Monthly Archives: August 2001
Red Hat to Add Journaling
The first public beta of Red Hat Linux 7.2 was just posted, and the biggest change for server use will be the operating systems...
Coming to a Boil
Cahners In-Stat expects the CRM midmarket to total $490 million by the end of this year, with rapid growth starting in 2002. The firm...
The Price Is Wrong
With wireless high-speed packet data networks just starting to come online in the U.S. and some trials and commercial launches around the globe, operators...
RFP Showdown: August 20, 2001
The ProblemDozens of solutions providers wanted to take another crack at last months problem. Here, once again, is a summary of the challenge: Acme...
EMC Withstands Challenges
The resale agreement between Sun Microsystems Inc. and Hitachi Data Systems Corp. unveiled this month was the biggest and latest in a string of...
Feel the Power of the Computer Grid
Imagine if computing power were as easily accessible as electricity.Businesses essentially would be able to tap into a vast network of supercomputers and pay...
Oracle Takes Low-Rent Tack for Database
When I last wrote about Oracle, I was a bit confused about why the companys code name for Oracle9i was the "last database." Im...
Oracles New Edge
Oracle Corp.s corporate strategy is to make its database be all things to all people, an approach that has produced the Swiss Army Knife...
Database Options Expand
Companies looking for evidence of database life beyond Oracle Corp., IBM and Microsoft Corp. can be optimistic after news from third-party vendors supporting Sybase...
Imitation, Innovation in Database Industry
Given its critical nature to large organizations, the database market is appropriately slow to change. In fact, the big trend in the database industry...