“Is Oracle about to get

"Is Oracle about to get Netscaped?" asks CNN Money.

"Not only is the Redwood City, Calif.-based company still under pressure from IBM (IBM: Research, Estimates) in the corporate market, but it now faces serious competition from Microsoft (MSFT: Research, Estimates) on the lower end of the market and in the Windows space. Though Microsoft's database product, SQL Server, has been around since the mid-1990s, in the past three years it has improved dramatically, and last year Microsoft for the first time became the top vendor in the Windows-based database market.

Microsoft's tactics in the sector -- enter with low-price, "good enough" technology and nibble away market share from entrenched rivals slowly but surely -- sound familiar to anyone who followed the browser battles of the late 1990s. So, is Oracle in danger of getting Netscaped?"