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November 05, 2007 (Computerworld) –
Oracle Users Embrace Open-Source
Systems
At next week’s gathering of Oracle aficionados at OpenWorld in San
Francisco, Ari Kaplan, president of the Independent Oracle User Group in
Chicago, will present some interesting data about open-source usage culled from
the group’s annual survey of its 21,000-plus members. He says one thing
is certain: Open source continues to gather momentum among members. About 13%
of the survey respondents said that in 2007, the “majority” of
their companies’ applications were running atop open-source tools such as
Linux, Apache and JBoss, vs. 9% last year. However, while a vast majority of
Oracle sites also ran apps that use open-source databases such as MySQL,
Postgres and Oracle Express, Kaplan points out that “they’re tiny
by comparison.” That is, 81% of those open-source databases were a puny
1GB to 50GB in size and mostly used in noncritical environments, whereas Oracle
databases average between 500GB and 1TB and are vital to a company’s
business. Although Kaplan expects open source to continue to make inroads into
Oracle sites, he doesn’t foresee them displacing mission-critical Oracle
deployments. “They’re three to five years ahead of open
source” in technology, Kaplan concludes. He cites Oracle 11g’s
ability to compress data within a database and its Database Vault and Audit
Vault tools that support compliance initiatives
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