Jun 3
Ordered Chaos
A Fortune piece on the distributed company that is MySQL.
Few businesses are as spread out as MySQL, which employs 320 workers in 25 countries, 70 percent of whom work from home. (MySQL’s database software is open source. That is, it offers access to its software’s source code free and hopes in return to get its customers’ help in identifying and fixing bugs and creating new features.)
As the face-to-face world diminishes, managing technology-tethered teams effectively – as MySQL and the user-generated online encyclopedia Wikipedia do – might determine which competitor prevails.
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