Dataquest: Open Source Databases Won’t Fly

“….I believe open source database systems will serve to
provide the means to run pilot projects, teach people, as well as
for relatively small projects. They will be wonderful in these
cases, where one would not want to use a heavyweight commercial
system: where a flyswatter would work well, a cannon would be
disastrous. Besides, it would be vastly cheaper — it always boils
down to the money, I am afraid. And now, I must find myself a bomb
shelter.”

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