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The Ultimate Guide to Open Source Databases

Percona

In simple terms, an open source database is this: It’s a database with source code that is free and available to all. Their work produces higher-quality code and enables faster innovation, while maintaining high security standards. Synchronous replication supports high availability. What is an open source database?

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Late Mover Advantage

The Agile Manager

So pharma manufacturers were motivated to avail free samples of medicines to doctors. An intermediary couldn't crush the competition with customer love, innovation, tech firepower, or scale. Clearly, Fintech has had an impact: things like loan origination are far more efficient at banks today than they were just a few years ago.

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Lost Productivity or Found Hyperefficiency?

The Agile Manager

There is an alternative perspective that is far more optimistic : digital companies drive down costs through hyper-efficiency (speed, automation and machine scale) and price transparency. The argument for this invisible efficiency is that economic models have simply failed to change in ways that reflect this phenomenon.

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