"Given all the various technology news in the last two weeks, it would have been relatively easy to overlook a press release from a small startup called Kickfire, which produces an appliance to run MySQL applications.
"Snore. Yet another dime a dozen appliance vendor, which will probably go belly up in a year. Who needs an appliance when we have easy enough to configure commodity Linux servers we can buy from Dell, IBM and HP, right?
"Wrong..."
