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In the past five years, the database management system (DBMS) market has gone through major consolidation, with the three major vendors, IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft, dominating the market. Database license revenues will continue to grow at a modest pace through 2007, with maintenance revenue becoming the major portion of the business. Open source databases that continue to make inroads into enterprises will impact commercial DBMS vendors in the coming years, and they will likely respond by reducing prices. Even though DBMS technology is mature, opportunities for further improvement exist in integrated administration, end-to-end security solutions, automation, heterogeneous data synchronization, and integrated high-availability solutions. The future of DBMS remains one of healthy and continuing innovation, as enterprises keep building new applications and enable evolving technologies like RFID, XML, Web services, and content management. However, the focus of innovation is increasingly across the entire application platform, and the role of the DBMS in that is a more exclusive element of application infrastructure.

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