"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 ...

IBM is attempting to lure Oracle database and middleware customers to “move up” to its own software with a new series of enticements, the company announced Friday. The offerings include a financial ...

Microsoft Thursday strengthened its hand in the database market by releasing the first 64-bit version of SQL Server. The product should help Microsoft address a broader segment of the database market, ...

DB2 9, an update to Big Blue's database due next month, heaps on features aimed at stealing market share. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He ...

On Monday the company made available a DB2 plug-in for Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control. This software, as its name implies, keeps watch over applications and services, gathering ...

Less than one week after rival Oracle Corp. put the finishing touches on its pending 9i database and set a shipping date, IBM Corp. on Tuesday detailed a forthcoming version of DB2 UDB (Universal ...

Clients using Oracle database and application server software running on Sun, HP Itanium, or previous generation POWER servers, can take advantage of a complimentary savings assessment, detailed ...

Oracle Data Vault has introduced support for collecting audit data from IBM DB2 for Linux, Unix and Windows (IBM DB2) and Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) database servers. Oracle had ...

IBM has surpassed Oracle as the leading seller of database-management software, according to a new study. IBM captured 34.6 percent of the revenue in the overall database market in 2001, up from 33.7 ...