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Data warehousing player Teradata will spend this year bolstering itself against rivals Oracle Corp. and IBM and with major upgrades to its entire product line. Later this year, the San Diego-based company—a division of NCR Corp.—plans to upgrade Teradata Database Version 2 Release 4.1 to Release 5.0, which focuses on speed and “near real-time” processing, […]

For PeopleSoft Inc. and its application hosting business, bigger is better. PeopleSoft is expanding its application hosting arm, PeopleSoft eCenter. The Pleasanton, Calif., company said it will expand its business globally to companies ranging in size from Fortune 500 to midsize. Hewlett-Packard Co. will provide the technical operations, infrastructure and services needed for a global […]

Its a classic IT dilemma: should you wait for a standard to emerge and risk losing your competitive advantage, or should you get the technology you need now in a pre-standard product that might later cause incompatibilities? The lack of an update capability in XQuery 1.0 is forcing many IT executives into just such an […]

Its easier to match a pattern than it is to climb a tree. Thats how Neocore Inc. looks at it. The Colorado Springs, Colo., startup has a patented digital pattern-processing approach as its XML query access method for the companys chief product, XML Management System. “Rather than navigating a tree, weve built a unique pattern […]

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IBM today introduced a 1U rack-mounted server that marks the debut of a new memory technology designed to effectively double RAM capacity and boost system performance up to 50 percent. The computer makers Memory Expansion Technology, or MXT, increases memory capacity by effectively compressing data to half its normal size, and accelerates system performance by […]

Microsoft Corp. is considering bundling in the next version of Windows a pared-down version of its next-generation SQL Server database and the relational file system that goes with it. Microsoft executives have been briefing the companys largest corporate clients and partners about their plans for the next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, and have included […]

Perhaps at no other time has it been more difficult for technology vendors to ply their wares. Products and services had better be faster, smarter, more secure, more capable and more cost-efficient if corporate IT is going to dedicate part of its tightly bound budget to them. The 2nd annual eWEEK eXcellence Awards provide a […]

eWEEK Technology Editor Peter Coffee provides a walk-through evaluation of Microsofts Visual Studio.Net. A more comprehensive review of VS.Net will appear here the day Microsoft launches the tool set, Feb. 13. Coffee says of VS.Net: “Microsoft has taken on the challenge of making distributed Web services, and non-visual server-side application elements, as accessible to developers […]

Visions of stillborn products haunted the company founder. Nightmares about mass layoffs jolted him awake at 3:00 a.m., while flat markets and bloodthirsty competitors pitched him into clinical depression. It sounds a lot like dot-com carnage, but its actually a story thats as old as VAX minicomputers. Its the story of Jim Warner, the founder […]

Dell Computer Corp. has discontinued its Itanium-based workstation due to weak demand, marking another setback in Intel Corp.s efforts to promote its 64-bit chip released eight months ago. Dell, the worlds largest workstation vendor, this week confirmed an earlier eWEEK report that it had decided to drop the Itanium-based Precision Workstation 730, withdrawing it from […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Wednesday is rolling out a four-pronged storage plan that touches upon such areas as data continuance and data access, and will also manage the hardware of its competitors. Under the umbrella terms StorageONE and Integrated Management Suite, the Palo Alto, Calif., companys approach, first reported in December, also will deal with […]