Re: Forrester: Ingres and MySQL Lead Open Source Databases

* Greg Stark:

> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Josh Berkus<josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>>
>> So in the case of analysts, it's a case of "can we influence this
>> analyst to produce a favorable report?  How much will it cost, and how
>> many people will it reach?"  Not an argument of "are analysts good or bad."
>
> Well, how much would it cost? Can you outbid Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM?

I think the general approach is to commission a few
independent/objective reports and then publish the most favorable
ones.  I don't think the reporting itself is strongly biased, it's
publication of the result.

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