Oracle vows fight as EC objects to acquisition of Sun Nov 10, 2009
Sun, meanwhile, has built up the leading open source databases -- which are now able to support similarly large-scale commercial databases running to hundreds of computing gigabytes in size. Oracle, IBM and Microsoft together control about 85 percent of the database market in terms of revenue, according to the EU.. (Yahoo! Asia News)
Schwarzenegger chides wife in Oracle cameo Oct 16, 2009
Sun, meanwhile, has built up the leading open source databases -- which are now able to support similarly large-scale commercial databases running to hundreds of computing gigabytes in size. AFP. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
* Oracle touts promised Sun takeover Oct 13, 2009
Sun, meanwhile, has built up the leading open source databases X which are now able to support similarly large-scale commercial databases running to hundreds of computing Gigabytes in size. This story has been viewed 230 times. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Users nervous about Oracle's acquisition of MySQL Sep 15, 2009
His firm has begun looking at other enterprise-scale open source databases such as EnterpriseDB's Postgres database in case it has to replace MySQL.. Standing to reap a harvest from unease about the Oracle-MySQL pairing are open source database vendors EnterpriseDB and Ingres. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
SaaS and Cloud Computing in 2009 Feb 11, 2009
Between in-memory databases, open source databases, and column-based data bases, that old stalwart RDBMS is starting to look at little long in the tooth. It looks like 2009 could be the year of some serious root canal for the RDBMS vendors. (Datamation)