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- Amazon launches relational database service: Think MySQL in the cloud
- Three reasons this is a bad paradigm...Security, security and...let's see, what was that other thing...oh yeah, security. The comment "enterprise customers are likely to take their time moving sensitive data into Amazon?s RDS effort" should be nominated for the understatement of the year award. What's more likely is...
- Tags: Databases, Web servers, Storage, Web site development, RDBMS, Amazon.com Inc., sensitive data, database, MySQL
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- IBM launches 'pureScale': Front runs Oracle's database attack
- IBM on Friday will launch a new database technology dubbed pureScale, which is designed to up the ante in transaction processing. The news comes ahead of Oracle's OpenWorld powwow next week. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is expected to take a bevy of shots at IBM's database capability as it touts...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., IBM DB2, IBM Corp., Attack, DB2 pureScale, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- Cloud Computing for the Enterprise: Part 2: WebSphere sMash and DB2 Express-C on the Amazon EC2 Public Cloud
- Among the three cloud types - public, private, and hybrid clouds - the public cloud is probably the most well-known and mature in its offerings. Accessibility and affordability are two of the key characteristics that have led to the popularity of the public cloud. To these ends, the Amazon Elastic...
- Tags: IBM WebSphere, Amazon.com Inc., IBM DB2, IBM Corp., Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Enterprise Software, Application Servers, Middleware, Management, Hardware, Software
- White papers 2009-05-20
- OS execs split over fate of MySQL under Oracle's grip
-  The fate of Sun's open source jewels -- especially MySQL -- has been heavily debated since Oracle announced its intentions to buy the Java giant earlier this week. Few expect the Redwood Shores, Calif. database giant to mess with Java. It is a...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL, Operating System, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2009-04-24
- P570 vs T5220
- As part of JesperFrimann's challenge with respect to the options available to a company with two aging p690s running Sybase, he suggested that: It's 256 threads per box on the T5440 versus 16 on the p550, and furthermore the power 550 supports shared pool virtualization.. so it...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM POWER6, IBM Corp., J2Ee, Processors, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Software, Programming Languages, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-03-12
- 3B Dataservices Leverages IBM WebSphere and DB2 to Build Unique ERP Solution With Seamless Data Access
- 3B Dataservices, Ltd., an IT systems developer specializing in customized applications for a wide range of businesses, uses IBM WebSphere Application Server - Express and IBM DB2 Universal Database to build iNfinite Answers, its unique Enterprise Resource Planning ERP solution. Most conventional ERP systems fail to make data truly accessible...
- Tags: IBM WebSphere, ERP, Data Access, IBM DB2, IBM Corp., Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Databases, Middleware, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2007-08-01
- Behr India Finds Cool Solution to IT Challenges With IBM
- Based in Pune, India, Behr India Limited designs and manufactures advanced Heating, Ventilating and Air-Conditioning HVAC units for the automotive industry. With diverse operating systems, server platforms and applications, Behr India found its expansion plans were hindered by rising IT costs. The company's decentralised data storage presented a risk to...
- Tags: Information Technology, IBM Corp., Operating Systems, Workstations, Servers, UNIX, Strategy, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Management
- Case studies 2007-03-01
- IBM pushes enterprise Linux profit center
- I dont write enough about IBM here.The company refuses to be too sexy for its shirt, with a formal, coat-and-tie corporate culture nearly a century old. They dont do many turns on the industry cat walk. They dont go in for big parties.But IBM defines the enterprise space, still the...
- Tags: General, Development, Linux, Strategy, Linux Server OS, Database Management, management, marketing, IBM Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-02-08
- Microsoft products, people and strategies that disappeared in 2006
- Microsoft products, people and strategies that disappeared in 2006CorrectionIn your note on Eric Rudder you said: "Once Gates relinquishes his CEO title, will Microsoft become "Rudderless"?" Gates is not Microsoft CEO...hasn't been for years. Ballmer is the CTO. Gates is Chairman and Chief Software Architect. I hear second hand...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Even IBM, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, EFI, strategy
- Discussion threads 2006-12-20
- Oracle with Linux is doing the inevitable -- a business model mash-up
- Oracle with Linux is doing the inevitable -- a business model mash-upSpecialized stacksI'm not at all convinced that there's any reason for Oracle to offer a direct competitor to Red Hat. It's not like the classic oligopolistic zero-sum game where they can hope to corner the market by starving...
