Next up, according to Soni, will be the applications and database software that run on top of Linux.

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We expect Oracle to continue to increase its share in the database as well as applications software market.

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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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