“The open source software [OSS] blogosphere has taken its eye
off attacking Microsoft for a few days to focus on a recent
BusinessWeek article that predicted a 2007 initial public offering
for MySQL. The significance according to OSS partisans is the way
it indicates that OSS is taking over information technology to the
exclusion of all other software development/business models and
user choices. The significance to investors is that Red Hat, as the
only significant pure play OSS provider that is already public,
will act as a guidepost to establish MySQL’s valuations. OSS will
probably suffer on both counts…”
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