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IBM (kind of) explains its investment in EnterpriseDB

Matthew Aslett, March 26, 2008 @ 11:22 am ET

IBM has got back to me with a terse response to some questions I posed following its investment in EnterpriseDB earlier this week (sample Q&A: Q. Is the investment a response to Sun’s acquisition of MySQL? A. No). What IBM does not say is in fact as revealing as what it does say, however.
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Open source database adoption: widespread but shallow

Matthew Aslett, March 26, 2008 @ 10:30 am ET

Today sees the release of our latest CAOS report, Turning the Tables? – The impact of open source on the enterprise database market, which examines - as the subtitle suggests, how much of an impact the open source database projects and vendors have made on the traditional relational database market.
One of the key findings [...]

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