by Ken North – XML, Web services, analytics, and other hot technologies have the leading relational DBMS providers working overtime to remain the best choice for managing all of your data. Here’s a look at what IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle are doing.
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META Group Performance Evaluation
Read this META Group evaluation to see how SQL Server 2000 and Windows 2000 Datacenter Server performed on a scalability test run by Unisys and Accenture.
From “Try & Buy” to Production Database
Join Marin Komadina as he explains what the DBA needs to know regarding licensing, database packaging models, on a Sun Solaris platform.
Using Python to access DB2 for Linux
Python is a great tool to use with DB2. It combines the ability to quickly and simply access a DB2 database with the power to perform more complex tasks that require a general purpose programming language. This tutorial shows you everything you need to know to interact with DB2 V8.1 using the Python
Inside IBM’s Middleware Kingdom
By Darryl K. Taft – In the software industry, Microsoft Corp. may own the desktop, but IBM owns just about everything else. The Armonk, N.Y., company, which hatched its Software Group 10 years ago, has grown to become the second-largest software provider in the world, behind Microsoft. The reason, a
Oracle Upgrade Enhances Sales Processes
By Eileen Colkin Cuneo – The latest version of Oracle Sales streamlines processes such as proposal generation, with the goal of making sales reps more effective.
Startups Pushing The Idea Of Web-Services Hubs
By Charles Babcock – Blue Titan is trying to create Web-services hubs in the enterprise where an existing networked service can be called and reused by more than one application.
The XML.com Interview: Steven Pemberton
by Russell Dyer – At the top of the HTML hierarchy stands Steven Pemberton, chair of the HTML working group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). A lover of language, a writer, and an editor, as well as an organizer and a leader in the web community, he has had both subtle and profound influences
Sun unveils low-end servers, alliances with Red Hat, Oracle
By Jan Stafford – While extending its partnerships with Oracle Corp. and Red Hat Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc. staked its claim as the leader in low-cost computing by unveiling two new x86-based servers. The $2,450 Sun Fire V60x and $2,650 V65x servers are priced lower than comparable servers from IBM
Apache’s Xindice Organizes XML Data Without Schema
by Matt Liotta – A native XML database makes 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; take a first look at Apache’s open source