Hi,

Somebody put a mail on how Open Source databases compete with the commercial one's on this list a few days ago.

This story from CNN may add to the picture: http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/03/12/fortune.ff.open.source/index.html

Amol Hatwar.

It's most certainly GNU/Linux, and not Linux. Read more here: http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html