[luau] News - MySQL: A threat to bigwigs?

[Warren Togami]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/03/12/fortune.ff.open.source/index.html

And here's what Sun CEO Scott McNealy said in a February interview with 
Computerworld: "If you want to save...money, make the default database 
MySQL. It's free, it's bundled [with Sun's Solaris software], you've got 
the whole open-source community working on making it better. If Yahoo 
and Google can run their entire operations on MySQL, then certainly 
there's a huge chunk of your operations that could run on it as well."

...

"I estimate we command 20 percent of the worldwide installed base of 
databases," he says , "but of revenues we only command only .02 percent. 
So there's a factor of 1,000." He laughs. "And we are making money. 
People ask me 'What's wrong-why are you leaving money on the table?' We 
say 'You should ask the other database companies what is wrong with 
their cost structure."

(read more in article)
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/03/12/fortune.ff.open.source/index.html

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=57317&cid=0&pid=0&startat=&threshold=4&mode=thread&commentsort=3&op=Change
Lots of interesting discussion on Slashdot (read +4 and higher) talking 
about MySQL, PostgreSQL and how they compares to proprietary databases.

Warren Togami
warren at togami.com