Synergies and Opportunities: Open Source and Commercial Vendors
Lukas Kahwe Smith (12/2006), Masters Thesis (en)
A study of the relational database market. Also published as a book-on-demand print version at http://www.lulu.com/content/516973.
Abstract
This paper analyses the influence of open source in the market for relational databases
(RDBMS). It examines primarily the economic but also in parts the legal and social
dimensions. In order to do so, it first gives an introduction to the theory of informations goods and open source. Following is an overview of the RDBMS market
and the SQL standards. The core of this paper is a series of case studies which illustrate how both individual developers but also companies are influenced in their
abilities by open source. The paper also features a number of email interviews with
members of several open source database projects. In this process it was discovered
that open source can assist developer in their career development. Companies on the
other hand profit from lowered transaction and development costs. Open source also
assists in building markets for complimentary products or even to undermine core
markets of competitors.
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