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Others questioned whether the companies could recover their costs selling database subscriptions.
Oracle, and rivals like Sybase and Informix, had done too good a job of selling database software to corporate America.
Oracle makes most of its money from selling database software and applications that automate a wide range of administrative tasks.
Historically, Oracle stuck to selling database and business software that would run on hardware from its various partners, including H.P. and Dell.
Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer, an expert in data mining at UNIMAS, a Malaysian university, says companies are selling database access to intelligence and law-enforcement agencies "at a level you would not even imagine".Legal challenges to governments' use of personal information held by companies have reached high courts in many countries, including America's Supreme Court.
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Microsoft, meanwhile, is coming up from the low end, selling databases and other back-office software to smaller companies.
Sybase will keep selling databases, but mainly as a driver for the new services business.
It was only last June that Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and others finally began selling databases written for Itanium.
Oracle, which is based in Redwood Shores, Calif., primarily sells database management programs.
All this is for Oracle, a company that sells database management software.
It sells database software which is also available in a free, widely used, open-source version.Next on the list is job losses.
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