Oracle's 10g database lays the foundation for grid computing. The price for the standard edition of Microsoft's SQL Server 2000 is about $5,000, according to the company.

SQL Server Experte Denny Cherry argumentiert, dass der SQL Server besser ist als Oracle Database. Der Grund: Er ist billiger, einfacher und hat eine leistungsfähigere Community.

The new low-end edition is aimed squarely at free and open-source alternatives to Oracle's namesake database, said Andrew Mendelsohn, senior vice president of Oracle's server technologies division ...

The company delivers seven new plug-ins for Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control that will take care of monitoring, service-level management and diagnostics for .Net and Windows Server.

Oracle last week joined the free database game, offering the Oracle 10g Express Edition.