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SAP Scores Coup with Wookey Hire

John Wookey, the former head of application development for Oracle's Fusion applications, started work on Nov. 10 with Oracle's archrival SAP as senior vice...

Spencer Katt Caught on Camera

It's amazing what stir crazy cubicle dwellers will find in the closet on a slow Friday in October at Ziff Davis Enterprise.Spencer Katt ......

Oracle Database Administrators Fear the ‘Super User’

What keeps Oracle database administrators up at night? Cranky servers? Hackers? Pushy vendor reps? It's their colleagues. Specifically managers, administrators, consultants and partners, dubbed "Super...

So Long, Transmeta

So Transmeta is up for sale, a move reported by eWEEK's Scott Ferguson and one that will mark the end of an innovative processor...

Microsoft, HP Thin the Shareholder Herd to Raise Shares

How does a Fortune 500 company caught in the lack of confidence hammering the stock markets put a rocket under its share price? Thin...

IBM Is Banking on Academics to Win the Services War with HP-EDS

IBM researchers, the Ph.D.s and technologists by vocation, not profession, the lab-coat academics who toil years in the bowels of Big Blue on theoretical...

Twittering Hurricane Ike

Rick%20Sanchez.jpg Just before 2 p.m. Sept. 12, in Morgan's Point, Texas, CNN correspondent Rick Sanchez received a message while he was doing a live update...

The Planet Prepares Data Center ‘Bunkers’ for Hurricane Ike

Catastrophic events such as storms, wars, financial meltdowns and disasters offer a unique opportunity for captivating observation (blow by blow news coverage) during the...

Large Hadron Collider Smashes Particles and Crunches Numbers on a Massive Scale

It's been called the search for the God Particle, the very origins of the universe and the beginning of time.The effort is massive, akin...

New Life for Old Tennis Stats

Arthur_ashe_stadium_interior.jpg When tennis player Mardy Fish relives his unexpectedly strong performance in the U.S. Open quarterfinals, he might be impressed with how he hung on...