I received an invitation in my email today for an upcoming ">CIO-only MySQL webinar. I thought it was interesting because of the audience for MySQL (not to mention the fact that MySQL is clearly cutting into my OSBC territory :-).Open source is proven in the enterprise. Many of the world's largest organizations, including Yahoo!, Sabre Holdings, Cox Communications, The Associated Press, Google, Nokia, and Nortel I received an invitation in my email today for an upcoming CIO-only MySQL webinar. I thought it was interesting because of the audience for MySQL (not to mention the fact that MySQL is clearly cutting into my OSBC territory :-).Open source is proven in the enterprise. Many of the world’s largest organizations, including Yahoo!, Sabre Holdings, Cox Communications, The Associated Press, Google, Nokia, and Nortel, are realizing significant cost savings by using open source products to power web sites, business-critical enterprise applications and packaged software. But, it’s not just the largest enterprise companies that are implementing open source. Many companies are evaluating an open source stack as an alternative or complement to proprietary solutions from companies like Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle. Savvy CIOs in modern enterprises are exploring the use of an entire enterprise open source software stack known as LAMP…. If you are a startup exploring the LAMP stack, or a mature company that needs to understand the business implications of implementing the LAMP stack, this presentation is for you.I’d be interested to know if Oracle has presentations like this, or Microsoft. (I’m not being sarcastic.) They may well have webinars to discuss open source with their CIO customers/prospects. I imagine the way the information would be presented would differ…but it would be interesting to compare. Anyway, here’s the MySQL information: WHO: Zack Urlocker, EVP Products, MySQL AB WHAT: Developing & Implementing an Open Source Strategy web presentation. WHEN: March 29, 2007, 10:00 am PDT, 1:00 pm EDT, 17:00 GMT (the presentation will be approximately 45 minutes long followed by Q&A) Open Source