Unlike the early years, when Oracle clobbered a series of older, entrenched rivals like Cullinet, its competition now comes from aggressive upstarts like Sybase and Gupta as well as a rejuvenated Informix.

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Like its male equivalent, the Solheim Cup is a biennial competition played between two teams of professional golfers, one from the US and one from Europe.

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When compared with its closest competition, a portable MP3 player connected to something like the Altec-Lansing inMotion speakers, the PSS110 is more convenient.

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Focusing its efforts to build a strong internal IT team amidst intense competition looks like a wise move.

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It doesn't look like the channel's beyond reality programming altogether, with its first two shows being a cooking competition named Knife Fight and its other being a celebrity-based travel show named The Getaway.

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Asked about the competition, Zuckerberg made it sound like his company was a decade ahead of its rival rather than the other way around.

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Despite its high-tech sheen, medicine looks a lot like some of the dinosaur industries that were upended by competition from unexpected sources: autos in the 1970s, for example, or mainframe computers in the 1980s.

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At the same time the stock seemed like a good buy partly because its shares seemed to be oversold, driven down by the prospect of increasing competition, a slight loss in market share and a Securities and Exchange Commission inquiry into revenue recognition errors.

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While the company has managed to beat out some Big Pharma competition like Pfizer thanks to its more diversified offering, it has been been challenged since 2009 by a number of recalls on products including Tylenol, Benadryl and Motrin.

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