[via ITRmanager.com]

An interesting interview of Marten Mickos, CEO of MySql. Some facts and figures (interview in French):

• To reduce the dependency with Oracle, mySql is developing a substitution to innoDB. The project is called “falcon” and about 20 people are dedicated to this project. The first productive version should be available till end of 2007.
• The online game Second Life is based on mySql.
• Today, 300 people in 27 countries are working for mySql. About 150 are technical people (development, support). About 70% of the employees are working from home. About 30 people are working at the headquarter.
• About 10 million active users
• Simple rules for defining the community:

• 1 customer (paying for a service)…
• for 10 contributors…
• for 1’000 users