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Silicon.com: Should Oracle Fear Open Source?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 27, 2006

“Oracle continues to dominate the database software market but
challenges lie ahead from open source, analysts say.

“Research companies Gartner and IDC both predicted continued
growth in worldwide sales of relational database management
systems, or RDBMS, software, which enables data to be stored,
manipulated and retrieved. They also said companies’ need for data
warehousing will remain a main source of increases in that
market…”


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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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