Fortune Magazine Profiles MySQL AB

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday June 2, 2006 @04:35AM from the distributed-working dept.

hdtv writes "Fortune magazine profiles MySQL AB, a midsize company with a fairly large footprint. Fortune magazine popped in on another corporate party, which just happened to take place online across countries and continents." From the article: "'When a company is as spread out as this one,' Basil explains, 'you have to think of virtual ways to imitate the dynamics of what goes on in a more familiar employment situation.' That neatly sums up the broader challenge that many companies are confronting: how to nurture a bond among workers who rarely, if ever, meet. Few businesses are as spread out as MySQL, which employs 320 workers in 25 countries, 70 percent of whom work from home."

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Re:320 by Anonymous Coward · 2006-06-02 05:09 · Score: -1, Flamebait

I've been reading some of their source code over the past few days, and I'll tell you what they do: they spend hours upon hours making it suck as much as possible. 2-space tabs, reused variables, awkward constructs, 10-level-deep nested brackets (I felt sorry for the indent program, trying to fit everything into 80 columns)... it's horrible. And they didn't even fuck up where I needed them to - I followed a user-controlled unchecked buffer through 5 or 6 functions and by sheer dumb luck they never overwrote anything - I was crushed, I needed that buffer overflow.