By Renee Boucher Ferguson – The U.S. Department of Justice Monday issued a second request to Oracle Corp. requiring more information regarding that company’s bid to acquire rival PeopleSoft Inc., according to a release put out by Oracle this afternoon.
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IBM announces the world’s first 10 terabyte TPC-H benchmark result
DB2, the most scalable database in the world, combined with the most scalable Unix servers reaches a new milestone in enterprise data warehousing. Gartner Group estimates that by 2004, enterprises will face 30 times as much data as they handled three years ago. By 2005, says Gartner, the aver
The OLAP-Aware Database
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W3C Releases Latest Version Of SOAP
The World Wide Web Consortium released the latest version of SOAP, a key specification in emerging web services standards.
DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide
Bob Stayton has released DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide, an online book covering “all aspects of DocBook XML publishing tools, including installing, using, and customizing the XSL stylesheets and processing tools.”
Book Review: SQL Server 2000 for the Oracle DBA
By Vyas Kondreddi – This new ebook helps Oracle DBAs learn SQL Server 2000 and get upto speed quickly!
Microsoft Releases Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 (SP4)
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XML Publishing with Cocoon 2, Part 1
Apache Cocoon is an XML-publishing framework that allows you to build powerful applications from customized components. Yeah, that’s a mouthful. Collin VanDyck and David Cummings demonstrate Cocoon’s sitemap and XML generation capabilities.