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Topic: Databases

  
HI-TECH   |  Comment

Sun Done?

Will Oracle's acquisition of Sun -- and hence MySQL -- trigger antitrust interference?READ»

Online Backup And Why Do We Need It

Forget all the fuss and try online backup. Regardless of what happens or wherever you would need to recover it, your data is just safe and sound at a minimal priceREAD»

TECHNOLOGY   |  Comment

Mining for Gold

Whether you know it or not you're managing a lot of databases in your business. Tons of mission-critical information resides in a huge variety of applications on your company's computers. From the customer list in the accounting ...READ»

JAVA   |  2 comments

Sun Slump

Are ponytails about to go out of vogue at Sun? Despite impressions, I don’t actually enjoy thumping Sun and its current management. I’m not nearly mean spirited enough to take pleasure in such meaningless potshots. But ...READ»

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Did Augmented Reality Just Get the Real World Database It Needs to Thrive?

Augmented Reality may well be the killer app for GPS and compass-empowered smartphones, but the tech has a significant drawback--it requires accurate points of interest to make it useful. A new start-up, L.A.-based unit called ...READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

Tom Siebel

Tom Siebel's incentive in business and life, he says, is to keep raising the bar.READ»

CAREERS   |  Comment

VP of Hacker Relations

Job Titles of the Future: Ned LillyREAD»

The Myth of Sysadmins

Speaking of the IT team, today of days is the fifth annual System Administrator Appreciation Day . Set aside to recognize computer, network, Web, PBX, voice mail, and database administrators, today's the perfect day to express your ...READ»

DESIGN   |  1 comment

Search Engine Optimization and Hosting

A hosting provider is an important part of your search engine marketing. READ»

SUN   |  Comment

Blue Sunrise

IBM contemplates buying Sun, but for what reasons? IBM intends to use Sun's software assets to further commoditized the IT market and drive down the margins of their competitors.READ»

ACADEMIC   |  Comment

Why Open Source is good for Academic Institutions?

Open Source with its promise of distributing source code and allowing anyone to modify it or derive other software from it, makes it an excellent choice for learning computer science, technology and engineering of ...READ»

What We Have Here Is a Failure of Imagination

Phil Neches was founder, chief scientist, and vice president of Teradata Corp., which applied parallel processing to relational databases. After Teradata was acquired by NCR, which was then acquired by AT&T, Neches served a number of ...READ»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

Distributed Data and Syndication

I am building out a pretty complex system that really seems like a lot of overhead to get some pretty basic systems up. It involves republishing small subsets of data to various data stores such as MySQL, Amazon S3, GData, or just ...READ»

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SUN MICRO   |  Comment

Oracle Spends $7.4 Billion to Buy Sun, Now Rivals IBM

Oracle Corp surprised many observers by forking over approximately $7.4 billion to buy Sun Microsystems, thus moving instantly into the hardware business. It's the closing move in a game where Sun spent months looking for a buyer, ...READ»

Case Studies

You asked us for real examples of how people keep the business side of Me, Inc., running smoothly. So here's some sound advice (and nitty gritty details) from other free agents.READ»