Transaction processing against relational databases may not be the focus of the datacenter, as it was when IBM created the first relational database and Oracle was founded to compete against it in the late 1970s. But transaction processing – counting the money that passes between customers and the companies that serve them – is still the backbone of the economy.
The funny thing is that IBM and Oracle are the two remaining companies that create co-designed hardware/software systems…
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