Companies need to stop thinking in terms of one or the other. It is not a situation of either (open source) or (a commercial database). This is just plain wrong. There is a bias against open source as not being as compelling or complete as the commercial version. |
Enterprise Java is hard to develop. These frameworks, they really help make it easier. It basically means that you have to write less code; it also means that you have best practices going forward. |
Open source is totally cool. |