The government has already set itself the task of establishing the PE principle by March 2000 - an ambitious target that could cause a few sleepless nights. This month the Inland Revenue (IR) and Her Majesty's Customs & Excise (C&E) are due...
Fastest TPC-C benchmarks in its class. World class database management included with the operating system. With hot swap components in the current models. This results in much more stability, without the problems associated with integrating these...
The ProLiant BL e-Class server is the first of the company's "blade" servers, which will be rolled out throughout the year. The Proliant BL e-Class costs $1,799 per server, a rack can hold up to 280. Compaq has taken the wraps off a server that...
IBM, Microsoft and Oracle are establishing strong positions in the developing web services market - while rivals HP and Sun are faltering. Meanwhile Microsoft, long considered the company that tries to own such emerging markets, is showing a new...
During the company's most recent profits call, Ellison said: "We're trying to be best in class - open and hot-pluggable with competing components. But we hope over time, if Oracle does a good job in delivering its components, [customers will] use...
There are numerous first-class open source classes in a variety of languages to carry out specialised operations. SOA looks very much like the old established notion of software components linked with the even older adage that there are no products...