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Business Objects Releases First Fruits of Crystal Acquisition
Business Objects SA Thursday released the first Crystal Decisions Inc. products since closing on the acquisition of Crystal last month and announced the roadmap...
Gates Salutes the Seamless Computing Experience
LAS VEGAS—Microsoft Corp. wants to do more than make sure there are Windows-powered devices in every office, home, cell phone and car. The software...
HPs New Notebooks Boast USB Garage
This week Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to announce two new laptops that incorporate a USB "garage" that holds a Secure Digital card, as well as...
OQO Shows Featherweight PC
LAS VEGAS--One of the coolest, not to mention, smallest items we saw at Digital Experience was the Ultra Personal Computer Model 01 from OQO....
CIOs Plans for (Larger) 2004 Budgets
IDC predicts that U.S. IT spending in the coming year will be up 6 to 8 percent over 2003. What will CIOs be targeting?...
Oracle Plans to Grab Grid Control From Academia With 10g
Oracle 10g could make grid computing relevant to the enterprise, which would be a big shift away from what it is now: namely, a...
Updating and Enhancing SQL Server 6.5
How do you assess the health of an older database—specifically, one that wasnt designed properly in the first place—and bring it on up on...
Use E-Mail to Control SQL Server 7.0 and 2000
Query tables, check the status of servers, check error logs or run DBCC commands on a SQL Server box, all without having to lay...
New Year Resolutions for DBAs
As a DBA, do you spend too much time fighting fires or performance tuning, instead of devoting time to more-important activities such as monitoring?...
Wi-Fi Here, Wi-Fi There
First your company launched a wireless network. Then you set one up in your home. Whats next? How about having Wi-Fi in your cell...