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Re: Open Source Database Management Systems: What the Pros Use
Posted by: Jack M. Germain 2007-04-30 05:45:06

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Databases have been a tool for business and research analysis since computers replaced typewriters in the workplace. Once the domain of proprietary database management programs, database development is now seeing more influence from open source programming. Several industry surveys show a trend among small- to mid-sized businesses at least trying open source database programs. Those survey results show a growing satisfaction in open source databases along with an expanding adoption rate.

Re: Open Source Database Management Systems: What the Pros Use
Posted by: Roy Grubb 2007-05-06 22:02:05 In reply to: Jack M. Germain

I've been using Firebird in an information management product (Topicscape) for a couple of years. It works well as an embedded database, and in the server version. When we reported a problem with special characters (accented letters), it was quickly fixed by the developers. It's very robust - we did a lot to try to break it during our initial evaluation.

Re: Open Source Database Management Systems: What the Pros Use
Posted by: 360view 2007-04-30 05:51:53 In reply to: Jack M. Germain

The next challenge for open data source to closely couple Data to business intelligence and that's what Oracle is doing currently i.e. presenting consistent, correct and complete market data to add value to business.