April 17, 2008
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For an executive who had just had his company bought for a cool billion a few months ago and was on the eve of announcing a major update to his business’ flagship database program, former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos, now … Continue reading
January 29, 2008
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Some people can’t believe Sun actually spent a billion dollars for MySQL; I can’t believe they got such a great deal. If you believe my long-time colleague John C. Dvorak, Sun purchasing open-source database power MySQL was “perhaps the worst … Continue reading
December 8, 2000
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IBM’s using Linux to deliver e-business on mainframes; may prove to be competition for Sun. Yesterday, IBM took a bite out of Sun by replacing Scandinavia’s biggest telecomm and ISP Telia’s Sun Web-hosting servers with a single IBM mainframe S/390 … Continue reading
September 1, 1990
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Did anyone else notice a few months ago when every food product in the land was advertised as “Light?” It didn’t matter a darn if there was any truth to their claims. Light was the new hype phrase and so … Continue reading