Questionable if my first open source database to use would be Ingres or
Cloudscape , Maybe if they bundle Eclipse with Cloudscape ... who knows
I put myself as first time user of open source products (to choose from)

"But who are the vendors that are most likely to be accepted as
strategic partners by users? If you think about databases it is going to
be IBM (Cloudscape) and CA (Ingres) at the top of the list. And the same
will happen in the development (Eclipse) space. That's not to say that a
few of the pure players wouldn't make good, but it won't be the
free-for-all that some advocates of open source might like."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/04/open_source_databases_strategy/
Lot's of ms ads
http://www.it-analysis.com/article.php?articleid=12646&SESSID=27889bc4c62003ba38fa3a1e85af2a87

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Regards,

Marius - Linux admin