Taking On the Database Giants

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A pointer from Slashdot: BusinessWeek has another spread on open source this week. Among them is an article about open source vs. the database vendors which focused on how businesses are looking to save money with open source (rather than using the source to innovate). From the article: "The databases work fine, but as data volume grows, so do the checks to Oracle, IBM, or Microsoft. Many users aren't clamoring for more features, and some don't even use the bells and whistles they already paid for. They would happily trade some to get their hands on the source code and a better deal." Disclaimer: that quote came from Sony."

 

IBM DB2 for free

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IBM is offering for free a version of its DB2 database called "IBM DB2 Express-C". The IBM DB2 Express-C only limits the hardware that the database can run on, but is otherwise identical to the full DB2 release.

I think this is not a real limitation compared to Oracle's free version. IBM says it is targeting students, small organizations and software developers looking to integrate a database into their applications.

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4 millions downloads sinse October for MySQL 5.0 & SUN offers Oracle for free

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MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, today announced its second straight quarter of financial profitability and another record year of enterprise sales wins and technical achievement.

With 4 million downloads since it launched in October, MySQL 5.0 is proving its relevance to open source developers and corporate enterprises alike. In 2006, we look forward to another great year of growth for the MySQL ecosystem of community users, industry partners and commercial customers."

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