It is hard to find anyone in the technology business who is prepared to argue that MySQL and Oracle really compete or ever will.

ECONOMIST: Oracle and Sun Microsystems

For one thing, it says, MySQL and Oracle's databases do not compete: the former is a relatively simple program used by many websites, while the latter is complex software that underpins corporate applications.

ECONOMIST: Oracle and Sun Microsystems

Just as cheap personal computers undermined the mainframe business in the 1980s and open-source programs like Linux and Mysql are challenging Microsoft and Oracle today, outfits like Fastcase are attacking Wexis' stranglehold on legal research from the bottom up.

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"Unlike IBM, Oracle and Microsoft, MySQL has never had 50, 000 features, but it does have maybe 10, 000 relevant features that are relevant to enterprises, " he says.

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Oracle is countering MySQL, Ingres and the like with its own low-cost programs and even a few free apps.

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For Oracle the threat comes from such outfits as MySQL and Ingres.

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