However, another user was more keen on the idea of an NT-free server environment running an Oracle database.
Yes, but for now MicroStrategy's tools (which can run on an Oracle database) allow more detailed analysis of big databases (see box, p. 68).
Korea Telecom replaced an Oracle database with Hadoop after a five-year project to support 17 million telephone subscribers, 7.2 broadband subscribes and 15 million mobile users.
For all its success, for instance, Oracle Japan sells its databases through other Japanese software houses, which continue to charge for their services (now packaged with an Oracle database) on a fixed-price basis.
Oracle has cut costs, refocused its energies and, earlier this year, replaced its worn-out flagship product, the Oracle 6 database, with an industry-hailed Oracle's culture, like Ellison himself, has transformed itself: It now focuses on developing long-term partnerships with customers rather than attaining market share at any cost.
Shippers enter their product and destination data on the Open Harbor interface, which then cross-references the information against an 8-million-line Oracle database, updated daily, of export rules, documents and taxes for 64 countries.
Microsoft saw the Raw Iron announcement as an attempt by Oracle to offer another competitive database to Microsoft's SQL Server.
They have resurrected an aging Oracle foe--Ingres, which uses database technology developed 32 years ago by two Berkeley scientists--to target Oracle's biggest source of profit: the steady, high-margin fees it charges for regular upgrades and support.
Pittman hopes to sell product licenses to companies and institutions that need help mapping their mountains of structured data, such as an Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) database, as well as unstructured data such as e-mail and instant messages.
An example of an application that does not work well in a simple cloud environment is a shared database, such as the typical Oracle database application, where the information is one big block of data that needs to be manipulated all the time by many computing processes and where access to the shared data needs to be synchronized and managed.
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