database applications in news
Web 2.0 prompts love for open source
News These new uses have expanded the open-source database market to $850m this year, a figure Forrester sees rising to $1.2bn by 2010. The revenue figures include income from training, technical support, consulting or a commercial licence for the... [24 Jul 2008]
Oracle pumps up prices, BEA takes the hit
News The price of the main Oracle Database Standard Edition product has gone up from $15,000, according to published information from Oracle resellers, to $17,500, according to Oracle's published price list. [24 Jun 2008]
Health care records service delayed
News The National Audit Office has published a report on the progress of the Care Records Service that underpins the Connecting for Health programme, which found the software development on the Lorenzo database and associated applications that supports... [16 May 2008]
Geographic database opens doors to private sector
News A national geographical electronic database is now available for commercial use after all 376 English and Welsh local authorities signed up to supply data. The National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG) was initiated in 1999 to centralise all... [30 Apr 2008]
Google invites developers to play on the Bigtable
News Google is offering web developers a slice of its own infrastructure by announcing the preview release of the Google App Engine platform, which provides access to the same database building blocks used by the search giant. [09 Apr 2008]
What Oracle's BEA buy means for users
News But he said the addition of the significant BEA customer base - most of who are using Oracle database tech - could be a major asset. Miles explained that as a significant number of people use Oracle databases in conjunction with BEA applications... [22 Jan 2008]
Fuzzy logic tech project to help the elderly
News D is for Database The technique has already been used in a number of applications but Coupland said: "What we're really looking at now is focusing on quality of life for the elderly. Leicester's De Montfort University (DMU) and the University of... [03 Jan 2008]
Biometrics wing their way into Gatwick
News On arrival, passengers will have their fingerprints and photos checked against a database by immigration officials, and those attempting illegal entry into the UK will be refused entry. The aim is to stamp out multiple visa applications and... [09 Oct 2007]
VMware shows off next-gen virtualisation
News In the demo, an administrator identified the data store of an Oracle database and moved it from one physical storage system to another, as it was in use. For another, a database that's already running full-tilt might not have network capacity to... [14 Sep 2007]
Apple's Safari coming to Windows PCs
News Scott Forstall, vice president of iPhone software development, demonstrated a sample application that Apple built to access contacts in a corporate database. Safari will also allow web developers to create applications for the iPhone using common... [12 Jun 2007]
Adobe gets AIR-headed over web apps
News Google Gears, set for release later this year, offers a way to run web applications offline by providing a local database and other features. Adobe Systems is set to release a beta version of AIR, a software download formerly called Apollo that... [11 Jun 2007]
What is the biggest challenge to your business?
News In a heavily regulated industry, Standard Life also benefits from keeping its database centralised and rooted in the UK, with staff accessing applications and data remotely. In that instance staff were able to work from home or at other locations... [05 Jun 2007]
HP developing shopping kiosks of the future
News The kiosk service combines HP database technology, servers, mobile products, printers and imaging technology. Mohamed Dekhil, manager of imaging and printing retail applications at HP Labs, said: "The technology is available. [30 May 2007]
SAP CEO on SaaS - a dirty word?
News He said: "That was a database not an application and that makes a difference. He said that it's easy to imagine developers tinkering with something like a database and making improvements which they can boast about. [23 Mar 2007]
Blackpool Council boosted by geo database
News Blackpool Council has developed a database of land, street and property information which has already saved around £750,000 in maintenance costs. The geographical database, developed with geographical information software company GGP, has brought... [20 Feb 2007]
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