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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison wades into the in-memory database wars |
June 10, 2014
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is taking the fight to IBM, Microsoft and SAP in the burgeoning in-memory database market with a new option the company says can deliver dramatic performance boosts without requiring changes to applications.Ellison first unveiled Oracle Database In-Memory at September’s OpenWorld conference. During a webcast Tuesday, Ellison is expected to announce the product will be generally available within 60 days.That’s a bit sooner than some industry observers expected, and Oracle’s aggressive timeline speaks to the competitive pressures it is facing from rival in-memory database vendors. SAP, for one, has ported its Business Suite software to Hana, an in-memory platform it launched a few years ago, with the express goal of convincing Suite customers now using Oracle’s database to make the switch.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2361860/oracle-ceo-larry-ellison-wades-into-the-inmemory-database-wars.html#tk.rss_all
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