"IBM DB2 is only popular on mainframes...which is only used by your father!" That was Oracle Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison's response to a report that Big Blue's database-management software is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Big Blue isn't sitting still while Oracle buys Sun: instead, it's ensuring it builds Oracle compatibility into DB2 via a partnership with EnterpriseDB. Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who ...

Joe Clabby of Clabby Analytics compares and contrasts offerings from IBM, SAP and Oracle for the purposes of analyzing Big Data databases. He cites DB2 BLU's data compression technique and its ...

In Silicon Valley, there's no fiercer competitor than Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison. Now he stands on the brink of swallowing the corporate data center whole by acquiring Sun Microsystems in a ...

Oracle, however, maintains that the research firm's measure of the database space warrants a closer look. IBM saw its overall 2001 database share grow to 34.6 percent of new licenses sold worldwide, ...