"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

There's a story on CNet about IBM considering open sourcing DB2. While there are no immediate plans, IBM UK's director of information management software Chris Livesy has said that market conditions ...