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SearchDatabase: Open Source Databases Climb Corporate Ladder

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“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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