Popularity Growing For Open-Source Databases (Information Week)

[Posted March 12, 2004 by corbet]

Information Week notes the growing popularity of free database systems. "Doug Heintzman, director of IBM software group technology strategy, disputes the notion that IBM is on the defensive about open-source databases. 'The marketplace decides which open-source projects are going to succeed,' not IBM or any other company, and IBM has a track record of heeding those decisions, he says. At the moment, it doesn't view open-source databases as competing for the same customers as IBM's DB2."

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