Database software had its shakeout in 1990, and is now worth a trillion dollars as well.
John Bantleman is CEO of RainStor, which sells database software used for big data projects.
Oracle is helping out by adapting its database software to run on lower-end systems.
It sells database software which is also available in a free, widely used, open-source version.
Both OLTP and DW segments of database software serve different purpose and benefit from faster servers.
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The companies compete in database software, but IBM also sells Oracle software to its corporate and government customers.
Oracle is the largest player in the database software market with a market share of close to 50%.
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Notably, Oracle is already the dominant player in the database software market with a share of around 50%.
Next up, according to Soni, will be the applications and database software that run on top of Linux.
Since our story, Sybase, Informix and IBM have announced that they would sell database software for Linux systems.
He is looking at scaled-down Linux desktops and open-source database software to replace software he now buys from Microsoft and Oracle.
The competitive threat, though, is from vendors of database software that can run on a variety of big computers.
For the effort against smallpox, IBM is contributing a fleet of its eServer p690s running its DB2 database software.
Additionally, Salesforce.com has recently forayed into the database software market with the introduction of cloud-based database software named database.com.
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And the biggest line item in their IT budgets is for database software.
Database software mainly consists of two segments: online transaction processing and data warehousing.
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Microsoft makes business software for enterprises and, more importantly, Microsoft makes database software.
Suffice it to say that along with Oracle database software, we'll need cheap, massively parallel machines as servers for these huge online databases.
Mobil hired IBM to do the data processing, shutting off Microsoft databases in favor of Oracle database software running on a shared IBM Z900 mainframe.
Though his Dayton, Ohio-headquartered outfit last year sold computer hardware, database software, retail checkout scanners and automated teller machines, it no longer dominates any major markets.
Compared with those three goliaths, which provide database software to 86% of the enterprise software market, according to Forrester Research, MySQL offers a simpler and cheaper solution.
She has her headset on and is in the middle of trying to sell an indifferent manager at a big insurance company on the idea of buying a very expensive database software package.
Hence, applications, middleware and database software all go hand-in-hand.
In this case, the hundreds of thousands of attacked sites have something in common: They're all hosted on servers running either Microsoft 's Internet Information Services software or its SQL database software.
See the top forecasts for database software.
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In this case, the hundreds of thousands of attacked sites have something in common: They're all hosted on servers running either Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Internet Information Services software or its SQL database software.
Big Blue is hooking up with DeCode (nasdaq: DCGN - news - people ) in a pioneering three-year deal to jointly sell an integrated computer system that combines DeCode's unique gene-mining software, which sleuths out genetic risk factors for diseases, with IBM's (nyse: IBM - news - people ) servers and database software.
Oracle, the database-software behemoth, is buying Sun Microsystems, which sells big computers as well as software ranging from Java tools to open-source databases.
But nine years later it acquired database management software from Lockheed Martin and started selling the technology under license to small banks, to help them manage their customer accounts.
But nine years later it acquired database management software from Lockheed Martin (nyse: LMT - news - people ) and started selling the technology under license to small banks, to help them manage their customer accounts.
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