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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. In my humble opinion, this is advice young entrepreneurs cannot hear often enough.

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Announcing The Socaltech 50: Southern California's Up-and-Comers

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Daryl Bernstein , RightSignature (Santa Barbara, software). James Borow and Clark Landry (shared position), SHIFT (Los Angeles, Santa Monica, advertising). Holden Steinberg , Pagewoo (Santa Monica, advertising). Thorsten von Eicken , Rightscale (Santa Barbara, cloud computing).