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IBM Forms Information Integration Leadership Board

IBM has assembled a dozen of its top customers from a variety of vertical industry arenas to form the IBM Information Integration Leadership Board,...

Google Grumbles

Google.com is such a sacred cow in the search business that I hate to be anything other than worshipful. But its beginning to appear...

Slideshow: Views From DEMO 2004

/zimages/6/66083.jpg This weeks DEMO 2004 conference in Scottsdale, Arizona showcased 67 new products, services and innovations coming to the enterprise technology world in the...

Report: Oracles Price Cuts Should Have Been Deeper

Oracle Corp.s recent attempt to lure SQL Server users away by lowering the price of its entry-level database will stumble once customers read the...

FreshDirect: Ready To Deliver

ItS 5:30 a.m. at FreshDirects warehouse and headquarters in Long Island City, N.Y. Its 40 degrees outside and 38 degrees inside. Butchers are slicing, dicing...

Whos Afraid of the Big, Bad, Open-Source Movement?

Theres one burning question facing IBM, Oracle and Microsoft—the worlds biggest database vendors—nowadays. Namely, How do you compete with code thats being given away?Read...

European Commission to Rule on Oracle-PeopleSoft Deal by May 11

The European Commission will decide by May 11 whether Oracles proposed takeover of PeopleSoft breaks its competition laws.Read the full story at The Register.

Utility Model Is at Work Today

When medical imagery data created explosive growth in demand for digital storage, Project Manager Midori Kawahara, of the British Columbia Cancer Agency, needed prompt...

Push for Grid Computing Is On

With the holy grail of utility or grid computing as their quest, Oracle Corp., IBM and Veritas Software Corp. are each working on technologies...

Reconstructing IT for 40,000 Mortgage Brokers

As mortgage rates sank to an all-time low last year, 11-year-old Accredited Home Lenders Inc., which services an aggregate customer base of about 40,000...