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Oracle’s Competition Dismisses Foray Into Hardware

Sep 29, 2008
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[From Internetnews]

Oracle’s competition is rejoicing over the company’s announcement of the HP Oracle Database Machine, unveiled with much fanfare at Oracle OpenWorld 2008 in San Francisco earlier this week.

In announcing the product, Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) CEO Larry Ellison told a packed hall that the rapid proliferation of data has forced his company to go beyond software for a way to move data off disks into the database server fast enough to cope.

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