It seems that Oracle took notice, too.
Aaron Swartz,/a> showeed me a responce an Oracle marketroid made to an ICANN list:
PostgreSQL, like many other open source database products, has been in the market for many years with very little adoption. Unlike the open-source operating system market, the open-source database market has been unsuccessful due to the complexity of customer requirements and sophistication of the technology needed.... While there is a place in the industry for open source software. It will be many years, if ever, that an open source database matches Oracle's database technology for the availability, standards support, performance, manageability, security, application support, and stability that most real-world business applications require.
I found the quote from an
ICANN blog (http://icann.blog.us/2002/09/23.html#a763). Here is the original
post (http://forum.icann.org/org-eval/gartner-report/msg00000.html).
talli
