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Emics Clustering Middleware Jumps into Java

Emic Networks is unleashing an update to its MySQL database and Apache server clustering middleware that brings Java-based servers into the picture, the company...

Intel, Oracle Boost Liberty Alliance by Signing On

The Liberty Alliance announced on Monday that it has signed up the worlds biggest chip maker—Intel Corp.—and its database king, Oracle Corp. The Liberty Alliance...

Expertise Location Systems: Pervasive or Invasive?

On a Tuesday afternoon last May, Brad Anderson found himself stumped. As an international trade specialist for the U.S. Commercial Service division at the...

Oracle Injects 10g Technologies Into Applications

Oracle Corp. is pushing grid computing beyond its Oracle 10g database and application server to encompass the companys enterprise applications. At the companys semiannual Analyst...

Canada Firearms: Armed Robbery

On Dec. 6, 1989, Marc Lepine walked into the University of Montreals engineering school and fired a semi-automatic military rifle at every woman he...

Answers to the Most Common Oracle 10g Upgrade Questions

How much memory does Oracle Database 10g gobble up? Does the upgrade take long? Whats the best way of upgrading from 9i to 10g?...

IBM to Buy Alphablox

IBM Corp. announced Wednesday that it has signed an agreement to acquire business intelligence tools developer Alphablox Corp., IBMs first acquisition of a BI...

Oracle Names New CFO

Oracle Corp. has named a new chief financial officer, allowing former CFO Jeff Henley to concentrate more fully on his new role as chairman...

Security Experts Debate Danger of Computing Monoculture

Ten months after co-authoring a paper positing that Microsoft Corp.s dominance in the operating system market is a hazard to the security of the...

Kattoon: July 12, 2004

Read this weeks Spencer column.