SearchEnterpriseLinux: Why Open Source and MySQL are Winning Corporate Hearts

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"Many IT managers have told me that MySQL's rise is one of the big stories in 2004. Why are they saying that?

"Zack Urlocker: The idea of an open source database in the enterprise has now come of age, and open source databases--particularly MySQL--have matured at the right time. Linux started out on the enterprise periphery with Web applications and has now migrated into the core of the data center. MySQL is following a similar evolutionary path..."

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