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."

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why why why

[stewie's deuce]

ok.. i quickly read throught the article, then i stopped to think: Why is this article here? What purpose does it serve?
Yes the article is littered with buzz words of the late 90's dot com boom, with sexless geeks up all night sweating/masturbating over code, but seriously. Is this to promote mysql? who gets the brownie points? But then why mysql, really?

i don't undestand mysql's popularity. Open source? yes. Free? hell no. Unless your in the open source business, this thing just costs money like any other commerical product. Forget about features/speed/open etc. none of that really matters, when from the corporate looking glass, its just another "$ per seat" database product.