"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 ...

DB2's pricing structure offers a straightforward per-processor pricing model, while Oracle charges licence fees for unlimited users, does not distinguish between full time and occasional users and ...

I'm really pretty ignorant of database admin-type things. What I need to do is copy the contents of a table in a DB2 database into a table in an Oracle database on another physical server. I have an ...

New pureScale clustering feature will enable companies to scale out their DB2 clusters without paying an enormous performance cost, IBM says On the eve of Oracle’s OpenWorld user conference, IBM ...

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 ...

IBM Db2, Oracle Database, MySQL, and Microsoft SQL Server continue to be dominant enterprise-ready databases, each supported by various hardware from established vendors. This paper presents a ...

Microsoft Thursday strengthened its hand in the database market by releasing the first 64-bit version of SQL Server. The product should help Microsoft address a broader segment of the database market, ...

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Oracle today, announced that it has surpassed the best IBM DB2 benchmark on the SAP Business Intelligence-Data Mart (BI-D) Standard Application Benchmark. On a system comprised of a ...