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05/23/2007, 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Speaker:
Marten Mickos, CEO, MySQL.
Marten Mickos will discuss the range and evolution of open source business models, their strengths and weaknesses and whether it will be the large, proprietary incumbents or smaller but growing open source companies that ultimately have the most defensible business. How should customers and investors evaluate the long-term prospects of open source companies? What actions can be taken to ensure the freedom of open source while still maintaining growth and profitability? Can independent open source companies thrive in such an environment? Examples will be used from the history of MySQL as well as other open source products.
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