Kickfire is the MySQL Data Box for the Rest of Us

[ Thanks to Jason Perlow for this link. ]

"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..."

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