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Computerworld Australia: The Database the Open Source Community Won’t Build

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“Has database vendor EnterpriseDB found the business model for
the next generation of open source companies?

“A week or so ago I was chatting with a friend about a meeting I
had scheduled for the following morning. I said I’d be speaking
with a guy whose company markets a commercial database product
built around open source software.

“‘Ah,’ my friend quipped, ‘a parasite…'”


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