He said Renault's Formula 1 racing team was one of the first test customers for the code. Microsoft has about a 21% share of the database software market, suggest figures from analyst firm Gartner.

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But IBM’s database sales grew just 5.8% last year, to $2.66 billion, compared with growth of 14.6% for Oracle, which had sales of $2.64 billion.