Archive for January, 2008

Tear down this old wall, Mr. Yang »

Off late, the name Yahoo appears synonymous with depression and whatever can go wrong with a company. The top level reshuffling didn’t have the much needed impact and there are rumors (expectations?) about impending job cuts. If I were a Yahoo shareholder, I would be deeply frustrated with what is happening in the company. [...]

Sun acquires MySQL: Now what? »

The big news today is the acquisition of MySQL by Sun Microsystems. This is significant in many ways but I am excited that this deal debunks the myth that there is no big money in open source software. Sun has paid $1Billion for MySQL and it clearly shows how valuable MySQL is to the future [...]

The great Web 2.0 dilemma »

Deepak’s post on Information as a Service got me thinking. The discussion about Twitter’s business model (or lack of it) and the standoff between facebook and Robert Scoble made me dig deeper. These events and the nature of business in the Web 2.0 era raises a very important question, which I would like to call [...]