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Oil crisis? What oil crisis? IT spending de-coupled from wider war shock

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Gartner sees accelerating growth in IT spending, powered by cloud and AI infrastructure investment

A day after the International Energy Agency (IEA) said the US/Israel/Iran war was creating the worst energy crisis ever faced by the ‌world, Gartner increased its growth forecasts for global IT spending by nearly three percentage points.…

Lindsay Clark

The spaghettified DBMS chart that shows Oracle's crown is slowly slipping

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Change is glacial, but the direction is clear

It might look like a map of the London Underground designed by a madman, but Gartner's newly-completed DBMS Market Share Ranks: 2011-2025 has an important message. The change may be glacial, but (most of the) dominant database vendors are slowly losing their grip on the market.…

Lindsay Clark