[lbo-talk] MySQL to go public

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jan 31 14:30:56 PST 2007


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



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