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Open Source Soaks Database Market

Stock quotes in this article: RHAT , EMBT , CA , ORCL , IBM , MSFT  

Open-source database software, once a curiosity, is becoming a force in the $13.8 billion market.

Ingres, MySQL and a handful of other open-source providers accounted for license, maintenance and subscription revenue of $100 million in 2005, an increase of 47%, according to a report by Gartner analyst Colleen Graham.

Although open source is still a tiny fraction of the total market, it is growing much faster. The relational database market as a whole grew by 8.3% in 2005 to $13.8 billion. ...

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