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MySQL Prepares To Go Public

Posted by kdawson on from the bring-it-on dept.

prostoalex writes "MySQL CEO Marten Mickos told Computer Business Review the company plans to go public: 'Now entering its twelfth year, the company has built up just less than 10,000 paying customers, and an installed base estimated to be close to 10 million... When it does go public, MySQL will be one of only a handful of open source vendors to do so. Red Hat, VA Linux (now VA Software), and Caldera (now SCO Group) led the way in 1999 and 2000...'"

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  1. Re:10,000 customers? by codepunk · · Score: 2, Funny

    You mean warts like not having to run a vacuum on the frigging database every week so it does not grind to a halt. I love the functionality of postgres but I don't see it as being no where near as fast or as stable as mysql.

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  2. Re:10,000 customers? by codepunk · · Score: 4, Funny

    Marten, he wants you to add table vacuum so we have to spend our weekends like we do on postgres running it just to keep the database from grinding to a halt.

    Nope, just keep doing what you do best...

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  3. Re:10,000 customers? by dfetter · · Score: 5, Funny

    No more ironic than that slashdot runs on the .org TLD, which in turn runs atop PostgreSQL.

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  4. Re:10,000 customers? by grcumb · · Score: 2, Funny

    In my own experience with free software, about 1 in 1000 downloads pay up. The large companies almost always pay. Small one man businesses sometimes pay. Europeans usually pay. Russians and Indians never pay...

    In Soviet Russia, YOU pay the customers!

    (Shit, I just made a Soviet Russia joke. Now I feel dirty....)

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