Oracle is really under assault in the database market. The slight database recovery they announced this week is based on a “thawing” in the market now that 10g R2 and SQL have been released, and even then the growth rate for their core revenue driver is less than 5%. Oracle is facing competitive pressures from IBM, Microsoft and aggressive open source vendors such as EnterpriseDB and MySQL. Oracle claims that its Secure Enterprise Search product (Google competition) will accelerate its database sales. In reality, the move could be a defensive measure to protect its database business. After all companies are less reliant on database if they have a reliable search engine.

RedOrbit – Technology – EnterpriseDB’s First Customer Buys a Piece of the Action:
EnterpriseDB Corp, the open source database company that is pursuing the Oracle market, has announced that its first reference customer is also investing in the company.

The customer, Sony Online Entertainment Inc, one of the largest multi-player gaming sites on the Internet, chose the Postgres-based open source database to lower its operating costs as the site enters a critical period of growth in membership.

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