Excellent point, I have rewritten this slightly and sent
a copy to Robin Bloor, a friend of mine who actually is the
CEO of Bloor Research. It will be interesting to see what
the response is :-)

Regards
Paul

> "That means that at some point in the future the market will consolidate
> and a number of these products will disappear."
>
> Clearly, the author doesn't know what he's talking about. Open source
> databases don't rely on traditional market economics to survive. An
> important benefit of open source is that projects can be supported by
> their user community; there is rarely reliance on the vendor for
> survivability.
>
> Thus, open source projects can and most often prosper well beyond any
> vendor's life.
>
> My take: If you're going to pick an open-source database, the project
> community is a critical factor -- more important than vendor support.
> That's why I would not chose Ingres (CA). Contrary to all other
> databases mentioned, Ingres has not yet shown a sustainable user and
> developer community outside of CA itself.