Many corporations think so.
They are afraid to take the risk, because they have heard open source databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL are weak in the areas of support, features and reliability. In fact, Great Bridge is preparing for a full-fledged assault on proprietary vendors' dominance of the database market, he said. In this question and answer interview, Cotton describes Great Bridge's support offerings and points out that PostgreSQL is becoming a more viable alternative to traditional options. Until now, open source databases have been introduced in departments. Businesses that need to run critical applications have been leery of going to open source because of questions such as whether they have support or not, and who they go to in case they have a problem.