IBM vs. Oracle: War-War or Jaw-Jaw?

摘要

It makes for slightly chilling fun to watch IBM and Oracle taking lumps out of each other. Take speeds and feeds. The enhanced Power 750 Express offers over three times the performance of Oracle's SPARC T3-2 server, says Big Blue. But in SPECjEnterprise2010 benchmark tests, the SPARC T3-4 server beat the Power 750 Express by 32 percent, says Oracle. It's a constant battle of claim and counter-claim. Take software. In May, IBM announced a new move to tempt Oracle users to its own offerings with zero-interest terms from IBM Global Financing. In 2010, said IBM, more than 1,000 Oracle database users switched to DB2, and more than 400 WebLogic customers migrated to WebSphere.