Free for all

Posted by dcparris on Jan 22, 2006 10:31 PM EDT
Network Magazine India; By Kumar Dawada
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How do you react when database majors put profits on the back burner and start giving away their flagship RDBMS for free? Kumar Dawada goes behind the scenes and attempts to find method to the seeming madness.

[Ed: I disagree with the final analysis - "However, the open source industry does not have the finance or resources to sustain a prolonged and aggressive competition." The author has a limited and/or skewed understanding of the libre software development model. MySQL AB may go out of business, while the MySQL database continues to flourish. - dcparris]

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