Larry Ellison Declared War On IBM With Oracle's Fastest Ever Computer (ORCL, IBM)

Larry Ellison threw his barbs at IBM today when announcing Oracle's first "mainframe" class computer server, called the M5. This is the fastest computer Oracle has ever produced. Oracle also introduced a new mid-range computer, the T5. Both of these products are built with a new Oracle-designed microprocessor, the SPARC T5. Ellison had IBM in his sights as he talked about the M5 and T5. Ellison said that in some of its tests, the M5 was 8-times faster than IBM's 795 and cost 80 percent less. "Yo...