Re: Bad news for Open Source databases, acording to survey

On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 12:48:17AM -0400, some SMTP stream spewed forth:
> > > Here is an article saying open source databases will not make major
> > > inroads into large businesses during the next five years:
> > >
> > >   http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/datbus/article/0,,11969_796851,00.html
> >
> > What do you think this means for PostgreSQL in the large business arena?
>
> Not sure what it means or whether it is accurate.
>
>

"Open source database companies will not be able to compete with the price,
 performance, maturity, and functionality of the commercial vendors"

price?  A *free* product not being able to compete with the *price* of
a commercial one?  Sounds funny at least... is IBM going to pay us to
use DB2? B-)

.TM.
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