I think that was exactly their strategy when they aquired RDB, but I think Oracle underestimated how much RDB customers would resist losing RDB. You can't tick off customers of that magnitude who are willing to spend big $$$ for the reliability and performance of RDB, which is tough to match. I think Oracle's done a decent job of continuing to develop RDB. Its even picked up a few nice features from Oracle RDBMS like role based secutiry and logminer. It definitely has given more than it got though - partitioning, parallel query ...
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