An interesting article by Marten Mickos, the MySQL CEO, on sandhill.com on how to build a successful Open Source business.
Posted by guenter at November 25, 2007 06:02 PMPay attention to "Get Rich Slow" and be patient ;-) Patience, alongside with listening to customers are the most important points - you can not exist without customers.
I think MySQL is more accepted OS DB than PostgreSQL because of the commercial background and marketing machine behind it. From my experience (playing/testing, one production PgSQL), PostgreSQL is technologically superior to MySQL (although the gap has been narrowed with latest MySQL versions).
Posted by: Alex at November 25, 2007 07:39 PM