In the database area, Ellison recently noted that a new generation of portable databases will allow multiple tenants to securely coexist in the same database while also offering full support for virtualization.

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On Tuesday, VMWare reported a 48 percent jump in revenue for the second quarter, a greater increase than expected, and raised its outlook for the full year on strong demand for its virtualization software.

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