Please read the article at this link.

What do you think? Is open source database a viable solution?

The link says (as quoted by Forrester) that the market share for

• Open source database is at $850 million
• Commercial databases is $ 16 billion

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If you are an ETL developer, you would be handling sources like Oracle, DB2, flat files, etc.

What if your source was a website? Or a Yahoo search result? And what if you could play around with multiple websites, blogs, flickr, custom searches… mash it up together, edit and transform it to create your own version of what you want to read.

Welcome to Yahoo Pipes!

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