The Inquirer: Open Source Databases Rounded Up and Rodeod

“You could be forgiven for not knowing about the storm of
activity in the database market this season. You would have to have
read several dozen articles, press releases, and have followed the
right bloggers to track all the strategic acquisitions, new
releases, and defensive posturing . And even so you might still be
wondering what it all means. But help is here in the form of a
guide to open source database companies and what they’ve been up
to.

“You may first wonder what’s so interesting about open source
databases. Isn’t all the open source fun and action happening with
Linux and Apache? Hardly! After many years of hard work and little
attention, these open source databases are starting to have a
noticeable impact on the largest database companies. Company
activity in the database sector is really heating up…”

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