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Sun Microsystems’ definitive agreement to acquire open source database vendor MySQL in a US$1billion deal seems like a lot of money for a company that has revenues in the region of US$50-60 million. MySQL certainly needed to generate additional funds in order to bring its products into the mainstream Database Management System (DBMS) market and to compete directly with Oracle and IBM.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 05/03/2008 - Rob Hailstone
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Wisely timing their announcements until the Christmas holiday period finally sank below the horizon (as opposed to IBM’s acquisition of Solid – see OpinionWire “IBM Buys into the In-Memory Database World”, 10 January), Oracle and Sun both unfortunately chose the same day – Wednesday 16th January – to make major acquisition announcements in the software infrastructure space, with the calls coming within an hour of each other. The more headline-catching of the two was Oracle’s announcement of an agreement …
OpinionWire Articles - published 23/01/2008 - Rob Hailstone
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With rather uninspired timing, on 21 December (when most of the Western world had its focus firmly on the Christmas holiday period), IBM announced that it was to acquire the Finnish company Solid Information Technology. Solid is a provider of In-Memory Database (IMDB) technology, claiming over three million deployments in real-time applications.
OpinionWire Articles - published 11/01/2008 - Rob Hailstone
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Remember the late 1990s when IT vendors were trying to come up with the latest acronym that they could sell into the market: the newest ‘must-have’ for enterprises? That was the age of Knowledge Management. Perhaps age is not quite the correct word as Knowledge Management sparkled only briefly in the firmament of IT professionals, before they had to get back to the more mundane tasks of ensuring that they helped keep the lights on in the business.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 06/09/2007 - Mike Thompson
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SAND/DNA Analytics is a data management system that is designed to speed up analytics whilst minimising data storage requirements. The column-based nature of SAND/DNA Analytics is complemented with tokenisation, bit-arrays, automatic indexing of data, and streamlined processing techniques.
Technology Audits - published 24/04/2007 - Sarah Burnett
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SAND/DNA Access is a data repository that can be used to store large volumes of data in a highly-compacted and yet accessible form on-demand. SAND/DNA Access uses Column-Based Architecture Technology (CBAT), tokenisation, and compression to compact data into 10%-15% of its original volume. In this way data can be efficiently stored outside of transactional systems or data warehouses, using the minimum amount of disk space. SAND/DNA Access does not offer any Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities on its ownéeC? SAND/DNA Access is a data repository that can be used to...
Technology Audits - published 24/04/2007 - Sarah Burnett
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EnterpriseDB is an enterprise-level Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) offering a high level of compatibility with the leading mainstream enterprise databases, most notably Oracle. EnterpriseDB is perhaps unique in that although it is based on the Open Source PostgreSQL code base to which it continues to contribute, it has made significant extensions and improvements to this code. The result is a database and supporting services that aim to compare in speed and scalability to Oracle, and that …
Technology Audits - published 14/03/2007 - Martin Gandar
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Information within public and private organisations has seen a gradual evolution since the first days of computing systems. In the earliest days of information technology, computers provided a means of merely processing data at faster and faster speeds.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 01/11/2006 - Kevin Kline
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