In the wake of MS-DOJ, when is the government going to look into Oracle's headlock on the database industry? By David Coursey, ZDNet News June 20, 2000 4:50 PM PT On the heels of Oracle Corp.'s stellar fourth-quarter earnings report, I'm wondering: How much longer can the Oracle monopoly be left intact? If memory serves me, there used to be other database companies -- Informix and Sybase, I think they were called. And customers used to have to think about which company's database they would standardize upon. Just like customers used to have to decide which desktop operating system to ...