By Mary Anne Ostrom – Oracle’s Chuck Phillips is in such demand he needs his own toll-free number. And that was before his assignment became persuading big shareholders to accept his firm’s hostile bid for PeopleSoft.
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Oracle and PeopleSoft will clear antitrust hurdles
US antitrust enforcers would likely approve Oracle’s hostile takeover of rival PeopleSoft, but they might require Oracle to divest at least one of the companies’ software products first, antitrust experts say.
DB2 UDB Express Demo Program
Deploying an app with DB2 UDB Express is easy, especially if someone shows you how. Our sample ToyStore application uses a graphical installation wizard that installs the application and DB2 UDB Express.
New IBM DB2 offering addresses integration needs
By Ellen O’Brien – The product is the first to be released as a result of IBM’s Xperanto research project, and the company heralded the announcement as a major advancement in its On Demand computing initiative. IBM has described its Xperanto project as the foundation for a new class of integration s
Apache’s Xindice Organizes XML Data Without Schema
by Matt Liotta – A native XML database can make a lot of sense for organizations that want to store and access XML without all the unsightly schema mapping required to store XML in a traditional relational database system. Several commercial native XML databases exist; now, we take a first look at A
XMLSPY for VS.NET Speeds Development on .NET Platform
Altova showcased their XML development tools – including a sneak preview of the new XMLSPY plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET – at Microsoft’s TechEd 2003. The new integration features XMLSPY’s powerful XML editing views and development utilities directly accessible within the Visual Studio .N
XMLMind XML Editor 2.3
The new release includes increased support for configurable UI control, better support for documents without schema, CSS enhancements and more.
Oracle pushes PeopleSoft deal, releases marketing upgrade
By Matt Hines – On the day Oracle Corp. upped its offer for rival software maker PeopleSoft Inc., the company’s executives reiterated their belief that shareholders would approve the deal and plodded on with new products, unveiling a new marketing automation package.
Extracting Table Data Using SELECT Statement into an XML File
by Nikhil Goyal – This tip comes from Nikhil Goyal, a Team Lead in Dehli.
Do You DB2?
By Brian Moran – IBM recently stirred up the database market’s low-end price range with the release of DB2 Universal Database (UDB) Express Edition with self-managing and resource tuning (SMART) technology. Find out some ways that it will affect SQL Server users.