Dvorak blesses Sun MySQL deal - sort of
Truly the Sun MySQL deal has been blessed with a great promise of success. John Dvorak says the deal stinks and no one in the business has a better track record of being wrong.
This is the man who said the iPhone would be a disaster and Apple should pull the plug... Yet it goes from strength to strength. He even made a fool of himself on CNBC on the matter - which of course 4 million folks and growing can watch on their iPhones here... Again on Apple he said in 2006 they where going to drop OS X for Windows - how everyone laughed and here we are 18 months later and Jobs ignored him and has taken market share every quarter.
There seem to be two camps regarding Dvorak, the kind ones who say he deliberately says the stupidest thing he can think of as it drives us all indignantly to hit his pages to read it for ourselves, and those who think its not deliberate and he just doesn't have a clue... Maybe there is a third camp but I've not found anyone who actually uses the words insightful or though provoking and Dvorak in the same sentence.
Back to Sun and MySQL, just about everyone seems to like this deal except John - and that is another ringing endorsement. Thanks John!
