Marten Mickos Quotations

If it doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger.

There are specific situations where an existing database is too expensive, too difficult to maintain or is for some other reason nearing its end of life. That's where migrations make sense,

Red Hat is the grandfather... and all the rest of the open source companies are emulating their business model. It's important for people behind to see that there's a healthy business ahead.

We are now taking deals from those players, where before they got them for no apparent reason, ... Companies used to make a summary decision to use just one specific database product, and so they did, irrespective of the need. Today, they are more enlightened and more demanding, and they will use a legacy database for legacy applications and a modern database for modern applications.

We are not used in all the ERP stuff. We are adding those features, but we are not going to be running PeopleSoft applications any time.

Customers can try on the shoes before they buy them. The model just makes sense.

This is a relevant question. I would say the open-source community is waiting for an answer,

It's an important goal of ours to have strategic relationships with all the major platform suppliers. Specifically noteworthy, we have a desire to work with IBM. But people say, 'IBM has a database.' We don't see that as an issue.

It's good for open source it validates the value that open source provides.