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Open-Source Databases MySQL, PostgreSQL, Adoption Rising
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| Open-source databases MySQL and PostgreSQL are gaining steam, but
| rip-and-replace situations where MySQL and PostgreSQL replace Oracle
| Database, IBM DB2 or Microsoft SQL Server databases remain rare.
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Database/Open-Source-Database-Adoption-Upswing-Continues/
Rightscale Partners with EnterpriseDB for Powerful Cloud Management and Open
Source Database for the Enterprise
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| RightScale, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced a
| partnership with EnterpriseDB, the leading provider of enterprise-class
| products and services based on PostgreSQL databases. The partnership will
| allow RightScale to integrate EnterpriseDB Postgres Plus and Postgres Plus
| Advanced Server database templates with its cloud management platform for
| extremely scalable, high performance database applications for Amazon Web
| Services customers.
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/7/prweb1130424.htm
“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:
Linux: Who got it right, who got it very wrong?
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| Open-source software, once derided as the unsupportable and unreliable work
| of hobbyists, has secured itself a place at the table of many a large
| enterprise, although in ways that were different than many expected even five
| years ago.
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| By promoting a culture of transparency and forcing independent software
| vendors and service providers to add value in new ways, open source can be
| lauded for shaking up an industry that was ripe for a change. Instead of
| thinking in terms of market domination and customer lock-in, the industry is
| now prepared to work for its lunch — and to respect the customers' desire for
| a better option, whether it's open source or otherwise.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/software/soa/Special-Report-Linux-Who-got-it-right-who-got-it-very-wrong-/0,139023769,339288936,00.htm
http://tinyurl.com/5vslb8
PC deal could save public sector billions
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| Suffolk told Gartner, “I think we have fundamentally failed on a worldwide
| basis as an IT industry to understand the cost of what we do. And I roundly
| blame Gartner for this, because you guys are the ones who come up with TCO
| [total cost of ownership] benchmarking. It has become a self-fulfilling
| prophecy.
|
| “So, I go out and I pick boring desktop infrastructure. What price do you
| think the suppliers broadly pitch? You will not be shocked to know that it is
| somewhere around the Gartner TCO benchmark.”
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/03/31/230047/pc-deal-could-save-public-sector-billions.htm
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