MySQL CEO Interview

someonewhois writes "MySQL's CEO, Marten Mickos, says 'Open source & MySQL will rise, legal foes will fall', in a bold prediction that legal issues will continue to be ignored as a threat towards open source, and that software patents will harm the industry (well, duh)."

Comments

A little too bold....

[AtariAmarok]

He'd better watch it before Bill Gates makes him an offer he can't refuse, and he wakes up with a penguin head in his bed.

Re:A little too bold....

[dcrocha]

Bill: Marten, you do not yet realize your importance. You have only begun to discover your power. Join me, and I will complete your training. With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict and bring order to the database world.
Marten: I'll never join you.
Bill: I am your father.
Marten: No. That's not true. That's impossible.
Bill: Search your feelings you know it to be true.
Marten: Nooooo. Nooooo.
Bill: Yes I am.
Marten: Ok then.

YOU ARE INCORRECT, SIR

[Anonymous Coward]

Postgre and Firebird are toys.

MySQL is like the playmobile activity center you put in an infants crib, so that one day when he sees a real database he won't be too scared of it.

uh, Hemos..

[froggero1]

from the dept.

what department would that be exaclly?

Phew

[Bluetick]

And here I was expecting him to say "Hey, sell your shares, this company and this open source stuff is fucked." Well this is a relief.

Re:Geographic Information Systems

[GigsVT]

Moderations are stored in a MySQL database, which detects and silently converts moderations that are positive to ones that are negative, when they are attached to a message critical of MySQL.