Opinions are mixed amongst Australian chief information officers, partners and analysts on whether Oracle's plans to buy Sun Microsystems will end up with a positive or negative result.
Observers predict that Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of global outsourcer EDS for US$13.9 billion this week will bring a boost to the Australian integrated services market, but also warn the new Australian entity that its rivals will try to take advantage of the transition here.
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IBM has maintained its role as the IT services kingpin, coming out on top of a league table from analyst Gartner.
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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.
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.
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