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March 13, 2005
Oracle + Open Source sandwich
A funny title perhaps, until you look at all the details. An interesting piece was published a few months ago about Oracle + MySQL putting the squeeze on SQL Server. With the new announcement of Yukon scheduled for release this summer it will be interesting to watch it play out. I still maintain that MySQL, and other Open Source databases such as Postgres pose little threat to Oracle because they target different markets, Oracle is starting to make moves toward this entry-level market with it's new pricing scheme for 10g.
Posted by admin at March 13, 2005 05:37 PM
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Oracle has already topped out much of the high end market which is why they are moving toward the lower end. Well, that and they are hoping to lock users in before they try out open source offerings. They are already losing market to Open Source on the low end and PostgreSQL is only going to creep further up to the high end market, so essentially it's just a matter of time. Granted a long time... Microsoft has held on for 10+ years against Linux, and I'd say Oracle and IBM both have that kind of staying power, so it will certainly take a while, but eventually it will happen.
Posted by: Robert Treat at March 23, 2005 05:58 PM