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SearchOpenSource: Why Open Source Databases Are Ripe for Acquisition in 2006

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 23, 2006

[ Thanks to Peter Parker for this
link. ]

“The courtship of open source database vendor MySQL by Oracle,
as well as MySQL’s rejection of those advances, is only the
beginning of another interesting year for databases.

“Analysts predict that the $300 million open source database
market is going to continue to grow rapidly. Forrester Research
Inc.’s analyst Noel Yuhanna projects that mission-critical
deployments of open source databases will increase by 20% this
year…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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