The most appealing aspect of the Opensource movement has to do with creativity or should we like to be more precise, its Creative Economy. Opensource is a pure developer phenomenon, since developer communities gather around prototypes and turn up with solutions that are more custom – made than ever to target a specific problem. Chances are you will find a solution, you will use that solution, with the real logistics behind opensource being you ending up contributing some sort of resources back to it. But what happens when you start having IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun offering you their developer / database tools for free? The following newspost sums up the points in the arena so far…
Network Magazine India: Free for all Slashdot: IBM sets DB2 free The Register: Free the DB2 CRN: IBM Frees the DB2 CRN: Free Oracle 10g Express Goes Up Against SQL CRN: Solaris To Get PostgreSQL, XEN, ZFS In 2006 ZDnet News: IBM sets DB2 Free ZDnet News: Microsoft Launches long awaited updates ZDnet News: Oracle offers Free Database DBAzine: Oracle Database 10G Express Edition Microsoft: SQL Server 2005 Express