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Former MySQL CEO Mårten Mickos Talks About Managing Remote Workers (Video)
Millions of pixels have been used to talk about Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer's decision to ban telecommuting and her reasons for doing it. Today's interviewee, Mårten Mickos, built MySQL AB into a billion-dollar company with 70% of its workers, all over the world, telecommuting instead of working in offices. Now he's CEO of another young open source company, Eucalyptus, and is following a similar hiring pattern. Mårten says (toward the end of the video/transcript) that he believes people working out of their homes is entirely natural; that this is how things were done for thousands of years before the industrial revolution.
Meaning our people at MySQL and now at Eucalyptus are like fishermen. They live in a fishing village and are very social together, but every morning before the sun dawns, they go out in their small boats to sea and they are all on their own, and they come back only when they have caught fish.
Oh, shut the fuck up, you spoilt, useless idiot.
Fishing - and I come from a fisherman family - is nothing like sitting on your ass providing code for a second rate DBMS for the "good enough" generation.
MySQL has nothing going for it. It is what you choose if you have neither the expertise to use a decent system nor the money to buy Microsoft's offering. MySQL was nothing more than the lucky seller of easy-grip shovels during the first Internet gold rush.