"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 ...

IBM on Wednesday released the latest version of its database management system DB2, version 9.7, with new features that include the ability for the database to run applications written for Oracle 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 ...

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 ...

Oracle, however, maintains that the research firm's measure of the database space warrants a closer look. IBM saw its overall 2001 database share grow to 34.6 percent of new licenses sold worldwide, ...

Despite fast growth by Microsoft Corp.’s SQL Server, Oracle Corp. kept building on its dominance of the database market last year, according to preliminary figures released yesterday by IDC (download ...