"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 ...

IBM on Wednesday released the latest version of its database management system DB2, version 9.7, with new features that include the ability for the database to run applications written for Oracle and ...

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 ...

IBM challenges Oracle's claims of dominance in the database market as it promotes the growth of DB2. Officials at IBM are throwing verbal haymakers at Oracle as Big Blue touts its successes in the ...

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 ...

The Gartner report credited IBM's acquisition of database vendor Informix in December of 2000 as the decisive move that pushed Big Blue to the number one spot for database management systems (DBMS).

Dr. Chris Hillman, Global AI Lead at Teradata, joins eSpeaks to explore why open data ecosystems are becoming essential for enterprise AI success. In this episode, he breaks down how openness — in ...

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 ...

IBM is attempting to lure Oracle database and middleware customers to “move up” to its own software with a new series of enticements, the company announced Friday. The offerings include a financial ...

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, ...

On the eve of Oracle Corp.'s OpenWorld user conference, IBM today unveiled a new clustering feature that it says contends will help its flagship DB2 database trump Oracle Corp.'s rival product on ...