Litchfield (right), co-founder of Next Generation Security Software, ran port scans against 1,160,000 random IP addresses -- TCP port 1433 (SQL Server) and 1521 (Oracle) -- and found about 368,000 ...

This year’s Oracle tally is actually down from Litchfield’s 2005 estimate, which counted 140,000 Oracle systems. That same study placed the SQL server total at 210,000.

At Oracle OpenWorld, F5 Networks, Inc., announced that its BIG-IP solutions have achieved Oracle Database and WebLogic Ready status through the Oracle PartnerNework (OPN), demonstrating that F5 has ...

Using a sample group of 157 SQL servers and 53 Oracle Database servers, Litchfield based his conclusions on the Ant Census from the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute.

Litchfield took a look at more than 1 million randomly generated IP addresses, checking them to see if he could access them on the IP ports reserved for Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle's database.