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Oracle-Linked Industry Group Says DOJ Misses Mark in Case

As it heads to court next week to try to stop Oracles hostile takeover of PeopleSoft, the U.S. Department of Justice lacks a "basic...

Oracle, DOJ in Courtroom Countdown

Almost a year to the day after Oracle Corp. made its hostile bid to acquire rival PeopleSoft Inc. and consolidate the second- and third-largest...

As E-Mail Hassles Pile Up, RSS Is the Elephant in the Room

According to a Gartner statistic cited at this weeks INBOX conference in San Jose, Calif., 75 percent of all knowledge assets exist in e-mail....

Oracle, Apple Plug 10g on Mac OS X

Executives at Oracle and Apple are taking to the highway in a series of international road shows to introduce Oracle Database 10g on Mac...

Microsoft Speeds BI with Two New Accelerators

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced two new business intelligence accelerators geared toward easing access to data and speeding scorecard creation.The first, Microsoft Office Business...

Utility Computing: Back to the Future

PromiseThe ROI for the utility computing model is a no-brainer. But not even the vendors pushing the concept think its ready for prime time.IBM...

CA Stirs up MySQLs World

Imagine youre a little open-source database company from Sweden named MySQL. Things are going pretty good for you. Instead of competing directly with the...

When Databases Think

During the 1992 presidential campaign, the headquarters of then-candidate Bill Clinton sported signs that said, "Its the economy, stupid." In the same way, I...

Casino Hits Database Jackpot With SQL Server

When building an IT environment for a large casino and hotel that weaves together traditional mainframe applications with forward-looking Web-based software, rolling the dice...

Ex-Informix CEO Gets Jail

Former Informix CEO Phillip White was sentenced by a U.S. District Court judge in San Francisco last week to two months in federal prison...