Sun’s Allan Packer (author of Configuring and Tuning Databases on the Solaris Platform) has published a lengthy and fascinating blog post on the future of proprietary databases in which he discusses the likelihood of MySQL, PostgreSQL et al challenging Oracle, IBM and Microsoft.
Packer’s multi-part post covers a number of areas including:
Feature Stagnation In The Traditional Database
Market
License Costs: the Soft Underbelly of Proprietary
Databases
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