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Jason Perlow
Jun 6, 2008

“In an earlier post I talked a bit about a start-up called
Kickfire who are releasing an accelerated database appliance for
MySQL applications in the 1TB-3TB range that gives comparable
performance to an equivalent Oracle RDBMS setup for around a
quarter of the price.

“Kickfire sounds compelling for utility LAMP computing
applications that need to be fast and cheap, but it
doesn’t address ultra-scalable and cheap, at
least not yet…”

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