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Oracle's announcement Monday that it is buying Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion in cash has the potential to rock the hardware and software markets. Oracle expects the deal will boost its earnings considerably over the next few years. The two companies' technologies will likely mesh to make Oracle ...
Ever notice that Microsoft -- with cash to burn, apparently -- waits for the obvious to become inevitable and then ends up paying huge premiums for companies in order to catch up to reality? We saw it with aQuantive, Softricity and Groove Networks. It's happened again with Tuesday's $1.2 billion bid...
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NCR, the world's largest maker of automatic teller machines, said Monday it planned to split itself into two independent public companies by spinning off its fast-growing Teradata Data Warehousing unit. NCR will split by giving shares in the new, stand-alone Teradata to existing NCR shareholders. Th...
The adaptation of technologies that were once exclusive to big science and the military for commercial public use has become a characteristic of our times. Notable among them are global positioning systems and geographic information systems, both of which have been growing in adoption as their tec...
With the ongoing development of wireless telecommunications and shared application and data resources, the practice of integrating geographic information systems with conventional data analysis and decision support systems is on the rise. This trend is having a profound effect on how products and se...
Researchers have long recognized that representing large and diverse data sets visually and spatially offers the potential for improving both comprehension and ease of use. With the confluence of work in geographic information systems, enterprise data systems and distributed computing, this potentia...
The size of an organization's data mountain can be expected to double roughly every five years, which can be an overwhelming prospect. For the firm that has implemented effective data management procedures, though, there's gold in them there hills. Interest in GIS-based Web services, such as Google ...
Today's businesses are operating in real time as the demand for instant access to information and services grows. While the need to meet "instant gratification" status continues to rise across all industry sectors, today's online retailer is taking advantage of key technologies to build a closer rel...
The challenges associated with building the next generation of large-scale data warehouse systems should not be underestimated. Storing and accessing data across multiple geographically dispersed platforms using multiple storage and transfer standards is a huge task. How to design database schema th...
Since the technology of data warehousing has risen to become common currency, it has been at the epicenter of leading-edge advances in database, data analysis and decision support systems theory and practice -- and for good reason. With experts estimating that the amount of data in any given organi...
Informatica, a supplier of data integration and business intelligence solutions, has announced it plans to buy Striva Corporation in a cash-and-stock transaction worth about $62 million. Sanjay Poonen, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Informatica, told the E-Commerce Times that Striva...
As a CIO or IT manager tasked with implementing a storage area network, you can start out simply -- but to build a reliable SAN and integrate it properly with the workflow of an entire enterprise network, be prepared to do a lot of planning and hard work. What are the highest data storage hurdles --...
The Debian GNU distribution of the Linux operating system has taken a step closer to bringing the famous "non-commercial" software to a new commercial arena by garnering backing from industry mainstays VA Linux Systems, O'Reilly Associates and SGI, Inc
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