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The database market – currently at $18 billion a year (£12.3 billion) – will shrink substantially as the recession drives users to accept the open source message, according to open source database company Ingres.
Companies who now pay large software licence fees will finally make the move to open source software which costs a fraction of [...]

It seems like a bit of a mystery how open source software ever sees the light of day. The idea of a large number of people working for glory and the greater good rather than recompense seems too idealistic to be true.
In the early days this is exactly what happened, but now commercial companies have [...]