The Beautiful Game

re: The Beautiful Game

zylQoBjJKEfNjc — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:32:18 GMT

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MySQL Conference & Expo

Port 25 — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:24:05 GMT

It's going to be a busy couple months in the open source industry, with a number of influential conferences convening over the next six months to discuss the latest issues, advances and topics facing OSS. More on those later, but I wanted to get something

re: The Beautiful Game

Bryan Kirschner — Wed, 02 May 2007 20:15:23 GMT

Stephe -

You're absolutely right this is written from the "player's" perspective and the customer's would read differently. With that said, as a "customer" of football, I prefer to watch beautiful competition rather than grinding , relentless focus only on winning. The former often involves risks and spectacular results (both pro and con!) for the risk taking team--while the latter includes things like "playing for the tie" for 2/3s of the game. Brazil's nat'l team is a good example of the former (I won't name names for examples of the latter :) ). I would submit MS & MySQL in the instant case are not "playing for the tie" with both attendant risks and potentially more than 0-sum payoffs for the customer.

regards,

MySQL e Windows - "um Jogo Bonito"

Good News and No News: Cezar Guimarães — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 04:59:39 GMT

Recentemente fiz alguns posts sobre os esforços de interoperabilidade entre MySQL e Windows . Para a

re: The Beautiful Game

norberto — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:44:35 GMT

Stephe 1 - 0 Bryan

MySQL on Windows: A Beautiful Game

Port 25 — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:49:07 GMT

This morning, a guest blog from Gerardo Narvaja, Senior Sales Engineer from the MySQL User Conference...... In Bryan’s article he used the metaphor calling the coopetition between Microsoft and MySQL the “beautiful game”, or like the Brazilians like to

re: The Beautiful Game

stephe — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:37:05 GMT

Morning: <a href="http://asay.blogspot.com/2007/04/interoperability-meme.html">Matt's comments</a> aside, the football metaphor doesn't really work. You're thinking like a player (i.e. a vendor employee) and not a customer.

The football customer goes to see the competition -- it's what they're paying for. A customer in the IT world just wants a solution. And to a certain extent, economically, from the /customer's/ perspective it is a zero sum game -- every dollar I spend on /this/ solution I don't get to spend on another solution.

Small thoughts.