[ Thanks to Jan
Stafford for this link. ]
“Oracle, Microsoft and IBM will respond to a flood of interest
in open source databases by slashing prices and ramping up
automation features, according to ‘DBMS: Foundation of application
Infrastructure,’ a market report issued by Cambridge, Mass.-based
Forrester Research Inc.“Proprietary database management system (DBMS) vendors are
beginning to feel the pinch from MySQL, Computer Associates
International Inc.’s Ingres and other open source DBMS vendors that
are attracting new customers with a low cost, no-frills
systems…”