Why Public Database as a Service is Prime for Open Source Distribution

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Explores how major cloud DBaaS offerings and vendors’ shift to managed services have driven incompatibility, reduced portability, and higher costs, creating “Not Really Open Source” (NROSS) problems. Presents trends in the database market and proposes ideas and approaches for restoring true open source distribution and providing users a portable, transparent alternative to proprietary DBaaS.

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