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Microsoft’s position on MySQL

Ronald Bradford
January 31, 2011

While Oracle provides no official information they are planning on improving MySQL and using as a product to compete with Microsoft SQL Server, it is rather obvious from what little information you can glean from public announcements this is a clear business goal.

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Microsoft, Yahoo and Open Source

Ronald Bradford
February 9, 2008

There has been plenty of press this week regarding Microsoft making a bid for Yahoo. This week the Wall Street Journal Article From Uncertain Future To Leading Yahoo Bid has prompted me to the following observations.