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Observations by Kaj Arnö @Sun
« WANTED: North American MySQL Community Relations Manager
Worried about the FFII »

Will OS DBs oust Oracle & Co.?

In an interesting survey on COMPUTERWOCHE.de, the readership of this German IDG business periodical (141.000 decision makers every week!) is being asked “Will Open Source Databases oust Oracle & Co.?“. Right now, they’ve still only got 354 respondents, of which 42 % say Ja and 56 % say Nein. Interesting!

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