… itself, is by no means enough to have a successful business. There are two examples: First, the PBXT storage engine from… Open Source product MariaDB with raising popularity. But as a business they failed to attract paying customers and had to merge with SkySQL.  I name that a business failure (even though it is widely publicized as a “success…

… break up the monopolistic stranglehold IBM had on the computer business. The verdicts helped cut back on vendor/service lock-ins… Netscape.) We are now re-raising those old questions about business practices, in yet a different way. “History — know the past… who did not make it; but that happens with ‘traditional’ business models. Another history note: 100 years ago (in the US…

… interest in the past month hardly guarantees them any more business success than they had before they went open source (or open core). I would say that there have been 2 business successes in the MySQL space — MySQL AB itself because they could support/grow an open source community with a business based primarily on commercial/OEM proprietary licenses & Percona, which is…

… need much higher ratio of paying customers to be in business. The competition also matters – for many market areas there are…