That's a good post from Brian, can't believe I haven't see it yet. Thanks for sharing. > seems pretty prescient given the glut of open source we find ourselves

That's a good post from Brian, can't believe I haven't see it yet. Thanks for sharing. > seems pretty prescient given the glut of open source we find ourselves enjoying today. Indeed, even regarding databases: [from blog post] > Yes, there have been traditional demand-side efforts like MySQL and research efforts like PostgreSQL, but neither of these “good enough” efforts has actually been good enough to compete with Informix, Oracle, Look at PostgreSQL today -- it's got a variety of indexing options, scalability improvements and various other things. It hasn't displaced Oracle but it's certainly not a research effort anymore.