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Preface
Cloud. Database. Middleware. Applications. Exalogic. Exalytics. Java.
Servers. Virtualization. Storage. What do these, and the rest of those prod-
ucts listed in Figure P.1, all have in common? Simple. It’s Oracle.
Oracle is just about everywhere, in every category, as shown in Table P.1,
and it has the market share to prove it. According to Gartner, Inc., Oracle
is number one in worldwide RDBMS (relational database management
system) soware revenue share, holds a larger revenue share than the four
closest competitors combined, and leads the next closest competitor’s rev-
enue share by 29%.
So it’s a no-brainer that now, or sometime in ...