The forthcoming launch of SQL Server 2008 will see Microsoft focus its considerable resources on the issue of licensing, to win customers from rivals Oracle and IBM. "Our challenge, now (that) we have ...

Microsoft laid out the case for enterprises to ditch Oracle's database system for its own at this week's Data Driven conference in New York City. Exec Judson Althoff detailed a SQL Server 2016/Oracle ...

Data professionals might have been expecting a launch date for SQL Server 2016 at the Data Driven event held today in New York City, but what they got was a recap of the flagship database system's ...

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Monday at the SQL Server 2005 launch event that the Redmond, Wash., company has developed a set of go-to-market programs with SAP to take market share from Oracle.

Microsoft's Web-based computing service will start offering Oracle's database as an option as the companies cast aside a long rivalry to attract businesses moving their software online. Microsoft will ...

Microsoft laid out the case for enterprises to ditch Oracle's database system for its own at this week's Data Driven conference in New York City. Exec Judson Althoff detailed a SQL Server 2016/Oracle ...