MySQL Hits $50 Million Revenue, Plans IPO 124
An anonymous coward writes "MySQL, purveyor of the open-source database of the same name, is on the road to becoming a publicly traded company, bolstered by $50 million in revenue in 2006. "It's still in the pipeline," Chief Executive Marten Mickos said of the plan to hold an initial public offering of his company's stock. He declined to discuss when the company planned to go public, but said, "We're making good progress, doing all the things we need to get done.""
Check into this stock. This is not a pump-and-dump (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Capitalists = Evil (Score:2, Funny)
Free != Free
Re:interesting timing for an IPO (Score:5, Funny)
2. Profit
3. Fork MySQL
4. ???
5. Profit (again)
Sounds good to me
Re:Of Geese and Golden eggs... (Score:3, Funny)
You're suggesting that a for-profit business refuses to serve new paying customers... because they're 'n00bs'?
What is this, the Soup Nazi school of open source business?