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Oracle as the new IBM — has a long decline started?

Curt Monash of DBMS 2 : DataBase Management System Services comments:

When I find myself making the same observation fairly frequently, that’s a good impetus to write a post based on it. And so this post is based on the thought that there are many analogies between:

  • Oracle and the Oracle DBMS.
  • IBM and the IBM mainframe.

And when you look at things that way, Oracle seems to be swimming against the tide.

A very interesting take on the position that Oracle is in right now. Do they have the courage, or the desire, to split up like IBM did to stave off irrelevance?

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