Posted on Tuesday, June 27th, 2006 at 6:19 pm
“IDC believes these open source vendors could ultimately spur a fundamental change in the way that RDBMS products are priced and licensed.”
“Five years ago, open source databases were largely a free or inexpensive and flexible alternative to the advanced, more expensive enterprise Quintum VoIP access solutions: Integrated intelligence, nonstop call quality, easy remote management and lower TCO. databases, Oracle and IBM DB2. Today, Oracle and IBM have reached out to a wider audience with their own versions of free and open source databases.”
“Open source software vendors saw a combined growth rate of 47 percent compared to Microsoft’s 17 percent growth,” Graham said. “However, the OSS DBMS vendors grew at that rate on a base of less than $100 million, whereas Microsoft’s growth was on a base of $1.7 billion. So frankly, any comparison between the two needs to contain that caveat.”