- Tags: SMB/SME, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Red Hat Inc., Oracle Corp., small and medium business, Microsoft Corp., Linux
- Discussion threads 2006-10-26
- IBM's open source expansion could speed up IT commoditization
- IBM announced at LinuxWorld in San Francisco that it is extending its support for open source business models in eight key initiatives. I spoke with Dan Frye, who heads up IBM's Linux Technology Center in Portland, Oregon. "Our experience with Linux and open source has shown how disruptive the business...
- Tags: IBM Corp., open source
- Blog posts 2006-08-15
- More wag the dog: Mobile databases not exactly free
- One of the reasons I was finally inspired to finish that JavaDB piece I just wrote after starting the homework for it in January was because a ZDNet reader recently contacted me regarding a two year old piece I wrote that asked whether or not Sybase and iAnywhere were...
- Tags: iAnywhere Solutions Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-05-01
- The Oracle "monopoly"
- The Oracle "monopoly"Open source vs. Free source"Open source represents the same kind of problem for Oracle. Oracle, of course, also has an open source strategy, which includes free downloads of code, and it's a strategy, not a giveaway."No, open source is not downloading code for free (that's free source). Open...
- Tags: Databases, database market, open source, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, database, SAP DB
- Discussion threads 2006-02-12
- IBM sets DB2 database free
- IBM sets DB2 database freeSEC0ND WALL ICEWHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS, IF IT MELTS IT HAS BEEN VIOLATEDEvans: MySQL and Firebird are neck-to-neckActually Evans reported that MySQL and Firebird were about equaly popular, as reported by ZDNet itself:http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39185042,00.htmDamn....I just spend a whole bunch on this software. Quite the bummer.. Oh...
- Tags: Databases, Enterprise software, Microsoft Windows XP, database, IBM Corp., IBM DB2, Firebird, DB2 Express-C, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2006-01-30
- The performance debate: Linux vs Windows
- My January 13th blog To beat Linux: scam the customer drew quite a lot of talkback comments. One of the themes there was fired off by a comment from No-Ax-To-Grind to the effect that the Linux community is somehow afraid of a direct performance comparison against Microsoft. I'm pretty sure...
- Tags: SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Blog posts 2006-01-26
- IBM may offer free DB2 database
- IBM may offer free DB2 databaseFree software is just bad...I am against free software in general. The only vendor capable of releasing free software is Microsoft. Why you ask? Because Microsoft products are simple, elegant and refined. The world needs to use these products to be productive. My fear is...
- Tags: Databases, Enterprise software, Free Software, Mike Cox, IBM DB2, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., database
- Discussion threads 2005-11-18
- Big Blue backs PHP for Web development
- Big Blue backs PHP for Web developmentNot surprising. A natural move!It's a natural move. Java is well overblown. It's going everywhere. To do very simple things on web, how complex Java is increasingly become. Those people working on to develop all sorts of stuff, better think again.This move is a...
- Tags: Scripting languages, IBM Corp., Web, Web development, PHP, Java, J2EE
- Discussion threads 2005-02-24
- Face Off: Sun issues open letter to IBM's Palmisano
- Sun is ratcheting up the heat on IBM, with an open letter from Jonathan Schwartz to IBM CEO Sam Palmisano text below calling on Big Blue to serve its customers by porting its applications to Sun's Solaris for x86 systems. As I wrote earlier, Sun is using blogs, open letters, Web sites, and...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Sun Solaris
- Blog posts 2005-01-21
- Flaws drill holes in open-source databases
- Flaws drill holes in open-source databasespatchs patchs everywhere and not a thing to drinkWell at least they are coordinated. patch windows, patch linux, patch bsd, patch osx.. Dont matter as long as its reported, you're made aware of the vulnerability and you do what your told. that works with 3...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Linux, open source, SCO Group Inc., open-source database, security, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2004-05-19
- Satamaito Dairy Builds Compliance, Cuts Costs With IBM WebSphere Portal - Express
- EU regulations on food safety require stringent traceability, including the ability to track farmed ingredients back to their source. For companies such as Satamaito which work with numerous small suppliers, the regulations represent a significant information management challenge. The company's existing systems for process control and reporting were not designed...
- Tags: IBM WebSphere, Compliance, IBM Corp., Portals, Food & Beverage, Web Technology, Application Servers, Regulations, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Servers, Internet, Manufacturing, Software, Government, Hardware
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