"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 ...

Big Blue's Stop, Think, and Save program aims to lure Oracle customers facing 'high software costs,' 'uncertain' Sparc road map No doubt as a symbol of gratitude to Larry Ellison and friends for the, ...

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 ...

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 ...

As Oracle preaches to its customers and partners at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco this week, IBM is doing some counter-programming. Today, IBM launched a program to help Oracle’s ...

Oracle recovered ground in the worldwide relational database market last year to draw roughly level with IBM, thanks in part to Oracle’s strong performance in the fast-growing Linux segment, according ...

The race is on to fuse database software with analysis tools designed to help companies make business decisions. IBM said Thursday that it will soon release a new version of its DB2 database ...