"IBM DB2 is only popular on mainframes...which is only used by your father!" That was Oracle Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison's response to a report that Big Blue's database-management software is ...

Evan Walters, president and CEO of Innovative Information Solutions, a Waterbury Conn. IBM partner, said he expects Oracle to eventually integrate its own database and applications server with the ...

Like the variations in national college football polls, newly released worldwide database market share figures offer differing views on who is No. 1. IDC on Friday reports that the market for ...

Oracle, however, maintains that the research firm's measure of the database space warrants a closer look. IBM saw its overall 2001 database share grow to 34.6 percent of new licenses sold worldwide, ...

Despite fast growth by Microsoft Corp.’s SQL Server, Oracle Corp. kept building on its dominance of the database market last year, according to preliminary figures released yesterday by IDC (download ...