InformationWeek > Open Source, Open Questions

InformationWeek > MySQL > Open Source, Open Questions is a recent article in Information Week profiling several companies, including Sabre and PriceGrabber.com, that have made the jump to MySQL.

An interesting spin in the article is:

Some companies find they outgrow MySQL. Fairfield Language Technologies, which develops Rosetta Stone foreign-language learning software, used MySQL to provide content to its Rosettastone.com and online language-learning centers, as well as to manage licenses of online customers. But the company recently decided it needed the scalability and server redundancy of Oracle's database-clustering technology. Fairfield will still use MySQL for several in-house applications, says Robert Bland, VP of operations, finance, and IT.

A sidebar to the story talks about CA's release of Ingres to the open source community. According to the article, they did it to "catch up" after a decade of neglect of the code base.