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Oracle's innovation and performance in the enterprise database market made it the envy of its competitors--including IBM, Microsoft, and Sybase. However, their efforts to expand their core business outside the enterprise database market may end up costing them their leadership position in that market as well.
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Databases are by no means an easy product category to understand. Many of the big players now offer free or "light" versions of their databases, but comparing them all is no easy task -- as we found out.
Many users are faced with the difficulty of designing solid databases, but once the database is in place, they are confronted with the even more difficult task of generating quality reports from the data.
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