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by Tim DiChiara, Senior Site Editor
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Several weeks ago in this space, I highlighted Gartner's latest DBMS market survey and noted the surprising growth of Linux as an enterprise data management platform. In 2002, IBM led the Linux market -- a good thing, since they were almost betting the company on it. However, these latest data showed that Oracle has surged ahead, grabbing $207 million in sales and accounting for 69% of the
overall Linux DBMS market. Oracle is especially seeing huge increases in Linux sales in data warehouse environments. Ouch. The enterprise-scale Linux market is small and the war is not over yet, but Oracle seems to have won the first battle.
Several of you wrote in, indicating your perhipheral interest in open source software such as Linux and MySQL, but vowing never to leave more "industrial-strength" operating systems such as Solaris or DBMSs such as Oracle. However, here are a few articles we recently posted that discuss why some of your peers beg to differ:
Let us hear where you use open source software and where you'd never use it -- post your comments via our "Sound Off" feature on the pages above. I look forward to reading your thoughts!
Cheers, Tim
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600 DBMS tips and scripts
by Tim DiChiara, Senior Site Editor
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Looking for that perfect script that will make your life as a DBA
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right place. We offer over 600 Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, and SQL
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Featured Expert Mike Hillyer, Founder, VBMySQL.com
Category: MySQL
Mike Hillyer is the founder of VBMySQL.com, a popular site for Windows users of MySQL. He holds the MySQL Professional Certification and is the top ranked MySQL expert at Experts-Exchange.com. Mike has written several articles that have been featured in the MySQL newsletter and was a speaker at both the 2003 and 2004 MySQL User Conferences. Mike currently works on the MySQL AB documentation team.
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