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

The company on Friday posted a "freebie" version of its 10g product to the Oracle Technical Network (OTN). Oracle Database 10g Express Edition, or XE, targets hobbyists, new database developers and ...

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Last week, Microsoft dropped a bomb: In 2017, its incredibly popular SQL Server database product is coming to Linux — a free operating system that the company spent many years trying to drive into the ...