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	July 30, 2004 DBMS: Foundation Of Application Infrastructure But Focus Of Innovation Is Now The Entire Application Platform by Noel Yuhanna with Mike Gilpin, Kimberly Q. Dowling, Carey Schwaber

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Executive Summary

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• The DBMS Market Is Mature
• Open Source Databases Threaten Commercial DBMSes
• DBMS Environments Are Still Complex And Growing
• The Future Of DBMS

RECOMMENDATIONS

• Careful Planning And Implementation Remain Essential
• Supplemental Material
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