47% growth off that base is not really impressive, but I can testify that we are seeing increased demand for open source databases like MySQL. At any rate it would appear that Oracle is fighting a rising tide and that is evident by the slow down in growth for their database business, even though it’s worth pointing out that it is still a very lucrative business for them.
Open source shapes up as rival to Oracle | Tech News on ZDNet:
A Gartner analyst disagreed, pointing out that even though open-source software sellers like MySQL and Ingres did only made up less than 1 percent of the database systems software market in 2005, they showed a strong 47 percent growth.
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