When Larry Ellison throws down the gauntlet of transaction processing benchmarks and offers to pay "any company $10 million if [their] Oracle database application doesn't run at least twice as fast on SUN hardware as on IBM's fastest computer", there is no doubt that a rivalry exists between the Red Army of Redwood City and the Blue Suits of Armonk.
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