Interesting article:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nf/20021023/bs_nf/19752

Currently IMAGE does phenomenal amounts of heavy lifting.  Should we
succeed in making IMAGE open source, we'll have to educate database experts
like Mr. Claybrook.  He makes a good point in his statement about the
difficulty of switching once you've made substantial investments in a
database.

Excerpt:

'Claybrook also said it is difficult for open source products to gain
ground in the market for large, mission-critical applications in major
enterprises. "When it gets down to serious, big-time database uses, I don't
know of any open source [database] that comes close to Oracle or DB2," he
said.
He added that once companies establish a large database with a costly
proprietary system, it is hard to abandon that investment. "If you've been
using Oracle for 10 years, it's damn hard to switch out," he said.'

Frank Gribbin
Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP

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