Is cost the only thing that is driving the interest in open source database management system?
Astor: Really, it isn’t just about cost. Frankly, the reason people give for going to open source is the quality and manageability they get. The quality of product that has been developed and quality assured by hundreds of thousands of people over the years is light-years ahead of what any other organization can produce. First of all, there is definitely a cost advantage, and second there is also a great quality advantage, while thirdly there is a new business model emerging within the open source community concerning databases. This model occurs when the community takes the code to a certain point where it is universally applicable and then a commercial organization arrives and adds value onto it. The organizations are taking open source databases and are then adding on top of that a value-add, as well as support. They are actually extending the product in such a way that it appeals to some broad segment of the market. How are attitudes toward open source changing? Astor: First of all
Really, it isn’t just about cost. Frankly, the reason people give for going to open source is the quality and manageability they get. The quality of product that has been developed and quality assured by hundreds of thousands of people over the years is light-years ahead of what any other organization can produce. First of all, there is definitely a cost advantage, and second there is also a great quality advantage, while thirdly there is a new business model emerging within the open source community concerning databases. This model occurs when the community takes the code to a certain point where it is universally applicable and then a commercial organization arrives and adds value onto it. The organizations are taking open source databases and are then adding on top of that a value-add, as well as support. They are actually extending the product in such a way that it appeals to some broad segment of the market. How are attitudes toward open source changing? First of all most importan
