By Alorie Gilbert – Oracle is making a more concerted effort to sell hosting services for its line of e-business applications, database and application-server software, in hopes of boosting the company’s flagging sales, the company told securities analysts in New York on Thursday.
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Sun, Oracle, IBM Among Vendors To Support New Portal Standard
By Barbara Darrow & Elizabeth Montalbano – At JavaOne a bevy of vendors including Sun and IBM will push a new standard for developing portals. The Java Specification Request (JSR) 168 standard will be supported in new toolkits from Sun and Oracle debuting next week, said a source familiar wit
Restoring Your Database Safely
By Joe Lax – As I’ve shown in my previous 10-Minute Solution, "Choosing the Right Backup in SQL Server," SQL Server provides you with numerous ways to back up your database, allowing you to choose the options that best suit your situation. However, the best backup solution comes to naught if you don
XLink: Who Cares?
XLink was part of the original plan for XML, along with XSL, but has taken a long time to reach completion and has inspired few implementations. Bob DuCharme asks why.
SQL Server 2000, XML and XSL: The Ultimate Combination
By Mitchell Harper – All the hype that once surrounded XML is finally starting to die down, and developers are really beginning to harness the power and flexibility of the language. XML is a data descriptive language that uses a set of user-defined tags to describe data in a hierarchically structure
Java Technology and XML Part 3: Performance Improvement Tips
By Thierry Violleau – Neither JavaTM nor XML Technology need an introduction, nor the synergy between the two: "Portable Code and Portable Data." With the growing interest in web services and e-business platforms, XML is joining Java in the developer's toolbox. As of today, no less than
Pricing change irks Oracle customer
By Alorie Gilbert – A pricing disagreement between Oracle and some of its database software customers has IT analyst firm Meta Group urging customers not to pay the database software maker additional licensing fees.
Security flaws leave Oracle users exposed
By James Middleton – Oracle was left red-faced last week when security watchdog Cert released an advisory pinpointing no less than 37 security problems in Oracle’s “unbreakable” database.The long list of vulnerabilities comes just over a month after the company was forced to release patches
Introducing XML::SAX::Machines, Part Two
by Kip Hampton – In last month's column we began our introduction to XML::SAX::Machines, a group of modules which greatly simplifies the creation of complex SAX application with multiple filters. This month we pick up where we left off by further illustrating how XML::SAX::Machines can be used t
Sun, Partners Introduce New XML Standard
By Elizabeth Montalbano – Sun Microsystems and some of its technology partners submitted a new XML specification to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).Called XML Pipeline Definition Language, the specification is designed to define the sequence of application processes in Web services, incr