IBM Tries to Take More Market Share from Oracle, BMC, and CA
M. Reed - September 22, 2000

Event Summary

IBM has announced a four-year, $200 million investment to make it more cost effective and easier for companies to manage data on IBM S/390 enterprise servers. They will attempt to compete more effectively with Computer Associates (which acquired Platinum Technology and Sterling Software), BMC, and Oracle in the lucrative database tools market. These types of tools are indispensable to database administrators and system administrators to ensure that performance and uptime are maximized...