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Wired.com: King Larry Proclaims the Land His

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 27, 2002

“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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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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