“IBM and Microsoft are turning up the heat in Oracle’s key
database market, which contributed about 80 percent of revenue in
fiscal 2002. But Oracle is striking back with what Ellison said
were cheaper, better and more reliable products based on
application clustering.“The idea of clustering is to group several small Linux machines
together, which will allow low-cost machines to run large
enterprise applications, he said.“Oracle is the only one with these clusters, and (this is) the
reason why we don’t need a recovery in IT spending to grow,” he
said…”
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