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Judge Picked in Oracles Fight Against DoJ

Judge Vaughn Walker of U.S. District Court in San Francisco has been chosen to preside over the federal governments antitrust case against Oracles hostile...

Beta 1 Tester Says Yukon Is Slower, Less Stable, But Better

Randy Dyess, founder of the Web site www.database-security.info and a tester of the Beta 1 version of Microsofts Yukon version of the SQL Server...

Mastering Negotiations

CIOs may be ace technologists and darn good numbers people too, but negotiating with vendors often isnt their kettle of fish. Vendors can be...

Oracle Promises a Fight

Oracle Corp. is challenging a civil suit to be lodged by the U.S. Department of Justice and seven states that seeks to block the...

PNC Cashes in on Data Cleansing

/zimages/5/17485.gifPNC Banks information-systems team wasnt thinking about compliance with the Patriot Act when it started a cleanup of customer files in 2000. The Sept....

The Road Less Traveled: Merrill Lynch & Co.

Sept. 11 was the great divide. Decisions companies made about technology infrastructure, personnel, security, business resilience and supply-chain protection took on a much more...

IT Pros Sound Off on Offshoring

One Indian DBA says you get more for your money when you shop India for IT. One U.S. IT pro says you get what...

Oracle Web Services Pull Together Disparate Information Sources

IHOP, the prince of pancakes, is using Oracles Web services-based Customer Data Hub to pull together information from incompatible applications and to create a...

Calculating Returns: Put Time on Your Side

Getting the best return on your technology project means understanding when to spend—and when to save—money. The way to see this is by calculating...

Antitrust Is in the Eyes of the Beholder

The nub of the Oracle-PeopleSoft fight is whether the market for back-office applications will shrink. Thats a vitally important question, and it bears a...