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Oracle, Sun Microsystems Team Up on Database Software for Businesses.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 1998 by Helft, Miguel
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 15 -- Oracle Corp. Chief Executive Larry Ellison is taking another stab at weakening rival Microsoft Corp., this time aiming at the software giant's rapid inroads into the market for business computers.
As part of a broad technology exchange with Sun Microsystems Inc., Ellison said Oracle would create database software that could run without the need for a full-blown operating system. The move is aimed at making corporate computing simple while defending the two companies' turf from attacks by Microsoft.
The effort, which Ellison and Sun CEO Scott McNealy unveiled Monday, follows an earlier, more ambitious, and so far, unsuccessful initiative by Oracle, Sun and others, to weaken Microsoft's grip on...
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