Stories about: Teradata

Oracle's annual OpenWorld show is usually a showcase for its enterprise software. This year, however, it was all about hardware, as CEO Larry Ellison introduced a new family of database/storage products last week that it had been working on with partner Hewlett-Packard for three years.

Mostly lost among the flock of announcements at Microsoft's Mix08 Web developer conference last week was the news that Redmond is starting to test a Web database service based on its popular SQL Server database management software.

Despite fast growth by Microsoft's SQL Server, Oracle kept building on its dominance of the database market last year, according to preliminary figures released this week by IDC.

Oracle continued to top the worldwide database market last year, propelled by companies migrating to Oracle Database running on Linux, according to figures released by two leading market research companies.

Despite its strong ties to proprietary software vendors, the Australian Taxation Office has finally dipped its toes into open source by establishing a Linux-based system for information analytics.

The improving scalability of Linux, the low cost and increasingly high power of Intel Corp. hardware, and the license-free nature of open source software could add up to big savings for large corporations looking to bolster their data centers.

Less than one week after rival Oracle put the finishing touches on its pending 9i database and set a shipping date, IBM on Tuesday detailed a forthcoming version of DB2 UDB (Universal Database).