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MySQL Used By Majority Of "AlwaysOn 100" Innovators
by Grant Robertson Jul 28th 2006
The AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford University wraps up today, but not before making a declaration of something many LAMP developers have known for a long time. The "AlwaysOn 100" honors 100 private companies for their technical innovation, customer adoption and market potential. This year's 100 innovators are comprised of a majority of companies that share one common characteristic, they all use MySQL in mission critical portions of the enterprise.
"When Joe Kraus launched the Excite search service in the early days of "Web 1.0", he estimated it cost around $3m to get the business up-and-running. Today, after founding JotSpot, Kraus estimates a Web 2.0 company can start up with an investment of around $100,000 (£50,000)"
[via Sourcewire]
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
