This was a very important and strategic move by Oracle, which is certainly good for them in long run.
In 2005, the industry witnessed great momentum around open source databases, from product enhancement, improved customer support and increased adoption to new vendors jumping on the bandwagon. Open source databases continue to make inroads into enterprises, offering low-cost database management system alternatives to support all types of business applications.
One of the key features for Oracle in supporting large databases is the partitioning feature, where you can break down large tables into smaller, virtual tables and make them easier to manage. Data partitioning has really helped database administrators to manage very large databases more efficiently.
They have aggressively wanted to dominate the applications space for the past two years. Their aggressive moves to acquire PeopleSoft and Siebel have certainly put them in line with SAP this year in regards to the applications platform.
A lot of customers are going to be demanding that. It has to be seen if IBM and Microsoft are going to offer similar products at similar cost, or as part of their databases.
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