SearchOpenSource: Why Open Source Databases Are Ripe for Acquisition in 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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