Re: MySQL to go public
On Jan 31, 2007, at 5:15 PM, Colin Brace wrote:
[In an earlier thread Doug questioned the economic viability of the open-source model. The mySQL database is ubiquitous; anyone can download and install it from numerous repositories, no strings attached. Yet the Swedish company has on the order of 10,000 paying customers.]
Web 2.0 has come with Bubble 2.0. It’s a lot less dramatic than the
first, but no one still has any damned idea how YouTube is going to
make a buck.
Doug