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Around 70 percent of Oracle database professionals say they have never applied a security patch, according to database security firm Sentrigo.
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A new attack technique increases the risk of commonly found bugs in Oracle's database software, a security researcher has warned.
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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.
Purchase of a company with close ties to open-source rival MySQL has people wondering about the database giant's motives.
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Oracle is betting on the lure of cost savings and the strength of its database to help sell its new product, Oracle Collaboration Suite. Get an advance look at this competitor to Microsoft Exchange.
IBM's DB2 database adds several powerful new tools in version 9 including native XML support and DB2 Developer Workbench, and offers serious competition to Oracle and Microsoft.
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