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TimesTen Dispatches Data in Real Time

New and upgraded software from TimesTen Inc. aims to give enterprises greater control over how and when data is cached in its namesake in-memory...

Anacubis Pulls Spreadsheet Data

High-level business intelligence analysis can be difficult, especially if it means staring at pages of text and comparing them with spreadsheet information. It would...

Oracle-DOJ: What We Learned Last Week

Lets cut to the chase: What exactly have we learned after the first week of the DOJ-Oracle trial?Microsoft made overtures to SAP. Yes, Microsoft,...

Integrating IT into the Life Sciences

Lee Hood, one of the worlds leading molecular biologists, has a vision. In addition to a cell phone that can take pictures and organize...

IBM, Verizon Feared Oracles PeopleSoft Buyout

SAN FRANCISCO—At the ongoing trial here, the Department of Justice on Wednesday marched PeopleSoft customers and systems integrators into the witness box. The prosecutors...

Bio Bank Needed to Optimize Genetic Research

SAN FRANCISCO—Genomics research has unearthed a wide range of approaches that drug companies can use to treat diseases. Now, the big question for these...

Microsofts New BI Tools Pose No Serious Competition

For now, established vendors of Balanced Scorecard tools have little to fear from Microsofts new, free business-intelligence add-ons, Office Business Scorecards Accelerator and the...

Iowa County Government Embraces Open Source

Looking to cut costs, Iowas Pottawattamie County switched from mostly Microsoft software to Linux. The move entails a migration to the MySQL open-source database...

Steep Oracle Discounts Revealed in Court Testimony

This week in San Francisco federal court, Oracle Executive Vice President Keith Block admitted in videotaped testimony that Oracle cuts prices up to 70...

Critical Flaw Uncovered in Oracle E-Business Suite, Applications

All Oracle Corp. Applications and most E-Business Suite customers are at high risk from multiple, critical SQL injection vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities were uncovered by...