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- Hanatour Simplifies database management and Ensures Efficient Disaster Recovery
- South Koreans looking to book an overseas holiday invariably turn to Hanatour, the country's leading travel agency. Its Web site is linked to at least 4,500 other travel-related sites, and several smaller agencies host their Web sites on Hanatour servers. Hanatour is listed on the Korean stock exchange (KOSDAQ) and...
- Tags: Web, Oracle Corp., Database Management, Hanatour, Disaster Recovery, Storage, Databases, Advertising & Promotion, Data Management, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- Technology strategies and applications
- Over the course of the next few weeks I'd like to sketch out three sets of business requirements and then ask which technologies, and correspondingly what kind of IT organization, would be best for each.This week I'd like to start that process with an imaginary research engineering company - the...
- Tags: Productivity, Development, Database Management, Applications
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- Should we take Wikia more seriously?
- One of the big stories of the weekend was Wikia's purchase of the Grub spider from LookSmart and its release under an open source license.Media around the world went into hype -rdrive, repeating Jimmy Wales' comments at OSCON that Wikia would now take on Google and Yahoo.You see, Google and...
- Tags: mass market, Internet, Google, General, Database Management, content
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Whose is the most popular open source database?
- Well, mySQL of course, why?Well, because PostgreSQL has sent out its take on the recent Alfresco survey which shows that it's where the action is.Here are the key numbers: Community usage: 62% MySQL; 9% PostgreSQL Evaluation usage: 50% MySQL; 23% PostgreSQL Deployment usage: 40% MySQL; 28% PostgreSQLThe PostgreSQL take on this is people...
- Tags: Infrastructure, Enterprise Policy, Database Management, Applications
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Dear Zonbu, think server
- Zonbu is billing itself as a cheap client, a PC replacement, the true $100 laptop.But what if you called it a server?Its $12.95/month service charge is designed to pay for online updates, including security updates and backup services. If you have a home network, two kids each with a PC,...
- Tags: Database Management, business models, Applications, General, Hardware, Implementations, LANs and WANs, Linux, Linux Desktop OS, Linux Server OS, management, marketing, mass market, Network Administration, Software as a Service, Strategy, support, wireless
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- VARs still have Long Reach in small business market
- In the real world of small business, costs matter more than license terms.These are Michael Whitehead's customers at The Long Reach in Ottawa, Canada."All businesses really care is can I get something that's cost effective, which does the job, which is priced to suit my business, and do I have someone...
- Tags: Strategy, Software Licensing, resellers, mass market, marketing, Legal, General, Enterprise Policy, Database Management, business models, Applications
- Blog posts 2007-07-13
- Medsphere begin again
- Two years after throwing over its founders and making a public domain code base proprietary, Medsphere is seeking a new CEO and a new start with the open source movement."The community edition licenses are on the Web site – we have a version under Mozilla and then we have a GPL...
- Tags: Applications, Database Management, General, Implementations, Legal, management, Software Licensing, Strategy
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- How Microsoft helps open source
- One of our newest C|Net bloggers, Matt Asay, is a player.That is, he makes his living as vice president for business development at Alfresco Software, an open source content management company.This gives him an insider's perspective I can't match. (I make up for it somehow.) Yesterday, it made Asay my interview...
- Tags: Applications, business models, content, Database Management, management, Microsoft, Strategy
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- Should this blog cover OpenMFG?
- Life is good these days at OpenMFG.The ERP software company, with products "powered by open source software such as Linux, PostgreSQL, and Qt," continues to expand its channel, its customer base, and its product's capabilities.One of those channel partners, Yellowdog of Canada (no relation to the political consultancy ) has...
- Tags: Applications, business models, Database Management, management, resellers, Strategy, wireless
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- Member Organizer Pro (exe)
- Member Organizer Pro is a flexible member management software for Windows users. Member Organizer Pro is a flexible database management software with ready to use member management solutions. Our software gives you an easy way to manage, track, and organize data of small organizations, sociaties, clubs, camps, interest groups, associations,...
