Subject Does Oracle have a demographics problem?
Author marius popa
It does mention several open source databases (firebird included)

by ZDNet's Paul Murphy -- "Oracle likes to hire people in their late
twenties or early thirties who combine attitude with some sales
skills, but do you know anyone in that age bracket who doesn't work
for Oracle and nevertheless favors the company's database products? I
don't."

http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=358

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