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SearchDatabase: IBM Battles Oracle for Top Open Source Customers

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“Toting ‘DB2 on Linux’ hats and green DB2 bumper stickers
featuring the friendly Linux penguin logo, IBM is sending a message
to DBAs that the database of choice for establishing clusters on
the open source platform is DB2–and not products from its nemesis,
Oracle Corp.

“‘You have, in some sense of the word, a data explosion going
on, and to handle that data, companies are turning to database
clusters,’ Rav Ahuja, IBM’s product manager for DB2 on Linux, told
an audience at the International DB2 Users Group (IDUG)
conference…”


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