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News Members with platinum or gold status include Cisco, Google, HP, IBM, Intel, Novell and Oracle. Photos: Waging war on the web's bad guys Photos: It's virtual everything in Cisco's future The Linux Foundation, formed in January 2007 to promote the... [20 Aug 2008]
Qatar Steel Company Builds Integrated Business Platform, Achieves Considerable Annual Savings in Manufacturing Costs
White Paper QASCO, already an Oracle customer, had a database and development tools in place, but needed powerful applications to run and optimize its growing operations. After debating whether to select a single-vendor solution or attempt to integrate a range... [10 Aug 2008]
The rise and rise of Infor
Comment But both companies are also tackling the enterprise market where they run into SAP and Oracle. In fact, there are some striking similarities between Infor and the recent history of Oracle, or at least its business applications arm. [06 Aug 2008]
Yahoo!'s board gets shareholder backing
News Larry Ellison Oracle Find out who made it into silicon.com's Agenda Setters top 20 by clicking on the links below… s board of directors won strong backing from shareholders at its annual meeting on Friday, with Jerry Yang, the company's embattled... [04 Aug 2008]
CRM Evolution at Belgacom
White Paper Brussels-based Belgacom SA is Belgium's leading telecom supplier and Europe's No.provider of ADSL connections. In order to achieve enhanced customer service, Belgacom, Belgium's leading telecom supplier needed to implement a customer relationship... [30 Jul 2008]
Oracle Virtual Private Database
White Paper Oracle Database 10g Release 2 provides robust security features to assist DBA's and application developers with security. Access to data traveling across the network or placed on backup media can be encrypted using Oracle Advanced Security. [30 Jul 2008]
Oracle adds to SAP lawsuit allegations
News Oracle upped the ante in its lawsuit against rival SAP this week, claiming in an amended complaint that SAP's CEO and other top executives were aware of alleged illegal downloading of proprietary software and documents before, during and after its... [30 Jul 2008]
The McCue Interview: Phil Pavitt, CIO, Transport for London
Comment If you start trying to put some of this stuff together you don't need 10 versions of SAP, you don't need 11 versions of Oracle. One of Pavitt's key targets is to streamline and modernise TfL's vast IT infrastructure across the various business... [29 Jul 2008]
Credit crunch prompts open source adoption
News For instance, a Forrester Research survey earlier this month found the market for open-source databases to be booming due to new workloads, such as RFID projects, rich web applications and small portals, despite the unwillingness of enterprises to... [29 Jul 2008]
Web 2.0 prompts love for open source
News The study found the market is led by MySQL - bought by Sun in February for $1bn, more than the total size of the market - with other popular choices including Ingres, Oracle-owned BerkeleyDB, PostgreSQL, which forms the basis for commercial... [24 Jul 2008]
SSL International Is Forecasting Success With PeopleSoft 8 Demand Planning
White Paper SSL selected PeopleSoft's integrated, best-of-breed applications-including Supply Chain Management, Financials, and Human Resource Management-as its enterprise-wide solution and implemented Demand Planning first. [23 Jul 2008]
SAP: Time's up for TomorrowNow
News TomorrowNow - which provides support for applications produced by SAP's chief rival Oracle, at a lower cost than Oracle's own support - will be formally wound down by 31 October. TomorrowNow hit controversy in 2007 when Oracle alleged SAP had... [22 Jul 2008]
PHP Scalability and High Availability: Database Resident Connection Pooling and Fast Application Notification
White Paper This paper describes enhancements to PHP's OCI8 extension to use Oracle Database 11g Database Resident Connection Pooling (DRCP) and Oracle Database 10gR2 or 11g Fast Application Notification (FAN). The OCI8 extension in PHP allows applications to... [18 Jul 2008]
Novell Case Study: Siemens
White Paper In 2001, Siemens, Fujitsu-Siemens and Oracle jointly performed a proof of concept by achieving a new world record for concurrent users for the SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) benchmark. The company's increasing hardware and maintenance costs were... [18 Jul 2008]
The Disrupter: Google Enterprise Apps
White Paper Finally, hear a brief explanation about the disruption Google is causing as related to market players like IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle and the likelihood of a startup lottery. In this five-minute, audio-enhanced presentation Guy Creese, Burton Group... [18 Jul 2008]
