IBM has made its Viper engine available on mainframes, and the company predicts a bright future for Viper in driving through service-oriented architecture environments.
IBM on Thursday in the United States is expected to release a near-ready version of its latest database server, code-named Viper, a product designed to snatch market share from rival Oracle and fend off open-source challengers.
IBM next week will release a major revision of its DB2 database, providing fresh ammunition in the ongoing battle for supremacy in the database marketplace.
IBM has taken a minority stake in EnterpriseDB, an open source database that competes with Oracle and MySQL.
IBM on Monday introduced a free version of its DB2 database, a move designed to win software developers over to its products.
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New features planned for IBM's DB2 database server software will automate common administrative tasks and take advantage of growing interest in low-cost server hardware, the company says.
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Bug hunter David Litchfield says the Oracle community shouldn't be so smug when it comes to database security. He represents NGS Software, which has serviced Oracle in the past and Microsoft at present.
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.
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