...is trying to standardize as an alternative to the ODF that was spawned from the OpenOffice.org software, an open-sourcerival to Microsoft Office. "The approval of OOXML, for instance, is seen as crucial by Microsoft as a means of maintaining...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13580_3-9876090-39.html
...can easily handle nearly every type of database workload, with performance and scalability outpacing every other open sourcerival. As Los Alamos lab (who uses MySQL to manage their terabyte data warehouse) said, "We chose ySQL over PostgreSQL...
http://www.openwith.net/mysql_wp_inside50.pdf