The Ups and Downs of MySQL AB

Posted by Hemos on Saturday October 15, 2005 @03:25AM from the pick-the-battles-to-fight dept.

Wannabe Code Monkey writes "Forbes has an article about a recent MySQL deal with SCO and the reaction from the open source community: "It's been a rough week for Marten Mickos, the chief executive of open source database maker MySQL AB. First his most dreaded rival, Oracle acquired a company that supplies a key piece of MySQL's software, a move that could make life difficult for Uppsala, Sweden-based MySQL, which has the most popular open source database. If that wasn't bad enough, Mickos is being denounced as a traitor by noisy fanatics in the open source software community because last month he dared to make a deal with SCO Group, a company reviled by fans of Linux and other open source software.""

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Re:Some truth to it by div_2n · 2005-10-16 04:07 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Let me ask my boss . . . oh wait--that's me! I make the IT decisions. The CEO and CFO either agree to pay for it or not. They do not question my decisions since that would be micromanagment. They hired me for my expertise. Since replacing MySQL with Postgres costs . . . nothing, there is no discussion to be had.

Nice troll though. Good luck flipping those burgers.