No arguments with your conclusions, but “you only have to look at the comparative revenues of the open source and proprietary vendors” — that’s apples to oranges. Many of the open-source systems have no revenues at all. There may not even be a good metric to compare PostgreSQL to Oracle, but revenue certainly isn’t it.

Comments on The 451 Group’s Database Report & Red Hat’s 4Q revenue…

I want to thank Matt Aslett & The 451 Group for being brave enough to publish this report on the impact of open source databases on the DB market. An excerpt: “One of the key findings is that open source software has had a superficial impact on th…

[...] All of which explains why I’m surprised that anyone is surprised by the 451 Group’s report on the impact of open source on the database market. The word choice is controversial and surprisingly harsh (Matt calls it a glass half empty) from the perspective of open source database vendors, but I find little to argue with in its assessment of current market conditions: One of the key findings is that open source software has had a superficial impact on the enterprise database market in that adoption has been widespread but shallow. While open source databases have been widely deployed for Web-tier applications, there has been minimal adoption in the enterprise application tier, and adoption for enterprise applications is at this time limited to certain specific application workloads. [...]

[...] The 451 Group just published a “glass half empty” assessment of the open-source database market. One massive takeaway? Open-source databases are widely used, but not yet deeply used. One of the key findings is that open source software has had a superficial impact on the enterprise database market in that [...]

[...] 451 CAOS Theory » Open source database adoption: widespread but shallow - One of the key findings is that open source software has had a superficial impact on the enterprise database market in that adoption has been widespread but shallow. While open source databases have been widely deployed for Web-tier applications, there ha [...]

[...] Certainly these were the findings of our survey of executives responsible for database purchasing, details of which were published in our recent CAOS report “Turning the Tables? – The impact of open source on the enterprise database market” (more details here). [...]

[...] 451 CAOS Theory » Open source database adoption: widespread but shallow - One of the key findings is that open source software has had a superficial impact on the enterprise database market in that adoption has been widespread but shallow. While open source databases have been widely deployed for Web-tier applications, there ha [...]

Don’t look back…

While I was on my way to the Open Source Goat Rodeo gathering in Utah, Bill Snyder, another blogger over at InfoWorld, posted a story called “Open Source Databases: The 97 Pound Weakling?” Despite the odd headline, Snyder’s post has a few interestin…

[...] the open-source database market is still relatively small (roughly $200 million in 2007, according to Gartner). But when The Wall Street Journal starts paying [...]

[...] the open-source database market is still relatively small (roughly $200 million in 2007, according to Gartner). But when The Wall Street Journal starts paying [...]

[...] the open-source database market is still relatively small (roughly $200 million in 2007, according to Gartner). But when The Wall Street Journal starts paying [...]

[...] the open-source database market is still relatively small (roughly $200 million in 2007, according to Gartner). But when The Wall Street Journal starts paying [...]

[...] 451 Group just released a report on open source DBMS adoption. In a blog post announcing same, Matthew Aslett wrote (emphasis mine): you only have to look at the [...]

[...] is doing pretty well with DB2 as it stands, thanks very much, and open source databases have had minimal impact on the established [...]