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Over the past nine months, more than 500 companies have invested in Oracle over SAP. Oracle's market share gains are documented in SEC filings. According to Oracle's latest SEC filing, Oracle posted license growth of 82% (year over year) in the most recent quarter and 31% (year over year) excluding acquisitions. 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