I can only talk about my own experiences, but given the pushes for cuts in costs open source is now being touted around some places as being the way to go, rega

I can only talk about my own experiences, but given the pushes for cuts in costs open source is now being touted around some places as being the way to go, regardless of best tool for the job. As I said, HMG is a very strange place and it's big too, so not everything will be the same, but I've seen a couple of projects in the past 12 months where people have come back and challenged the decision to go with things like Oracle DB versus MySQL and so on. Once you're getting accused of flagrant spending (worse than death in some bits of HMG) on licences, you tend to over-cut.