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Article: The 451 Group: Open Source Software Has Limited Impact on the Enterprise Database Market as Adoption Is Widespread but Shallow.
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- March 26, 2008
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New Report Analyzes the Adoption of Enterprise Open Source Database Software and Explores the Barriers Open Source Vendors Need to Overcome in Order to Increase Demand
NEW YORK -- The 451 Group found that open source databases have made their way into enterprise environments, and the use of open source database management systems is now widespread. But while open source databases have been widely deployed for Web-tier applications, there has been minimal adoption in the enterprise application tier. Adoption for enterprise applications is at this time limited to certain specific application workloads.
"Many open source proponents cite the database as an ...