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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 GMontag · · Score: 0, Troll

    Who are these customers, and why would they pay MySQL for a product that's not only free, but has better competitors available for free?

    Apparently they are customers who don't really need a database but they have employees who convinced them to spend money on a cutsie file system.

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