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November 11, 2005
War of the Databases?
This zdnet blogger argues Ingres is the real threat and that a database war is brewing. There is real venture money behind this. What with Oracle buying Innobase, SQL Server 2005 newly out, and MySQL 5.0 now in production. But there also seems to be some excitement in the ERP space. At Openworld in October, Oracle mentioned Salesforce.com as a significant threat, but what about the Open Source Sequoia ERP? This newswire argues that Open Source ERP will drive Open Source database adoption. But the truth is that many of these open source apps can and will support Oracle on the backend, and I would argue as they scale will really require Oracle.
Interestingly there are other companies out there that are betting on Open Source for HA. That's a big question, and one that remains unanswered.
Posted by admin at November 11, 2005 09:25 AM