Railroad Barons, Conclusion? by Josh Berkus

"I bet Lewis Cunnigham that within 10 years of this post, open source
software will dominate the database market. Particularly, I'll bet
that by November 19th, 2015:

1. At least 60% of all revenue in the database market will
come from support, services, and bundled applications attached to open
source, shared source, freeware or hybrid databases;
2. At least one major proprietary database vendor among the
current top four (Oracle, Sybase, MS and IBM) will go out of business,
open-source their main database system, or convert entirely to bundled
freeware licensing;
3. At least two-thirds (measured financially) of applications
vendors, integrators and hardware vendors will offer official support
for one or more open source database systems, and at least one in ten
will support open source databases exclusively.
4. At least one company whose primary emphasis is an open
source database or related services, or one division of a larger
company devoted to an open source database, will report more than $200
million in revenue (or the inflated equivalent) for the year."

http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/database/soup/archives/006598.asp?rss=1


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