MySQL: A Business Parable

- Open Source, the IP always owned

- LAMP web stack, MySQL a de-facto standard (FB, Google, Twitter, Yahoo)

- dual licensing (consulting and support, T-shirts sale: uninteresting to VC)
- VC, looking for an "exit"

- Sun and then Oracle acquisitions

- Oracle "not a charity"

From the Open Forum Europe 2012 Conference, here.