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Credit Larry for being very good, cheap enough, and just enough lock-in.
But, there are a lot of transactions done by open source databases and it is growing. It would be interesting to know the percentage of transactions done by each database worldwide.
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Credit Larry for being very good, cheap enough, and just enough lock-in.  DonnieBoy | 11/19/08
Last time Gartner checked...  DanaBlankenhorn ZDNet Moderator | 11/19/08
But, is that 44% in terms of money, or in terms of usage?  DonnieBoy | 11/19/08
Who cares apart from you? n/t  markbn | 12/04/08
Ingres and Postgres  grimes | 11/19/08
TCO savings will drive more to open source  debwoods | 11/19/08
Slightly off-topic  LadyGray | 11/19/08
RE: Can database lock-in be broken  DanaBlankenhorn ZDNet Moderator | 11/19/08
RE: Can database lock-in be broken (YES)  alphaflack@... | 11/19/08
A more precise history  cbbrowne | 11/20/08
DBAs get very religious about Oracle.  peter_erskine@... | 11/22/08
RE: Can database lock-in be broken  medezark@... | 12/05/08

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