O’Reilly Radar: Why I Joined the MySQL Board

“As some of you have probably already noted, I recently joined
the MySQL board. There are a couple of good reasons.

“First, MySQL has a unique position at the juncture of two of my
abiding interests, open source and Web 2.0. As I wrote in the quote
that I provided for the press release: ‘The platforms powering the
Web today are the enterprise infrastructure of tomorrow. What we
learn from those platforms is the enormous power of open source,
open standards, and user involvement… and one more thing–that
the future belongs to data. Every killer app on the Internet is a
database application. And that makes MySQL the ‘Intel Inside’ of
the next-generation of computer applications…'”

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