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Column: Why open source databases are ripe for acquisition in 2006

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Search Enterprise Linux; By Jack Loftus
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Analysts predict that the $300 million open source database market is going to continue to grow rapidly. Forrester Research Inc.'s analyst Noel Yuhanna projects that mission-critical deployments of open source databases will increase by 20% this year. It is that growth that Yuhanna believes will drive the OSS database market from $300 million now to the $1 billion mark by 2008. Most importantly, analysts say, this segment is being taken seriously by proprietary database vendors attracted to making open source technology part of their own product offerings.

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"Microsoft, it seems, is paying attention. It released a scaled-down open source database, SQL Server Express."

Quite a typo they've made here
Yeah... s/white/black/ and other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?

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