Guy Kawasaki interviews the CEO of MySQL

Guy Kawasaki has a fascinating interview with Marten Mickos, who has served as MySQL's CEO since 2001. The company is now the "second largest open-source software company" (behind RedHat, one supposes... and omitting Novell, which still sells proprietary software along with SUSE Linux) and is the fastest-growing database vendor in the world:

Question: What’s the biggest MySQL DB? That’s like asking what’s the biggest Ferrari! What counts is performance and scalability. Omniture runs over 250 billion transactions per quarter on a farm of MySQL servers. Google uses MySQL for AdSense and AdWords. Other large installations include Wikipedia, Travelocity, Weather.com, etc. The databases can be hundreds of gigabytes. Sites run on hundreds of servers, some on thousands... ...Even the Oracle FAQ runs on MySQL...

Guy Kawasaki: Ten Questions with Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL