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Forrester projects growth in open source DBMS
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| Coming on the eve of OSCON in Portland next week, Forrester has published a
| new report that estimates the current open source database market is $850
| million, and that number will grow to $1.2 billion by 2010.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2008/07/forrester_proje.html
Maybe it's Sun that paid Ferrester this time around. In the past, Microsoft
paid Ferrester to publish anti-Linux papers.
Open-Source Support: The More You Know, The Better It Looks
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| What perpetuates this attitude towards open-source support? Judging from
| another recent study, this one involving nearly 1,000 European Union public
| administrators, it seems that the less one knows about open-source support
| and training, the more likely one is to complain about it...
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http://www.bmighty.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/opensource_supp.html
And Microsoft's persistent FUD on this is unlikely to help.
“Analysts sell out - that’s their business model… But they are very concerned
that they never look like they are selling out, so that makes them very
prickly to work with.”
–Microsoft, internal document
Recent:
Microsoft tried to be Open but failed. Miserably.
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| In a nutshell, they are saying that they will not sue "hobbyist FOSS users
| and developers" but they will sue FOSS distributors and enterprise end-users
| who fail to obtain a patent license from Microsoft. This is no bogey man. Its
| quite clear in the announcement, and the BSA is pretty active in Malaysia,
| not hesitating in sueing end user companies.
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| [...]
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| Here was a golden chance for Microsoft to gain some precious goodwill with
| the Open Source Community. Instead they botched it up just like they did
| before, again and again, cementing their reputation as the biggest and
| baddest anti-FOSS company in existence today.
|
| How many other companies out there have such a anti-FOSS policies? Which
| company can be so unfriendly to their end users who prefer more choice? Why
| threaten when you should coax?
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/05/microsoft-tried.html
Shill season
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| It's often difficult to figure out the motivation behind a particular
| study - until one finds out who has commissioned and paid for it.
| The so-called tech consulting companies would love it if the consumer
| believes that they have conducted an "independent" study. The worrying
| thing is that not many people blow their cover.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/8109/1090/
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