Taking On the Database Giants
Rick Herman is awash in digital data. He's vice-president for business and legal affairs at Sony Online Entertainment. Herman has traditionally relied on one of the three main database vendors: Oracle (ORCL), IBM (IBM), or Microsoft (MSFT). But lately, he's doing a bit more shopping around.
It's not that the big three don't do a good job. There's a reason they have 85% of the $15 billion database market, notes Herman. But as you would expect in any market dominated by a few players, Herman is on the lookout for better prices and more flexibility to tailor database features for Sony's unique needs.
OPENING MINDS. Herman's search has taken him in an unexpected direction. Switching to an open-source database can slash costs for one of the most expensive segments of the software budget by as much as 90%. "If you had told us four or five years ago we would be considering these types of products at the rate we are, I would have looked at you like you were insane," he says. "But open source isn't going away, and I'm pretty excited about it."
So now Herman and executives like him are the spoils in what's shaping up to be a heated round of database wars.
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