Maybe tech behemoths like IBM and Microsoft will add SMMPs to their comprehensive enterprise software offerings.
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Oracle dominates databases, with a 49% share of the market, more than that of IBM and Microsoft combined.
IBM, Microsoft and Whirlpool, is also working to improve connectivity between household devices.
Databases from Oracle, IBM and Microsoft are quickly adding all the features that perform sophisticated requests on multiterabyte data warehouses.
He has given talks to hundreds of major companies and organizations including IBM, Microsoft and the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank.
The enterprise collaboration space is busy with companies including Jive, Yammer and Moxie Software, as well as IBM and Microsoft.
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Using this framework, nine different companies were analyzed including Amazon, Google, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce.com, SAP and VMWare.
It was one of the first to market, but has recently been competing with outfits like IBM, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems.
To make the technology work, automakers are working closely with two of the biggest players in the computer industry, IBM and Microsoft.
As long as C-suite conservatism holds sway, stable giants such as IBM, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Cisco and Dell will hold the commanding heights.
The software Travelocity bought to perform this marketing trick was from neither Oracle, IBM nor Microsoft but from the little-known Teradata division of NCR .
Moreover, quarterly earnings releases for Q2 2011 from large tech vendors like Accenture, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle were all in line with our growth projections.
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Big and established players like IBM, Microsoft and EMC must contend with an endless army of feisty startups trying to redefine the game in their own interests.
Oracle dominates databases, with a 49% share of the market, more than that of IBM and Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) combined.
This campaign defined Apple as an outsider brand for artists, thinkers and rebels forever setting it up in a battle against comparatively stodgy IBM and Microsoft.
Signatories of the letter include IBM, Microsoft, Cargill and Oracle.
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Gates discussed Google, said that he sees IBM as Microsoft's biggest competitor, and addressed the prices of technology stocks as well as his role in and outside of Microsoft.
Oracle mainly competes with IBM, Hewlett-Packard in the hardware business, IBM and Microsoft in database and middleware software business and SAP in the applications software business.
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Within the technology sector I expect more interest in IBM and Microsoft, obviously multinationals, but very inexpensive properties with innate capacity for financial engineering, namely stock buybacks, rising dividends and fill-in acquisitions.
And Apple again has been a clear leader, trumping traditional tech companies like IBM and Microsoft, not only because of its innovative products but also because of its astute business model.
The Supreme Court first upheld a software patent in 1981, involving software controlling a process for curing rubber, and since then patents have become a vital bulwark protecting the assets of big companies like IBM and Microsoft.
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Thanks to acquisitions like BEA in 2008 and Sun Microsystems in 2010, Oracle has been able to double its market share in the past four years against competitors like IBM and Microsoft in the middleware market.
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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said he expects that emerging technology will not only help Oracle continue to widen its database share lead over IBM and Microsoft but will also inevitably lead to more-intense competition with specialized database players such as Teradata.
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With some functional similarities to the online data base jointly announced by IBM, Microsoft, and Ariba earlier this month, the Red Hat Network will serve as a central warehouse where developers can register information on their hardware and software systems, enabling other developers to better pursue joint projects.
In late 2002, Microsoft approached IBM about making the chip for Microsoft's rival game console, the (as yet unnamed) Xbox 360.
It competes with players such as Oracle, Salesforce.com, IBM, and Microsoft.
The Location Analytics product is directly integrated to standard business analyst tools such as IBM Cognos and Microsoft Office.
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