[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“Getting Fortune 500 companies to adopt open source would be a
lot easier if open-source advocates put their business hats on.“That was the message from some Sun Microsystems and MySQL
executives at the MySQL users conference here. Swedish company
MySQL develops open-source database software and is making inroads
into markets primarily dominated by companies such as Oracle, IBM
and Microsoft.“During a keynote speech Friday, Rick Cattell, deputy chief
technology officer of software at Sun, said that offering great
software doesn’t guarantee success in the big-business
market…”