Comments on: Top 3 Mistakes when marketing software http://www.microisv.com/archives/2005/09/23/top-3-mistakes-when-marketing-software/ a community for independent software developers Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:02:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Ben Mc http://www.microisv.com/archives/2005/09/23/top-3-mistakes-when-marketing-software/#comment-11319 Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:37:18 +0000 http://www.microisv.com/archives/2005/09/23/top-3-mistakes-when-marketing-software/#comment-11319 This is interesting, but I've been using MySQL since its infancy stage, and I don't recall having White Papers, Case Studies, Blogs, etc, when it first started rolling. In fact, I just remember it being an obscure download that we were trying to get working with Perl to create a special database at the University of Idaho Law School for tracking technical issues. So maybe these are mistakes that only large, established ** open source ** / software businesses shouldn't make. I agree with their PR standpoint, and to not be over-religious. But the rest is excessive for a start-up - in my opinion. They had a GREAT product, free to download, rapid release and improvement cycles, and then phpMyAdmin came out - of which I think they owe a lot of their success. MySQL is still great today too. And 40,000 downloads a day?!?! Wow. True? This is interesting, but I’ve been using MySQL since its infancy stage, and I don’t recall having White Papers, Case Studies, Blogs, etc, when it first started rolling. In fact, I just remember it being an obscure download that we were trying to get working with Perl to create a special database at the University of Idaho Law School for tracking technical issues.

So maybe these are mistakes that only large, established ** open source ** / software businesses shouldn’t make.

I agree with their PR standpoint, and to not be over-religious. But the rest is excessive for a start-up - in my opinion. They had a GREAT product, free to download, rapid release and improvement cycles, and then phpMyAdmin came out - of which I think they owe a lot of their success.

MySQL is still great today too. And 40,000 downloads a day?!?! Wow. True?

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