Posts Tagged ‘Oracle’

Oracle buys SUN reduces competition in the database market by removing the threat of MySQL (2009-4-21)

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Oracle Corp.’s US$7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. will bring together the world’s most valuable relational database with the most popular open source one — MySQL.

Oracle reaped $8.34 billion from database sales in 2007, giving it 37.6% of the $22.2 billion global market, according to IDC. The 2008 figures are not yet available, [...]

Oracle vs. SAP: Who’s delivering the greatest value with their enterprise applications? (2009-1-10)

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An in-depth analysis of 56 customers showed significant differences between the value delivered to SMBs by Oracle and SAP today.
Oracle customers included Oracle E-Business Suite, JD Edwards, Peoplesoft, Siebel, and Siebel on demand. SAP customers included R3, All in One, Business One, and mySAP Enterprise.
Achieving positive ROI
41 percent of SAP SMB customers had achieved a [...]