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Chutzpah of the Week: Monty Widenius

Chutzpah of the Week: Monty Widenius

By Dennis Moore on November 2, 2009

According to Wikipedia, chutzpah is “the quality of audacity, for good or for bad”. The award for “chutzpah of the week” has a clear winner, and it’s only Monday! The winner is Monty Widenius. Here’s a guy who was significantly responsible for mySQL, but so were several others, not to mention the thousands of other […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged acquisition, Chutzpah, Database, Monty Widenius, mySQL, Open source, oracle, sell-out, Sun Microsystems

What we may/may not hear @ Oracle Open World this week

What we may/may not hear @ Oracle Open World this week

By Brian Sommer on October 12, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Watch for movement on these matters Last night, Oracle’s annual mega event, Oracle Open World, opened. This event draws some 37,000 people to San Francisco to hear, see and speak all things Oracle. With the keynotes starting in mere minutes, I thought I’d offer up my thoughts on what may or may […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Cloud, CRM, Current Affairs, erp, Fusion, Marc Benioff, Mergers & Acquisitions, mySQL, oracle, Oracle Open World, SaaS, SaaS and Beyond, salesforce.com, software as a service, Software Vendors, software. applications, Sun

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