MySQL AB has a strong position as the first mover in the open-source relational database (OSRDB) market. Although still a small company, it has become a serious challenger to the Oracle, IBM and Microsoft dominance of the relational database market. It has not done so with a better and cheaper product, but rather by redefining what a relational database is; in doing so, it has found new uses and new users for this technology.
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