Sun and IBM are competing bitterly for the Unix server market. With Ellison endorsing Sun's Solaris 10 in November, Phillips let the other shoe drop Dec. 22 with Oracle's "founding partner" status ...

The new server also runs the AIX 5L operating system and is ready for 64-bit Linux, said McGaughn. Like the eServer p690, code-named Regatta, it includes self-healing technologies from IBM's ...