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Late Mover Advantage

The Agile Manager

By way of example, at the time the internet travel booking business had a take rate of somewhere between 5 and 10% of the value of the travel services they were selling; intermediaries had a take rate of a tiny fraction of a percent of the value of the product order they were submitting. They were in a state of mutually assured destruction.

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The Ultimate Guide to Open Source Databases

Percona

Their work produces higher-quality code and enables faster innovation, while maintaining high security standards. Faster innovation Without prohibitive contracts and lengthy procurement processes, open source enables developers and DBAs to customize the source code and create new applications for addressing evolving needs.