http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/03/12/fortune.ff.open.source/index.html
And here's what Sun CEO Scott McNealy said in a February interview with
Computerworld: "If you want to save...money, make the default database
MySQL. It's free, it's bundled [with Sun's Solaris software], you've got
the whole open-source community working on making it better. If Yahoo
and Google can run their entire operations on MySQL, then certainly
there's a huge chunk of your operations that could run on it as well."
...
"I estimate we command 20 percent of the worldwide installed base of
databases," he says , "but of revenues we only command only .02 percent.
So there's a factor of 1,000." He laughs. "And we are making money.
People ask me 'What's wrong-why are you leaving money on the table?' We
say 'You should ask the other database companies what is wrong with
their cost structure."
(read more in article)
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/03/12/fortune.ff.open.source/index.html
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=57317&cid=0&pid=0&startat=&threshold=4&mode=thread&commentsort=3&op=Change
Lots of interesting discussion on Slashdot (read +4 and higher) talking
about MySQL, PostgreSQL and how they compares to proprietary databases.
Warren Togami
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