> Wave of migrations expected
>
> PostgreSQL core team member Josh Berkus said that his organization
> will have the licensing edge over competitors, including Oracle, IBM,
> and Sybase, thanks to multi-core software licensing issues.
>
> "Unless those companies change their licensing policies, multi-core is
> going to increase the price differential between proprietary and
> PostgreSQL-based solutions, making PostgreSQL much more attractive,"
> Berkus said. "As a parallel, when Oracle increased licensing fees for
> the release of Oracle 10, we got a whole wave of Oracle-to-PostgreSQL
> migrations. I'd expect the same with multi-core.
>
> "The same price differential that helps us helps Linux, BSD, Apache,
> MySQL, FireBirdDB, and all other OSS competing against proprietary

Oh no, someone else took the Firebird name ... again!

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