What has happened to the Open Source Database Consortium?

A while ago, people from the major Open Source database systems have met to form the Open Source Database Consortium – that was in October 2005.

OK, that’s not that long ago, but I hope that the ambitions to co-operate aren’t over again. It was told that a website will be created at www.osdbconsortium.org.

There’s nothing to see except a “Just a web page” note. I haven’t heard any news about this since October – I believe, it would be nice if MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird etc. could do some things together. That would certainly be more welcoming than any deal with a proprietary database vendor.

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