Why would a company like MySQL choose to give away the guts of its product - was it just a desperation move by its founders to differentiate it from its rivals? ![]() Here Mickos, now a senior vice president at Sun, talks with Josh Hyatt for the MIT Sloan Management Review, freely sharing his ideas about why this Internet-age version of a barn-raising produces superior innovation, what murky motivations keep all those developers devoted and why Leonardo da Vinci is the father of the open-source movement. He first met the company’s cofounders when they were all students (and avid poker players) at the Helsinki University of Technology. Mickos, a native of Finland, works in the company’s offices in Cupertino, California. (MySQL, whose high-profile customers include Facebook and Google, makes money by selling commercial licenses and by offering support and services.) MySQL’s collaborative community now consists of 12 million coders, who typically receive compensation that amounts to - in today’s dollars - nothing at all. Like such well-known proponents as Linux, the operating system, and Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, MySQL shares its source code for free, giving programmers everywhere permission to debug, add features or otherwise modify the product before redistributing it. acquired what is the world’s fastest-growing database vendor earlier this year for $1 billion. Mickos is referring to the fact that MySQL AB, the business he has built since 2001, has committed itself to “open-source” innovation since its founding in 1995 - with results successful enough that Sun Microsystems Inc. “Our secret is in the way we operate our culture, and I’m convinced others cannot imitate that.”Ĭulture is too vague a word. ![]() “Let them try,” he says brazenly of his competitors. Zelda will serve as the writer and co-executive producer on the project, which follows a group of high school students whose exploration of modern sexuality (devices and all) tests deeply entrenched beliefs about life, love and the nature of family in their conservative community.There are 12 million reasons why Marten Mickos isn’t afraid that his rivals in the database software industry will ever overtake him. "Generation" was created by Zelda Barnz, the 17 year old daughter of Daniel and Ben Barnz. Baratta is repped by UTA and Circle of Confusion. Rosenberg is repped by UTA and 3 Arts Entertainment. ![]() HBO Max is currently setting up a writers' room for the series with a 10 script order. Dana Baratta will also write and executive produce, with Denise Di Novi and Nina Tassler of PatMa Productions and Hoffman also executive producing. "Jessica Jones" creator Melissa Rosenberg will write and executive produce via Tall Girls Productions, her first project under her new overall deal with WBTV. The two sisters will become the revered, and sometimes feared, aunts in "Practical Magic," while their brother will leave an unexpected legacy. But the tumultuous times unearth the extraordinary discovery that they are, in fact, descendants of a bloodline of witches. Set in 1960s New York City, the series follows three troubled siblings - Franny, Jet and Vincent Owens - who wrestle with "abnormalities" that have kept them isolated.
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