Oracle Corp. has dropped its licensing price for multi-core processors by 25 per cent, but the strategy might not be enough for customers to favor Oracle over rivals like IBM and Microsoft, an analyst said. Last Friday's announcement by Oracle was evidence of an on-going price war the company is waging against Microsoft Corp. and IBM Corp., said Joshua Greenbaum, principal at Enterprise Applications Consulting, a research and technology consulting firm in Berkeley, Calif.
Sun Microsystems Inc. Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy at the SunNetwork conference in San Francisco last month preached the mantra of utility computing and lashed out at rivals who call his company's technology proprietary.
Sun Microsystems Inc. Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy at the SunNetwork conference in San Francisco Tuesday preached the mantra of utility computing and lashed out at rivals who call his company's technology proprietary.