He leads fellow Oracle alumni at Ingres, a database maker that aims to undercut Oracle with lower prices and better service.
To ram home the message, Oracle has this month released Oracle 8i, which is designed to be not just a database, but a complete platform for Internet computing.
Large database companies such as Oracle will benefit as well since this network will be used to provide database access to personnel in the field.
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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 the newest addition to its engineered-systems family, the Exadata X3 Database Machine, Oracle is giving customers more justification to realize they need to move beyond the traditional and non-optimized systems of the past.
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Microsoft saw the Raw Iron announcement as an attempt by Oracle to offer another competitive database to Microsoft's SQL Server.
Suffice it to say that along with Oracle database software, we'll need cheap, massively parallel machines as servers for these huge online databases.
After Hadoop finishes filtering the data, the place you want to put that data is in Oracle database.
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.
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.
Oracle is helping out by adapting its database software to run on lower-end systems.
The new Oracle 12C database has a new architecture that speaks to cloud computing needs.
The companies compete in database software, but IBM also sells Oracle software to its corporate and government customers.
We expect Oracle to continue to increase its share in the database as well as applications software market.
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And on March 24th, Novell announced that it would work with Oracle, the world's biggest database firm, to develop applications for intranets.
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.
By incorporating software that allows traditional files to be stored and managed by the database, Oracle 8i also removes the need for a big, all-purpose operating system, such as Windows 2000.
For years, Microsoft and Oracle have gone head-to-head in the database market, said Tom Pilla, a spokesman for Microsoft.
Meanwhile, Oracle is slowly losing market share to IBM's database products.
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.
He is looking at scaled-down Linux desktops and open-source database software to replace software he now buys from Microsoft and Oracle.
Mobil hired IBM to do the data processing, shutting off Microsoft databases in favor of Oracle database software running on a shared IBM Z900 mainframe.
However, if the new Oracle 8i database would run on a non-NT machine that allowed users to connect to the database using the proprietary interface they are used to, it would be very interesting to MDS, he said.
Oracle is the largest player in the database software market with a market share of close to 50%.
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Oracle, which has purchased hardware maker Sun Microsystems, in addition to many large database-related companies over the past several years, can make that kind of claim.
Suncalled the acquisition a further investment into the future of Web-based computing, to be pioneered by vendors like Oracle, with its new Sun-based Business Online database outsourcing service.
OracleMobile.com and Strategy.com, respectively subsidiaries of Oracle, a database supplier and MicroStrategy, a data-warehousing firm, allow users to select information they want to receive on their wireless devices from corporate websites.
In short, Oracle becomes the indirect beneficiary of SaaS applications market growth since these applications require database and middleware software to be deployed on servers.
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