They have aggressively wanted to dominate the applications space for the past two years. Their aggressive moves to acquire PeopleSoft and Siebel have certainly put them in line with SAP this year in regards to...

The reason for mentioning this buy is the in-memory database, and how it will impact the industry in the future. The number of users accessing the database is growing, and the bottleneck is at disk...

In 2005, the industry witnessed great momentum around open source databases, from product enhancement, improved customer support and increased adoption to new vendors jumping on the bandwagon. Open source databases continue to make inroads into...

Oracle RAC has come a long way in establishing itself as a key technology in delivering unparalleled high availability and scalability solutions for Oracle databases. Forrester estimates that there are more than 1,200 customers who...

One of the key features for Oracle in supporting large databases is the partitioning feature, where you can break down large tables into smaller, virtual tables and make them easier to manage. Data partitioning has...

A lot of customers are going to be demanding that. It has to be seen if IBM and Microsoft are going to offer similar products at similar cost, or as part of their databases.

This was a very important and strategic move by Oracle, which is certainly good for them in long run.