- Tags: Health Care, Database Management, Member Organizer Pro, Advertising & Promotion, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Marketing, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Human Resources
- Software downloads 2007-06-25
- Little red hens of open source CRM
- When we last left our story, Michael Tiemann of the OSI had decided to police the term "open source" and write some CRM companies out. (Picture from Amazon.com.)There comes now another e-mail, this time from the folks at Centric CRM. They have gotten wind of the controversy and want to...
- Tags: Applications, BSD, Database Management, Development, General, GPL, middleware, Software Licensing, Strategy
- Blog posts 2007-06-23
- How far can open source CRM get?
- News that CentricCRM is getting a capital infusion from Intel Capital leads again to the inevitable question, how far can open source get in the CRM market?It's a tough road. Customer Relationship Management is more than mission-critical. The title describes your business right there.So there are big bucks involved, as...
- Tags: Database Management, Applications, Development, Enterprise Policy, Infrastructure, management, Oracle, Software as a Service, Strategy
- Blog posts 2007-06-14
- Doubt no more than mySQL is enterprise class
- One of the first topics I covered extensively here was the question of mySQL being enterprise-class.The open source database based in Finland started from nothing, and the argument against it has always been that it lacks the features and functionality enterprises need, that it's three, or two, or at least...
- Tags: Strategy, management, Implementations, GPL, Enterprise Policy, Development, Database Management, Applications
- Blog posts 2007-06-11
- Gartner denies Sugar some love
- The freedom to modify code is as important as any other freedom offered by open source, according to a new note from Gartner Group.In a thinly veiled attack on SugarCRM and its "attribution license," Brian Prentice and Mark Driver advised clients to find their own definition of open source and...
- Tags: Enterprise Policy, Database Management, BSD, Applications, General, GPL, management, Software Licensing
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- The battle of the suites comes to open source
- Ive seen it more times than I can count. Niches are established and before you can say presto, theyre being connected into suites. Next will come bundling.Im not against the trend. Its highly useful. It delivers enormous value to customers, and turns nice little companies into great big ones. Its...
- Tags: Strategy, middleware, marketing, General, Database Management, Applications
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Is mySQL now enterprise class?
- Thats the question that kept coming to mind when I talked with Paola Lubet, Vice President, Marketing and Business Development at Solid Software, about IBMs announcement it will support mySQL on its System i platform. The announcement was made at the mySQL user conference, which closes today in Santa Clara....
- Tags: Database Management, Development, General, IBM, marketing, Oracle, Strategy
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- PG Matchmaking Solution (exe)
- Matchmaking Solution is for those who are in the business of bringing soul mates together, Professional Matchmakers and Dating Agencies. This is an intuitive and highly effective tool which makes the complicated work of matchmaking as simple as ever. It is a ladies' database management tool which manages and routes...
- Tags: Partnership, Database Management, Matchmaking Solution, Business Structures, Advertising & Promotion, Productivity, Databases, Finance, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2007-04-20
- Google's role in an open source world
- This would not be the open source decade without Google.Everyone who cares knows that Googles giant server farms run Linux. The company freely offers APIs for its most interesting features, it contributes to a wide variety of open source projects, and it will host a Developer Day on May 31...
- Tags: Enterprise Policy, Database Management, Strategy, mass market, Google, General, business models
- Blog posts 2007-04-11
- Krugle and the search for business models
- Another press release came in today from Krugle. (Long live code.)The news is that Sourceforge is going to embed Krugles search engine into its database. This gives developers direct, contextual access to the code of Sourceforges 145,000 open source projects. Its a good way for Sourceforge to respond to competition...
- Tags: Internet, General, Database Management, Applications, marketing, business models
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- Is VRM a solution in search of a problem?
- Uber-blogger Doc Searls is now at Harvard, working on something he calls Vendor Relationship Management, or VRM. (To the right, one of the most famous images in the blogosphere, Docs head, from his blog.)Customer relationship management (CRM) tools are supposed to help companies deal with the people who have bought...
- Tags: General, Applications, Database Management, mass market, Implementations, identity, Development
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
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