Snipped from Jonathan Schwartz's blog most recent blog entry (COO of sun).
Another really interesting and growing community is the open source database community. There are some really
interesting(and rapidly growing) open source databases out there. Not many folks talk about them, curiously. The most
interestingto me are Red Hat's database <http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/database/>, known as Postgres, and MySQL
<http://www.mysql.com>.For the most part, those products lead the open source database world. What makes Red Hat's
databaseso interesting is that two of Red Hat's biggest backers are database companies, and the continuing evolution of
theRed Hat database implies as Red Hat grows, so will the ubiquity of a free alternative to Oracle and IBM. Maybe we
shouldchallenge Red Hat to a scalability contest on Postgres. Hm. Hey Matthew, what do you think? Let's find a neutral
benchmark.I'll wear a red hat if we lose. You can wear a Solaris t-shirt :) We might even provide the hardware.
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