IBM picks open-source in Oracle database fight

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Apr 23, 2009 12:34 AM EDT
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IBM is licensing technology from an open-source database company it's invested in, hoping to convince Oracle customers they should switch to its next DB2. The giant has licensed capabilities in five-year-old EnterpriseDB's Postgres Plus Advanced Server, which EnterpriseDB claims will cut by 90 per cent the cost of moving off Oracle. The technology is expected to appear in the next version of DB2, version 9.7, to be announced today.

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Well, sort of... softwarejanitor 0 697 Apr 24, 2009 11:31 AM

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