In the race to sell database software worldwide, Oracle improved its position to a "virtual tie" with IBM last year, according to a report by researcher Gartner.
Microsoft gained ground on its database rivals in 2002, despite a decline in sales for the market as a whole, according to research published Wednesday by Gartner Dataquest.
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IBM Australia has responded to Oracle complaints of research methodology by pointing to five years of straight consecutive growth.
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The market for database server software, seen as a barometer of overall software market health, grew slightly last year, fuelled in part by sales of Linux.
A market research report on database sales last year found that Oracle has the most market share and that revenue from databases overall grew slightly last year.
Australian SMBs are hungry for storage, yet have been left underserved by major storage vendors. However, increasing demand for digital marketing and fast access to information is causing vendors to take notice of this once-neglected sector.
With the benefits of mobile data access well and truly taken for granted, the spectre of several false starts is finally far behind the market for smaller smartphone and PDA styled mobile devices.
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OpenOffice.org developers have put the finishing touches on their productivity suite, which provides users and businesses with an alternative to Microsoft's Office suite.
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Researchers build full Itanium support into software that can be used to assemble supercomputers out of clusters of Linux computers.
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The new version of Microsoft's widespread Office software package won't likely spur immediate mass upgrades among businesses upon its release, analysts said, due in part to a complex set of added features.
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