Interesting idea , in general is an good blog post

"I had invited a number of FOSS DB developers to a dinner last Tuesday
8 November 2005 opposite the NH Mörfelden hotel in Frankfurt (where
the OS DB conference was being arranged) to test the hypothesis
whether the ground is fertile to establish an Open Source Database
Consortium as a (formal or informal) vehicle of exchanging information
between FOSS DB providers, and as a body for the OS DB industry."

http://www.planetmysql.org/kaj/?p=31
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