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Once more there is a lot of heated discussion about what constitutes a “real” open source business model – that is, one that remains true to...

Three years ago, Tom Foremski wrote an interesting piece called “Adapt or die--the choice facing the open source movement“, which began: Can...

The announcement that one of MySQL's founders, Monty Widenius, was leaving Sun, was generally regarded as a pity, though no huge surpris...

News that IBM was buying Solid Information Technology, a company with close ties to MySQL, set off a distant bell ringing in my head in con...