Oracle is finally making it easier for developers to test-drive its industry-leading database software. While Oracle's existing customer base, for the most part, isn't going anywhere, cloud computing ...

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Oracle Corp., which supplies Yahoo! Inc. with database software, may lose some of that business to a little-known competing product -- the free MySQL database. MySQL and others are starting to eat ...

Microsoft is offering free licenses for its database software to current Oracle customers in its latest effort to wrestle market share from its competitor. Companies considering switching can apply to ...

Business software maker Oracle Corp. will make available today a free version of its flagship database software, amid intensifying competition in the database-software market, the company said ...

Microsoft is offering free licenses for its database software to current Oracle customers in its latest effort to wrestle market share from its competitor. Companies considering switching can apply to ...