11.   Database companies will see earnings in line with expectations as the market for databases slows.

12.   Ellison said he is acting independently from his position as chairman and chief executive of Oracle Corp., a database software company.

13.   Ellison said he is acting independently from his position as chairman and chief executive of Oracle, a database software company.

14.   Ellison said the Redwood City database software company has signed up Acer, the Taiwanese computer vendor, to make NCs in the Philippines.

15.   Forrester Research Inc. predicts that sales for online database companies could fall by a third in within five years.

16.   In April, Xchange bought a Boston database mining company.

17.   It becomes the last of the big three local database companies to announce accounting irregularities that required restatement of financial reports.

18.   Last week, the Emeryville database software company gave the market an early warning of its weak earnings for the first quarter.

19.   Lane said it was his decision to leave, and he holds no bitterness toward the database software company that helped make him a billionaire.

20.   Now, the corporate residents include Spyglass, Platinum Technology Inc., another software developer, and investment database companies Morningstar Inc. and Zacks Investment Research.