Fortune Magazine Profiles MySQL AB

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."

Comments

Re:yes.. quite the model company

[castoridae]

Assertions:

Nerds make good software engineers.
A defining characteristics of nerds is that people don't like them.
Nerds are people too.

Conclusion:
Nerds don't like other nerds, and are happier with distance between them.

Re:Ha

[neonprimetime]

where would perl be if Larry Wall had not been "lazy" ?

If Larry Wall wasn't lazy, he probably woulda created Perl to be more like Python

Parthenogenesis?

[Tackhead]

> He is also wary of hiring "young men without a wife or a girlfriend or a dog or parents. They are at risk because they can get so immersed in their job that it drives them crazy. We don't want the type who read e-mails on their way to brush their teeth. They need a life."

I can understand existing without a wife or girlfriend. (This is Slashdot.)

But without parents? The last young bachelor who claimed to be the product of parthenogenesis wound up nailed to a tree.

These days, that's bad for business. Can you imagine trying to explain it to his HMO three days later?

Wowsers

[goldaryn]

"Few businesses are as spread out as MySQL, which employs 320 workers in 25 countries, 70 percent of whom work from home."

That's a lot of employees! They need an Oracle db! ;-)