Oracle Corporation has announced that the Oracle8 database server was named database "Product Of The Year" in Datamation magazine`s 1998 "Plug In Product Of The Year" reader`s poll. Datamation subscribers voted on 75 nominees in 13 different categories ranging from operating systems to routers to database servers. In the database server category Oracle8 was chosen by a margin of 51 percent to 36 percent over IBM`s DB2 Universal Database 5.0. According to Datamation, this year`s poll reflected its readers` demand for "performance and reliability" and stated all this year`s winners were products that "definitely deliver the goods." "Datamation readers are IT managers who work with technology on a daily basis to provide solutions. They know the technology and they know what works in a business environment," said Ken Jacobs, vice president of Data Server Marketing at Oracle. "Oracle is committed to providing our customers with the best technology to run their businesses, and this award is proof that we have achieved that goal."
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