Oracle Is Bleeding At The Hands Of Database Rivals | TechCrunch

A timely DBMS market dynamics snapshot (and video interview with DataStax CEO Billy Bosworth)

"Datastax has its own challenges. It competes with Amazon Web Services and all the other NoSQL providers such as 10gen. The ecosystem is still quite young. Finding qualified people is a challenge. Developers need more education, a change in thinking for the new cloud approach.
But overall, it’s clear that Oracle really is starting to show the pains of being an aging innovator. The earnings show a slight cut. The question is how deep the cut is and how Oracle will respond to challengers like Datastax."

Oracle Is Bleeding At The Hands Of Database Rivals | TechCrunch