In its pursuit of growth in the very high end server market where IBM reigns, Intel tied with Oracle. IBM has exited all other hardware lines and is now focusing on cloud software and services. IBM and Oracle compete in both chips and servers, while all the three compete in chips. This background laid the foundation for Project Apollo, which is a joint effort by engineers from Intel and Oracle to develop competing silicon offering faster speeds. Project Apollo announced that qualifying Power system users can now check out a free proof-of-concept for a simple database migration to Oracle/Intel systems. While this means lost revenue for Oracle's Sparc processor, it's still important for Oracle, which is at the moment losing out on both servers and chips.