While I would characterize what we saw in terms of very large databases on Linux as early adopter usage, it foretells the increasing presence of Linux in years to come. We expect that in the next survey we will see even significantly more Linux presence than we saw in this survey.

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An interesting finding about Oracle's results is that not only did it have a strong presence in our survey, but it had a strong presence across platforms, including at least one No. 1 position in a top ten list on each of the UNIX, Linux, and Windows platforms. It's also important to mention Oracle's strong showing in both OLTP and data warehousing applications.

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