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Oracle seeks new trial in IP theft suit against SAP

Oracle's plan to drag its legal fight against rival SAP's defunct TomorrowNow subsidiary through a second trial is not surprising, analysts said Tuesday.

By Jaikumar Vijayan | 08 February, 2012 05:26

Tags: TomorrowNow, software, sap, oracle, Government/Industries, government, ERP, enterprise resource planning, databases, Computer Economics, applications
Google privacy policy claims challenged by watchdog

Google's privacy policy changes have caught the attention of an independent watchdog of the federal cloud that is worried about security risks for government workers.

By John P. Mello Jr. | 31 January, 2012 01:53

Tags: software, security, search engines, privacy, online security, internet, Google, data protection, databases, blogs, apps, applications
SAP's HANA in-memory database will gain ability to run ERP this year

SAP plans to roll out support for the ERP module within its flagship Business Suite product family on the HANA in-memory database platform in the fourth quarter of this year, executive board member and technology chief Vishal Sikka said in an interview Wednesday.

By Chris Kanaracus | 26 January, 2012 09:29

Tags: software, sap, oracle, internet, enterprise resource planning, databases, applications, analytics
Microsoft reveals launch date for next-generation SQL Server 2012

Microsoft has announced a March 7 online event for the launch of SQL Server 2012, the next generation of its database product.

By Chris Kanaracus | 25 January, 2012 03:15

Tags: software, oracle, Microsoft, IBM, data warehousing, databases, business intelligence, applications
Oracle Move Could Push Rivals Toward Big Data Bundles

The shipping of Oracle's Big Data Appliance earlier this month could pressure major rivals like IBM, Hewlett-Packard and SAP to come up with Hadoop offerings that tightly bundle hardware, software and other tools, analysts say.

By Jaikumr Vijayan | 23 January, 2012 22:11

Tags: software, sap, oracle, IBM, hewlett-packard, hardware systems, Data Center, databases, Configuration / maintenance, cloudera, BI and Analytics, applications

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PostgreSQL devs lift open source database to enterprise heights

The release of the first beta of version 9.1 of the open source PostgreSQL database has opened a new era in enterprise-class reliability and data integrity that can compete with the big names, say its developers.

By Rodney Gedda | 06 May, 2011 15:20

Tags: reliability, postgresql, open source, enterprisedb, databases, clustering
Open source helps Facebook achieve massive app scalability

People all over the world spend a total of eight billion minutes a day on Facebook. Some 3.5 billion pieces of content are shared every week, 400 billion Web pages are viewed every month and the site logs a staggering 25TB of data every day. David Recordon, senior open programs manager at Facebook, talks about how the social networking giant uses open source tools to achieve its massive app scalablilty.

By Rodney Gedda | 24 February, 2010 09:40

Tags: software development, SaaS, php, open source, mysql, memcached, Linux, lamp, high performance computing (HPC), Facebook, databases, cloud computing, apache
No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam

The meet-up in San Francisco last month had a whiff of revolution about it, like a latter-day techie version of the American Patriots planning the Boston Tea Party.

By Eric Lai | 02 July, 2009 12:07

Tags: cloud computing, databases, mysql, web 2.0
A greener environment through better data management

An agricultural research group is encouraging Australian grain farmers to join a National Farming Practices Database, an online central repository which includes detailed growing reports and productivity updates.

By Kathryn Edwards | 30 April, 2009 15:18

Tags: databases, gdrc, visual foxpro, farming, agriculture
eBeef: RFID from birth to plate

Computers determine the quality of meat on your dinner plate, long before it turns up on the doorstep of your butcher, and the increasing uptake of technology in the meat industry means armers across the country are liberating themselves from the global financial crisis, the ravages of drought and other environmental problems.

By Kathryn Edwards | 27 April, 2009 14:50

Tags: agriculture, bluetooth, databases, farming, livestock, meat, mysql, RFID, sap, scanners

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