Cost savings drive adoption in new web-based apps Coming on the eve of OSCON in Portland next week, Forrester has published a new report that estimates the current open source database market is $850 million, and that number will grow to $1.2 billion by 2010.What’s driving the growth? New web-based applications, portal applications. But Forrester says that every enterprise should now consider open source databases as part of its overall DBMS strategy in order to achieve significant cost savings. Forrester estimates that 80% of application requirements can be met using only 25% of the features and functionality that closed source commercial databases offer, which equates to about 60% of the feature set of a typical open source database. Therefore, open source databases are ready to support approximately 80% of business applications.This latest study by Forrester follows on a previous report earlier this week on adoption of open source in Europe. There’s also a web seminar available on the top 10 ways to reduce your enterprise database cost. Although the Forrester reports are not cheap, it’s good to see analysts publishing more studies in this area! Open Source