MySQL, an open software firm, has grown from a small $ 10 million company in 2004 in a successful $ 60 million business in 2006. As expected, MySQL caught the attention of the big three IT companies, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and. Actively defending their high income, $ 10 billion database business, the big three are implemented various strategies to combat their open source competitors. Details of these actions and is considering options for MySQL to store and growing business in an increasingly competitive and aggressive environment.
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by Robert A. Burgelman, Christof Wittig Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business 9 pages. Publication Date: October 16, 2006. Prod. #: SM124B-PDF-ENG
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