DB2's pricing structure offers a straightforward per-processor pricing model, while Oracle charges licence fees for unlimited users, does not distinguish between full time and occasional users and ...

IBM on Wednesday released the latest version of its database management system DB2, version 9.7, with new features that include the ability for the database to run applications written for Oracle and ...

Evan Walters, president and CEO of Innovative Information Solutions, a Waterbury Conn. IBM partner, said he expects Oracle to eventually integrate its own database and applications server with the ...

The database wars of the 1980s and 1990s were painful and bruising affairs that saw a once abundant vendor market pared down to just a handful of contenders. While Oracle and IBM firmly established ...

Why does Google need another database, and why in particular does it need to introduce a version of PostgreSQL highly tuned for Google’s datacenter-scale disaggregated compute and storage? It is a ...

Larry Ellison still yearns to make Oracle the biggest software outfit in the world. That will only happen if he can capture something that has eluded him: a killer applications business. Larry Ellison ...

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