How to be a disruptor
I just stumbled upon an excellent article where Marten Mickos (CEO of MySQL) gives some tips about how to become a disruptor in the software industry. Here is a short summary, though, as always, I recommend reading the whole interview.
- Follow no model: At MySQL, [...] we took our cues from other industries
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By gigiduru, 1 November 2007 @ 9:01 pm
Indeed, MySQL is a disruptive technology. It actually disrupts my DBA work with all of its crashes, data and table corruption, fragile relay logs and binlog corruption, sub par optimization for sub-queries, lack of built-in transaction storage engine etc.
Do you want me to continue?
Actually this guy Marten, either is not in touch with reality, either gives his best shot trying to justify his yearly salary. I’m inclined for a blend of the two motivations.
Challenging the enterprise software establishment?! I almost pissed my pens laughing.
By Master, 2 November 2007 @ 11:14 am
Gigiduru,
Thanks for your comment. I respect your opinion, though I completely disagree with you. It seems MySQL is not the database for you, so maybe you should choose a different product instead of criticizing it. And as long as it is free I don’t think you can blame them for cheating you, bluffing about what their product can do.
I also disagree with your opinion on whether Marten is in touch with reality or not. He is leading a company that:
a) is following a completely different model than their well-established competitors
b) is duplicating their income every year
c) is about to go public
d) has a product being used in some of the most critical environments
I do think he has something very interesting to say.
By gigiduru, 13 November 2007 @ 5:46 am
“d) has a product being used in some of the most critical environments”
I wonder what exact is your opinion on how an enterprise environment should look like. And also I wonder how many hour do you spend daily trying to keep on leash this puppy/dumb kid (MySQL rdbms). Honestly, I don’t think you know what you’re talking about.
You’re so right, if I’d be able to, I would start porting all the applications to postgresql, which by the way it’s also a free product, it’s not lead by a company and yet it’s a better product.
The thing the really bothers me it’s the halo created around this piece of crap, promoted by the MySQL AB marketing team which seems to be the real geniuses group in that company, not the engineers. After all, it takes a lot of brains to twist peoples’ minds in such way that tells them how much a crappy piece of software can do for them in the enterprise environments.
Yes, you’d tell me that NASA uses mysql for all kinds of applications, that Google use ONLY MySQL for their mountains of data… but oh boy, devil is in details. Google, as well as Yahoo, use MySQL in such way that all those machines are DISPOSABLE. When I interviewed for yahoo, I started to have headaches hearing in what way they are using those machines. Where’s the data consistency, data integrity, quality assurance, the vision how to construct a real road map for the product and also how to implement all those planned features? Did you try to use triggers in production without getting memory leaks? Where’s the real solid product that GUARANTEES your data is there?
I literally feel sick when reading MySQL website about so many smart people’s opinions, wasting time and energy on a toy. I think that’s why it’s so popular – it provides something to tinker with.
Get real.
P.S. If it goes public, I wouldn’t miss any opportunity to buy some shares. Given its popularity, it’s really worth it to make some money on some sucker’s expense. And please, get real.