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Oracle spends 1.8 billion on research & development
in 2006
According to
this article
by CIO Insight, Oracle spent nearly two billion dollars in 2006,
ranking Oracle #6 in the top IT spenders on research and
development, ahead of Google.
This demonstrates Oracle's commitment to hang-on in the
competitive relational database market and to expand their presence
in the ERP space, some money being spend on "project fusion" to
integrate their diverse family of acquired ERP products like
Peoplesoft and J. D. Edwards.
The highly anticipated Oracle 11g software promises to be
revolutionary, building the
foundation for a self tuning database and accommodating the new
movement toward massive
database consolidation onto large monolithic servers.
Oracle 11g also has features for predictive modeling, using
historical workload data to predict future performance trends.
| RANK |
COMPANY |
BUSINESS |
R&D SPENDING IN
2006 (millions) |
| 1 |
MICROSOFT |
Software |
$6,584 |
| 2 |
IBM |
Computers |
$6,107 |
| 3 |
INTEL CORP |
Semiconductors |
$5,873 |
| 4 |
HEWLETT PACKARD |
Computers |
$3,591 |
| 5 |
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS
INC |
Semiconductors |
$2,195 |
| 6 |
SUN MICROSYSTEMS
INC |
Computers |
$2,046 |
| 7 |
ORACLE CORP |
Software |
$1,872 |
| 8 |
SAP |
Software |
$1,781 |
| 9 |
GOOGLE INC |
Software |
$1,228 |
| 10 |
ADVANCED MICRO
DEVICES |
Semiconductors |
$1,205 |
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