SearchDatabase: Open Source Databases Climb Corporate Ladder

“Analysts are telling companies committed to open source
software that the time is right to consider an open source database
server. Vendors like MySQL and SleepyCat are adding more
enterprise-class functionality to the software, and that could
eventually threaten the hold Oracle, IBM and Microsoft have on the
market.

“Noel Yuhanna, a senior analyst for Cambridge, Mass.-based
Forrester Research, Inc., said most enterprises are now looking for
alternatives to database products supplied by the big
three–Oracle, Microsoft and IBM…”

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