In a significant step to protect the freedom to implement Web standards the W3C has announced the publication of its patent policy. After long debate, the royalty-free policy has been implemented as a result of widespread consensus.
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IBM’s Still On Top In Declining Relational Database Market
By Rick Whiting – The vendor’s share of the market rose to 36.2% last year, though overall new license revenue was down almost 7%.
Q&A: Walter Hamscher, XBRL International
By Erin Joyce – Will extensible business reporting language (XBRL) help bring reform to the financial services industry? It will do more than that, says the chairman of the standards body’s steering committee.
FIX: Merge Publications Cannot Synchronize on SQL Server 2000 SP3
You will experience one or more of the following problems when you publish a database with a binary collation for merge replication on a prior build of SQL Server and you upgrade to SQL Server 2000 SP3, or when you try to publish a database with binary collation for merge replication, after you inst
ON Technology Releases Java Application Developers Kit
ON Technology (Nasdaq: ONTC), a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure management solutions, announced the immediate availability of the ON Application Developers Kit (ADK). The new offering provides a series of open programming interfaces that significantly reduce implementation time by all
Syncsort’s Backup Express Supports SQL Server 2000 and DB2-UDB in SAP Solution Environments
A SQL Server 2000 and a DB2-UDB SAP Solution Environment Integration Assessment of Syncsort Incorporated’s enterprise data backup and restore product, Backup Express, asserted that Backup Express provided high value to SAP customers.
The Little Database Engine That Could
By David Stodder – The DB2 products for Unix and Windows were once at the back of the pack. IBM’s Berni Schiefer sheds light on their impressive rise.
Importing data into user-defined tablespaces
by Zeeshan Ahmad – Whenever data is imported from Oracle 8i on Unix into Oracle 8i on Windows 2000 Server, the data seems to be imported into the same tablespace on which the user is created. Actually, it imports the data into the SYSTEM tablespace, which increases in size. Moreover, by importing th
The OS: More Important Than You Know
By Brian Moran – Remember the OS? It’s that boring piece of software that our database engines run on. We database professionals strive for performance improvement. But while we’re worrying about tweaks, we forget about the easy changes.
Sun and Oracle collaborate over mid-market carve-up
Sun Microsystems and Oracle have launched a joint offensive on Microsoft in the mid-market, while the software giant also faces an attack from rival operating system Linux. The two vendors have combined technologies for the Oracle Collaboration Suite on Sun. They admitted that ousting Microso