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How This Startup Kicked Oracle’s A$$

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How did a small, open source software company from Finland capture billions in market share from Oracle? Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems , knows the answer and he delights in telling the story of how MySQL ate Oracle's lunch and dinner. A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. And Give Them A Prize.

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The Power Of Mouth To Mouth Marketing

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We decided to shake things up and take a risk at the biggest data management summit, attended by multi-billion dollar corporations, including IBM, Oracle and Informatica. Before lunch, we had received inbound inquiries from analysts, potential partners and prospects. We did not purchase tickets for the event. . Hey, you never know.

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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

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They’re going to eat our lunch anyways – let’s just cut our revenue to $1.5 billion in recurring run-rate revenue and growing while Siebel is sold to Oracle for a mere $5.8 There you have the innovator’s dilemma. The incumbents curse. You can’t take a $5 billion revenue stream and say “Fuck it.

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People Management: Startup Teams Should Dip but not Skip

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So I would go to lunch with our senior architect and ask 50 questions about the differences between Postgres , MySQL and Oracle databases. At my first company we went with Oracle because it had better handling of “ clustering &# at the time where we could have multiple instances of databases that we could keep synchronized.

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The Power Of Mouth To Mouth Marketing

InfoChachkie

We decided to shake things up and take a risk at the biggest data management summit, attended by multi-billion dollar corporations, including IBM, Oracle and Informatica. Before lunch, we had received inbound inquiries from analysts, potential partners and prospects. We did not purchase tickets for the event. . Hey, you never know.

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