SQL Server has Beaten Back the Open Source Threat
In a column looking at the major trends for the SQL Server community in 2007, Kevin Kline argues that open source databases, particularly MySQL, no longer pose the threat to SQL Server they did two years ago. The honeymoon with open source is over, he writes, and Microsoft has won back mindshare with the release of the free SQL Server Express. While MySQL and other open source database platforms have their supporters, there is no reason to believe that companies will institute widespread migrations from commercial databases to open source databases.