Re: Survey...Please help and respond!!

DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote:

> > · Are there any general trends you see in the database market?
 

> Ingres is gone.
> Sybase is marginalized.
> Informix is marginalized.
> DB2 is being marginalized and won't be a serious player in 5-7 years.

You appear to be implying that the only "serious" database available by 2015 will be Oracle?

I note that although you make use of an Open Souce OS, you don't mention any of the Open Source databases out there, apart from Ingres which you erroneously say "is gone".

PostgreSQL, Firebird and MySQL are certainly contenders in the SME sector.

Where Operating Systems have gone, I think that Databases can only follow.  

> The above not intended to start a flame war ... just personal
> opinion.

Likewise.

Paul...

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When asking database related questions, please give other posters 
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The exact text and/or number of error messages is useful (!= "it didn't work!").
Thanks.
 
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