Oracle and IBM have unveiled a new collaboration which will allow developers and customers to build and innovate based on existing Java investments and the OpenJDK (Java Development Kit) reference ...

Oracle's plan to use technology it got with the acquisition of Sun Microsystems to build integrated solutions in much the same way IBM did with the mainframe could work given its stated goal of ...

IBM disclosed on Tuesday that it will eliminate a small percentage of its workforce in the current fourth quarter. The action will affect "a low single-digit percentage" of IBM's global workforce, the ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. IBMs announced partnership with Oracle encompassing the ...

IBM (IBM +7.98%) and Oracle (ORCL +1.16%) are similar in many ways. Both tech giants are weighed down by slow-growth legacy businesses, both are trying to generate fresh growth with new cloud services ...

"IBM DB2 is only popular on mainframes...which is only used by your father!" That was Oracle Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison's response to a report that Big Blue's database-management software is ...

Looking to jump-start sales in the face of stiff competition and a nasty economy, Oracle is set to disclose plans for new software and a revamped version of its flagship database-management ...

eWeek content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More Recent news stories have stated that IBM was refusing to ...

IBM has surpassed Oracle as the leading seller of database-management software, according to a new study. IBM captured 34.6 percent of the revenue in the overall database market in 2001, up from 33.7 ...

Oracle is yanking advertising claims that its Exadata database machine had vastly super performance to IBM’s Power Systems hardware, according to an announcement Tuesday by the National Advertising ...

Over the past decade, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) both struggled to grow their cloud segments to offset the slower growth of their legacy businesses. IBM dialed back its buybacks and ...

IBM (IBM 0.87%) and Oracle (ORCL 4.46%) both struggled to pivot their legacy businesses toward the higher-growth cloud market over the past few years. IBM was weighed down by its legacy business ...