The importance of the Database industry
People talk a lot about the IT worls, but it seems that many times, the big % of people, forget to talk about one of the most important branches of the IT sector, the database industry.
The database industry has been since it’s begging an industry that was created more for the need to the consumers, than for the main idea of creating a profitable business. But now a days, things have changed a lot, making the database field a very competitive and lucrative business where the big players each year make billions of dollars thanks to the huge demand for their products, applications and solutions.
So who really uses Databases now a day? Well the easier question will be: who doesn’t produce database now a days! Database are used by government, profit organizations liek companies, , and non profit organizations. The database tecnnology has expand to many branches and services, including the medical field, the lawy, news technical, etc. Where ever you see now a days databases are present and play a massive and very serious role in everyday economy around the world. From a hospital, to the Army, to NASA, to the UN to Ebay. Databases rule the world and store all the info about us, about what we have, about our health, our criminal records, etc.
That’s why when we talk about the database industry we need to understand cleary that this industry is more than complex and it is just young, the real begginings where just a few years ago, and now we are witnessesin first row to be able to see amazing changes and challenges that this industry is going to tackle in the next years. From the open source solutions created by the community to the giants of Microsoft and Oracle, to the potential involment in the future of new players like Google, the database market is open and the market is hungry for faster solution, with more security and more flexibility.
