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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. amen by battery111 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think it's awesome when open source companies go public. It allows them to get enough capital to truly innovate, and help prove to the unbelievers that open source IS a viable, successful way to make outstanding software. I hope more open source companies continue this trend.

  2. Re:10,000 customers? by suv4x4 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm a Postgres user and shrug my shoulders as to why anybody would use something with all the warts of MySQL

    Don't you feel the burning irony of posting this on Slashdot, one of the more prominent MySQL users?

    While you're busy with your tiny holy war, people take MySQL for what it offers and builds useful services and sites with it, among those Google, Yahoo, Digg, Apple...