Paul wrote:
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> "rkusenet" <usenet.rk_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Click here to read more about the increasing market share of open-source database
>>PostgreSQL.
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> You would swear from this article that there were no other vendors of
> db's other than Microsoft, IBM and Oracle.
>
> Where was any mention of Sybase? Pervasive? IBM's Informix offerings?
> Borland's Interbase? Someone must buy these products! What about MySQL
> and/or Firebird? MySQL is not free for commercial use - what's its
> market share? Pervasive have also started to support PostgreSQL, as
> has another springup (other efforts to make money out of PostgreSQL
> have failed), but companies can do it because of the FreeBSD licence.
>
> No mention either of any revenue streams for companies that have
> support contracts for any of the open source dbs.
Apparently you haven't noticed how some of us from have been pointing
out the fact that a Gartner Report is worth nothing except to Garnter.
The company sells its opinions on the same basis that politicians sell
their votes: To the highest bidder.
--
Daniel A. Morgan
http://www.psoug.org
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
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Received on Tue May 31 2005 - 12:10:28 CDT
