BUSINESS: Some figures about mySql

[via ITRmanager.com]

An interesting interview of Marten Mickos, CEO of MySql. Some facts and figures (interview in French):

• To reduce the dependency with Oracle, mySql is developing a substitution to innoDB. The project is called "falcon" and about 20 people are dedicated to this project. The first productive version should be available till end of 2007.


• The online game Second Life is based on mySql.


• Today, 300 people in 27 countries are working for mySql. About 150 are technical people (development, support). About 70% of the employees are working from home. About 30 people are working at the headquarter.


• About 10 million active users


• Simple rules for defining the community:


• 1 customer (paying for a service)...


• for 10 contributors...


• for 1'000 users


• Goal: to bring 90% of the Oracle functionalities for 10% of the its price


• Future of the software industry: hybrid model with commercial and open source components.


• Open Source: this is a production model :-)

Tags: open source - mysql - oracle