http://www.navicasoft.com/Newsletters/February%202006%20Newsletter.htm
… virtually all of Google’s paid search runs on MySQL. In other words, the billions of dollars of revenue that Google achieves is balanced on the open source technology of a company less than one percent of its size. That distribution of revenues and profit is so astonishing that it gave me pause: In contrast to the dot com bubble, where Oracle and Sun made billions from Net startups that couldn’t find a sensible economic model, Web 2.0 shifts the revenues from the suppliers to the customer-facing entities.
Seemed interesting, but true - the revenues have shifted from the suppliers to the customer facing entities!
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