by The biggest competitor of commercial databases is the customer himself.
What if the database customer in New York joins hand with customer
in Los Angeles thru the internet and starts developing their own
RDBMS database?
The result is PostgreSQL database. Millions of database customers
are developing this database. PostgreSQL may reach one billion
(1000 million) installations by year 2001 world-wide!!
Hello Microsoft, Oracle, sybase, informix: Remember that database
customer is also capitalistic. If many american database customers join
hands in internet than microsoft is in big trouble!!
Please read the following document at :-
http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Database-HOWTO.html
And mirrors sites are at :-
http://www.caldera.com/LDP/HOWTO/Database-HOWTO.html
http://www.WGS.com/LDP/HOWTO/Database-HOWTO.html
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/linux/LDP/HOWTO/Database-HOWTO.html
http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/ldp/HOWTO/Database-HOWTO.html
Other mirror sites near you can be found at
http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/hmirrors.html
select a site and go to directory /LDP/HOWTO/Database-HOWTO.html
I hope the information in the doc will be very useful for you. Please
feel free to pass on info those who may be interested.
al