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The Software Cartel’s Bane: MySQL and Open Source

The Software Cartel’s Bane: MySQL and Open Source. Database:. Generic data warehouses that are customarily designed by users to save information in an organized and useful way Data backbones for most industrial embedded software and web pages

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The Software Cartel’s Bane: MySQL and Open Source

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  1. The Software Cartel’s Bane:MySQL and Open Source

  2. Database: • Generic data warehouses that are customarily designed by users to save information in an organized and useful way • Data backbones for most industrial embedded software and web pages • Without robust database engines, e-commerce would not be possible

  3. Examples: SQL Server

  4. MySQL AB: • “Open Source” • Swedish firm founded by David Axmark, Allan Larsson and Michael "Monty" Widenius

  5. Thesis: Open source software, particularly MySQL, can and will dominate the software market in the near future.

  6. MySQL’s product is more valuable than its competitors’: • Free, or at the very least, extremely cheap • "Companies find the quality of mainstream open-source products like Linux [and MySQL] to be at least equal to that of commercial alternatives." (Kirkpatrick 92) • MySQL sells a competitive product significantly below market value.

  7. Open source software, such as MySQL, can produce profits: • Individual sales are small; however, the expenses involved are minimal. • Free labor • “Free” does all the selling MySQL needs • Revenues doubled to $12.6 million in 2003: second year in a row • Operated at a profitable basis at the end of last year

  8. MySQL’s competitors will loss their market share at this rate: • Open source software undersells other commercial software • Strategy: • Take every single potential customer away from the competition • Nickel and dime the masses that have downloaded MySQL • Microsoft, IBM and Oracle’s products are overpriced

  9. MySQL and other open source software providers will revolutionize and dominate the IT industry. MySQL will not necessarily bankrupt Bill Gates any time soon, but the once invincible database engine cartel has a new and powerful threat. The owners and customers of MySQL will prosper under the practice open source software.

  10. Works Cited • Darrow, Barbara. “Is MySQL Quietly Lowering the Odds?” Computer Reseller News. 26 May 2003. • Kirkpatrick, David. “How The Open-Source World Plans To Smack Down Microsoft, And Oracle, And...” Fortune. 23 Feb. 2004. • Langley, Nick. “Open source database advantages.” Computer Weekly. 25 Nov. 2003. • “MySQL Doubles Revenues Again; MySQL 5.0 Alpha Debuts.” Linux Gram. 19 Jan. 2004. • Organtini, Giovanni and Luciano M. Barone. “The REDACLE Work-Flow Management System.” Linux Journal. Feb. 2004.

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