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Database Business Problems at Oracle?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the good-but-not-good-enough dept.

abb_road writes "Wall Street responded to yesterday's report of a 42% rise in profits by pushing Oracle's stock down. Despite a 77% increase in applications business, investors are worried that Oracle's core database business remains comparatively stagnant. Though Ellison claims that the DB business will grow in double digits over the next few years, it seems that more companies are switching to open source rather than paying Oracle $40,000 a processor."

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  1. Postgresql vs. Oracle flame-war.... GO! by shilad · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've heard a lot of debate about Postgresql vs. MySql that doesn't need to be re-hashed for the 1000'th time. On the other hand, I haven't heard much on Oracle vs. Postgresql. I have used Postgresql quite a bit, and think it's wonderful.

    What is Postgresql missing that Oracle has? What does Oracle have that Postgres is missing? When do these features matter?

    Let the flaming begin...