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This in depth review of Stanford's excellent course "Introduction to Databases" (covering XML, RDBMS, SQL, OLAP, and NoSQL) focuses on the FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) tools that are center stage throughout. In addition Stanford's new approach to OER (Open Educational Resources) is critiqued.