IBM on Wednesday released the latest version of its database management system DB2, version 9.7, with new features that include the ability for the database to run applications written for Oracle and ...

"IBM DB2 is only popular on mainframes...which is only used by your father!" That was Oracle Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison's response to a report that Big Blue's database-management software is ...

Evan Walters, president and CEO of Innovative Information Solutions, a Waterbury Conn. IBM partner, said he expects Oracle to eventually integrate its own database and applications server with the ...

Microsoft Corp. strengthened its hand in the database market Thursday by releasing the first 64-bit version of SQL Server. The product should help Microsoft address a broader segment of the database ...

The database wars of the 1980s and 1990s were painful and bruising affairs that saw a once abundant vendor market pared down to just a handful of contenders. While Oracle and IBM firmly established ...

IBM continues to pursue its Big Data ambitions, this time with an upgrade to its flagship DB2 to v10 along with InfoSphere Warehouse 10 that integrates with Big Data systems and compresses data into ...

Why does Google need another database, and why in particular does it need to introduce a version of PostgreSQL highly tuned for Google’s datacenter-scale disaggregated compute and storage? It is a ...