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How Support is different from the Car Insurance
02/14/2009
When I was working for MySQL some people liked to compare MySQL Support to insurance, say car insurance to...
Wikipedia for daddies
02/10/2009
Wikipedia is a great resourse for dads of curious kids. My kid asks a lot of questions and he...
Competition and Open Source
02/05/2009
I’m hearing some people think we at Percona are in unfair competition with Sun/MySQL. Indeed Sun and MySQL invest millions in...
Living in the Glass House
01/31/2009
The modern business is highly confidential. Companies have the deals which never become public, employee may have special conditions...
What if houses were cars ?
01/28/2009
What if people would treat houses same way as we treat cars – meaning you purchase the car, often...
Salaries in a Virtual Company
01/25/2009
One big challenge in a Virtual Company with people working from all around the world is setting the Salaries....
On Dell R900
01/18/2009
We recently got Dell R900 box to use as a benchmarks so in addition to looking remotely to a...
Winter in Bay Area
01/12/2009
There is no winter in Bay Area…. no Winter as in Russia with its snow or Winter with it...