The forthcoming launch of SQL Server 2008 will see Microsoft focus its considerable resources on the issue of licensing, to win customers from rivals Oracle and IBM. "Our challenge, now (that) we ...

During its Data Driven event on Thursday, Microsoft claimed that that SQL Server 2016 delivers "11.7 times TCO savings over comparable Oracle solutions" and it also claimed "one tenth the number ...

Both Oracle and SQL Server have very well-established communities. While they are different, they are also similar in many ways. All DBAs worry about the performance and security of the data and the ...

This aims to give the customers great value for their product and Dell is first to market with this feature. With this release, the number of certified target platforms for SharePlex replication ...

Oracle has launched the MCP server to help developers build AI agents that can autonomously query and reason over enterprise ...

Oracle is determined to keep MySQL if it acquires Sun, but the reason likely has little to do with open source and everything to do with Microsoft. Oracle doesn't compete with open source.

That’s a long time ago. Even in the Price/Performance category, SQL Server is only 4 th behind Oracle 11g. Sybase SQL Anywhere 11 is making a notable 5 th. Has Microsoft been sitting on its hands?