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Sun Done?

BY Guy Smith
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue May 5, 2009 at 5:58 PM

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

Online Backup And Why Do We Need It

BY Cornel Iakobcsuk
Relevancy Score: 94
Wed Oct 14, 2009 at 7:12 AM

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

BY Evan Goldberg
Relevancy Score: 77
Tue Jul 8, 2008 at 5:47 PM

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

BY Guy Smith
Relevancy Score: 57
Tue Oct 28, 2008 at 6:17 PM

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»

AUGMENTED REALITY | 1 comment

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

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 50
Tue Oct 13, 2009 at 9:48 AM

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

BY Pat Dillon
Relevancy Score: 48
Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 5:44 PM

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

CAREERS | Comment

VP of Hacker Relations

BY Astrid Sandoval
Relevancy Score: 47
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:21 AM

Job Titles of the Future: Ned LillyREAD»

TECHNOLOGY + COMPUTERS | Comment

The Myth of Sysadmins

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 45
Fri Jul 30, 2004 at 10:34 AM

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

BY Jason Bland
Relevancy Score: 39
Fri May 15, 2009 at 1:56 PM

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

SUN | Comment

Blue Sunrise

BY Guy Smith
Relevancy Score: 38
Tue Mar 31, 2009 at 1:40 PM

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?

BY Manjunatha Kg
Relevancy Score: 37
Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 12:00 AM

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»

RE:CON WTF 2004 | Comment

What We Have Here Is a Failure of Imagination

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 33
Sat Apr 3, 2004 at 10:43 AM

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

BY Kin Lane
Relevancy Score: 32
Tue Aug 12, 2008 at 12:29 AM

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»

SUN MICRO | Comment

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

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 31
Mon Apr 20, 2009 at 11:52 AM

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»

ENTREPRENEURSHIP | Comment

Case Studies

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 30
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:12 AM

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»

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