[ Thanks to Cosmo
Lee for this link. ]
“The start-up company came out of nowhere, building a
database application beloved by vibrant, young Internet companies.
Logging in from homes scattered around the globe, its workers
seemed more a part of a virtual commune than a corporate monolith,
and they relished taking on proprietary software giants like
Microsoft.“But like most open-source companies, MySQL’s sales, tied to
support deals, never matched the astronomical number of downloads
for its product, about 60,000 a day. In January 2008, the founders
decided to sell the company for $1 billion to Sun Microsystems. And
this year, Sun agreed to sell itself to Oracle, which makes
database software aimed at larger companies and tougher jobs, for
$7.4 billion.”
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