The most recent phase, begun in 2003 and continuing, is moving database servers to Linux computers running Oracle's database software. "We're a very demanding and heavy user of Oracle," Killalea said.

The Open Source Development Lab, a collaboration by IBM, Hewlett-Packard and others to improve Linux on high-end computers, has released a new version of software for testing whether changes to ...

Red Hat, a leading provider of open source solutions, announced Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Business Developers to simplify access to the leading enterprise Linux platform for business-focused ...

General-Purpose Performance: Ubuntu is designed to be versatile, providing solid performance across a wide range of applications, including databases. Kernel and File Systems: It uses a generic Linux ...

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.