IBM has overtaken Oracle to regain its lead in the growing database market, according to preliminary numbers released last week in a report by Dataquest.
As the flood of vendors announcing Linux support at this week's LinuxWorld continues, Oracle Corp., Sybase Inc. and Informix Corp. have, as expected, all laid out plans to extend support of the Linux platform on the database level.
In the hopes of leveraging its direct-sales model on a complex and emerging technology, Dell Computer on Tuesday joined the growing ranks of vendors that are offering a complete storage area network (SAN) solution.