Re: [GENERAL] MySQL gets $19.5 MM

Dennis,

> MySQL AB is going 'toes up'? Or was that a 'what if'?

That was a "what if".

My point is simply that:

Given: MySQL Project is completely dependant on MySQL AB
Given: MySQL AB is a small company.
Given:  MySQL AB has demonstrated near-catastrophic bad business
    decisions in the past (i.e. NuSphere).
Given: MySQL AB just received $19 mil in venture capital, which the
     funders will expect a large return on -- and promptly.
Given:  Even well-managed small companies are frequently subsumed by giant
        software corporations.
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Conclusion: MySQL users should be worried about what might happen to MySQL,
the project, in the future, based on what happens to MySQL AB.   And they,
like SAP-DB, should be prepared to fork the GPL code.

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-Josh Berkus
 Aglio Database Solutions
 San Francisco