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MySQL at Ten Years

by Blane Warrene

If anyone missed this letter to the MySQL community from its founders, David Axmark and Michael “Monty” Widenius, earlier this month prior to OSCON - it is worth a read.

Certainly after a decade MySQL has racked up serious credibility, an impressive distribution count and some high profile users.

Undoubtedly MySQL’s reputation is largely proven by our own use - however - it helps to gather some marketing material if you are pitching solutions that include it. Take note that some of your customers may be totally comfortable at the idea of licensing MySQL commercially for support based on sophisticated deployments.

Letter from August 2

This entry was posted on Sunday, August 14th, 2005 at 9:04 pm, contains 106 words, and is filed under Open Source. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. The views and opinions in this blog post are those of its author.

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  1. doug05257 Says:
    August 19th, 2005 at 1:37 am

    A little over ten years… wow. MySQL really is popular, and I thank you for providing that link to the letter, which I had missed.

     
  2. Michael In Alaska Says:
    August 19th, 2005 at 12:37 pm

    Where can I download MySQL from?

     

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Blane is a writer and researcher focusing on Apple and Open Source technologies. Prior to this, he helped found a commercial software and consulting venture, and worked in the financial services sector as a director of technology and in varying technical roles. Blane maintains Open Sourcery: SitePoint's Open Source Blog.

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