database management in comment and analysis
The Bloor Perspective: IBM's Alliance Lite, open SANs, and corporate IT myths
Comment Furthermore, Xchange will integrate their applications with IBM's DB2 database package and market IBM's ecommerce solutions. Underpinning both programmes is IBM's hardware and software infrastructure covering messaging software and database solutions. [05 Mar 2001]
IBM's Alliance Lite, open SANs, and corporate IT myths
Comment Furthermore, Xchange will integrate their applications with IBM's DB2 database package and market IBM's ecommerce solutions. Underpinning both programmes is IBM's hardware and software infrastructure covering messaging software and database solutions. [05 Mar 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: Apple crumbles, realistic CRM, and more sex on the net
Comment We start out by building a database that holds every customer interaction. It has to be a real-time database, just in case the customer phones the call centre immediately after sending an email. The database has to be populated from information... [11 Dec 2000]
Shredding emails, splitting up and rolling dice
Comment Jim Foy, currently senior vice president of the database business operation, will head the business. One will be taking on the traditional database and warehousing activities while the other will be developing platform-independent ebusiness solutions. [22 Sep 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: Oracle marches on, Oftel's dilemma and Sun storage under the microscope
Comment The second conclusion is that a high proportion of the applications sales must have been to existing users of the Oracle database. As long as the applications are selling well, then the database business will continue to do well also. [26 Aug 2000]
The Value Proposition: Budgeting - the first step to information superiority
Comment Strassmann's extensive database of IT spending data has shown IT budgets are determined more by the way a firm is organised and its business model than by the industry sector in which it is classified. [02 Aug 2000]
The Value Proposition: power, information and the European Union
Comment Paul Strassmann has analysed the WorldScope database of 15,571 listed corporations to illustrate how the US is already at a distinct advantage. Using the World Bank 1998 database, 63 per cent of the world's Knowledge Capital is generated by 11 per... [31 May 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: AOL's challenge to Microsoft, IBM's challenge to Oracle, and optical fibre - the next challenge for the Internet
Comment DB2 overtook Oracle as the database market leader last year and appears to be increasing its market share. IBM announced DB2 Universal Database version 7 last week in simultaneous PR events across the globe. [17 Apr 2000]
Database Nation: Turning your computer against you
Comment Database Nation is available from all good bookshops, for more information see http://www.oreilly.com All this week, Silicon.com is publishing exclusive extracts from Simson Garfinkel's latest book Database Nation, which poses a disturbing question... [09 Feb 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: Oracle's 11i under scrutiny, FI's future with Druid, and IT in the mega-merger
Comment It will be combining its European and US operations onto a single database server with the aim of reducing data centre costs and of providing users and management with a unified view of the business. He is the Manufacturing Business Systems Manager... [23 Jan 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: the Red Hat rumours, Informix's passion for Ardent, and XML stumbles towards standardisation
Comment It will also provide a platform to extend Informix's existing XML (Extensible Mark-up Language) support within the database, giving it a strong presence in the growing supply chain integration market and having other benefits in the management of... [05 Dec 1999]
Loyalty card schemes: an expensive waste of time?
Comment We've set up a subset of the main database, which holds information on who is eligible for new offers - based on how many keys they collect. Easy Order is our first step in taking customer management to the next stage of development. [27 Aug 1999]
Informix is dead. Long live Informix?
Comment Database specialist, Informix, has struggled recently to hang onto market share in the face of aggressive competition from the likes of IBM and Oracle. The launch of its Universal Server database was hailed as a new dawn, but the company failed to... [03 Aug 1999]
The end of client/server as we know it?
Comment The reason for this is that Oracle is a database company and would do well to remember that. To combat escalating costs, they improved their network and desktop management software. Four years after Ellison's original NC speech, Silicon.com spoke... [22 Jul 1999]
The IT girl: E-gad! It's an ecommerce launch
Comment Mr Joblowski may know all there is to know about HTML and database engines and extracting millions from venture capitalists, but I'm afraid that beyond that, his knowledge of the world is strictly limited. [02 Jun 1999]
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