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Deconstructing a Database Obstruction

In criminal investigations the first suspects are always the most obvious ones—the husband, the girlfriend, the accountant with power-of-attorney who cant be located right...

Colligo Syncs with IBM Workplace on Database Replication

Colligo Networks on Monday announced a plug-in that will support IBMs Workplace Client Technology, Micro Edition—also known as Workplace Micro Environment (WCTME) Version 5.7—which...

Oracle Hypocrisy Evident in ACT About-Face

Oracles about-face on ACT—the high-tech policy group it once spied on and recently joined—highlights the industrys knack of being indifferent to principle on public-policy...

Singing the Data-Integration Blues

If theres one thing that causes sleepless nights for database administrators, its the headache of data integration. As such, it was a major theme...

Date Set for PeopleSofts Trial Against Oracle

PeopleSoft Inc.s lawsuit against Oracle Corp. over unfair business practices in its hostile takeover bid has been scheduled for a Nov. 1 trial date....

SAP, IDS Scheer Address Vertical Markets with New Management Apps

SAP AG and longtime partner IDS Scheer Inc. are readying software that enables companies in specific industries to better manage their business processes. At its...

Informix Database at Heart of IBMs Server-Based Software Strategy

NEW YORK—At the heart of IBMs new middleware-based software model ticks an embedded database IBM picked up in its 2001 acquisition of Informix Software,...

Data-Mining Standard Is a Good Start, But It Still Needs Tweaking

The Predictive Model Markup Language ultimately will provide applications with a method of defining statistical and data-mining models and the ability to share them...

Lots of BI to Love in IBMs Stinger Update

Besides all the autonomic computing features featured in IBMs next-generation database, code-named "Stinger," theres plenty to keep business-intelligence fans happy. One major feature is...

Date Defends Relational Model at DAMA Symposium Keynote

Chris Date, long a staunch supporter of the relational model, tackled SQL, XML and other object-oriented matters in his spirited keynote address at the...