The recent takeover of Sun by Oracle poses serious questions on how the software database landscape will look in the coming months. Retailers are one of the largest customers of software database products and Retail CIO's ought to be pondering this question. Would Oracle keep MySQL as a low end offering (less than a terrabyte) ? Will it use MySQL to effectively compete against Microsoft's SQL Server ? Or would it take the extreme step of buying and burying one of the most promising products from Opensource? Here is an interesting article that analyzes these questions and more ...
http://www.storefrontbacktalk.com/e-commerce/analysis-oracles-sun-acquisition-may-have-little-retail-impact-initially/
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