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Friday March 27, 2009

[ Business ] Microsoft Takes Note of MySQL

In a Financial Times report today about RedHat's quarterly earnings, Sam Ramji of Microsoft takes note of MySQL and its influence as a key component in the general move towards open-source software:

Larger deployments of open-source to firms that already run the technology in a small way might be the most that happens, due to the fact that recessions make IT managers worry about risk. For the same reasons, a recession is not the time to switch a workforce to a new technology.

Microsoft is counting on that, while accepting that every leading company will soon be running at least some open-source software.

“It’s a heterogeneous world,” said Microsoft’s Sam Ramji. While Microsoft continues to warn about the legal and economic perils of relying on Linux and similar systems, Mr Ramji’s role is to make sure that open-source programs already in use can work in conjunction with Microsoft software.

That way, just because a company is using the MySQL open-source database, it will not feel compelled to put it on top of the Linux operating system. By some measures, that defence is working well – Mr Ramji said 56 per cent of MySQL instances were running on Windows.

Then again, the easier Mr Ramji makes it for IT buyers to economise by putting open-source in more places, the more they will do just that and undermine his business in the longer-term.

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Comments:

good , but i think Mr.Sam Ramji (microsoft) is sentiment ! its true over 56 per cent use mysql in windows, but now 46 per cent run as open source OS (such as a linux,solaris ,..) . if we look up past in 2 or 3 years we see how many developer or people use open source software . i dont say linux is better then windows .
but this is truth the opensource software is grow in past years. many company force to immegration to opensource software and microsoft undestand this issue !!

Posted by Y.SH on March 27, 2009 at 01:19 PM PDT #

Yeah right. 56% of MySQL installations on Windows? Not sure about that one. 1) it's coming from a microsoft employee, 2) in my experience and all of the other MySQL DBAs that I know - we use linux for 99% of the production/staging/development MySQL installations. 3) MySQL runs significantly slower on windows as compared to Linux.

Posted by themattreid on March 28, 2009 at 06:04 PM PDT #

Matt -- Thanks. It is for this reason that credible reporting rarely uses anonymous sources :-)

Posted by M. Mortazavi on March 28, 2009 at 10:44 PM PDT #

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Posted by Y.SH on March 29, 2009 at 03:38 AM PDT #