"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Database habits die hard. Just ask Oracle, which continues to rake in billions in database revenue despite being one of developers’ “most dreaded” databases, according to Stack Overflow’s 2021 survey ...