Salesforce's Oracle database dependence: Can it open source its way out?

Jun 07, 2013, 10:00 (0 Talkback[s])

Salesforce has been increasingly looking into PostgreSQL, an open source database, and hiring people who could provide some alternative to Oracle. The rationale is clear: Salesforce needs to diversify away from Oracle's databases and potentially rearchitect for the future.

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