Last June, Dell and Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) announced that Dell would resell licenses for Oracle's 9i database and Linux clustering technology.

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For larger warehouses the competition comes from Oracle's 9i database and IBM's DB2, and these have the advantage of running on machines from IBM, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard that are familiar to big businesses.

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