More Vendors Bail on Oracle in Favor of IBM
M. Reed - August 7, 2000

Event Summary

Following on the heels of SAP AG and Siebel Systems, i2 Technologies, Inc., a leading Supply Chain Management vendor, and PeopleSoft, a leading Enterprise Resource Planning and Payroll/Human Resources vendor, have also chosen IBM's DB2 Universal Database as their preferred database for developing current and future applications, and as their preferred backend database for customer deployment. According to the vendors, PeopleSoft will use DB2 Universal Database as its primary Unix development platform for PeopleSoft 8, which is their latest Internet-based architecture. PeopleSoft 7.5 applications are now available on DB2 UDB for Sun Solaris, Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, IBM AIX, and IBM OS/390...