Posted on Tuesday, June 27th, 2006 at 4:45 pm
The overall database market grew 8% last year to $13.8 billion, with Linux and Microsoft SQL Server seeing the strongest momentum, according to new research. Linux was by far the fastest-growing database platform, growing 84%, according to newly released Gartner numbers. The open-source database segment grew 47% over the year, said Gartner analyst Colleen Graham. Many companies — including IBM and Oracle — field Linux databases, but these are not, strictly speaking, open source.
