One company not likely to benefit from the partnership is IBM, whose WebSphere product competes with JBoss, said Redmonk analyst Stephen O'Grady. The JBoss deal is "probably one of the strongest proof points to date that different types of business...
IT leaders are probably realising that to really benefit from open source you have to be a part of it, and that takes a significant investment in both time and risk, which respectively we don't have and find hard to justify," he said.
Data mining specialist, SAS Institute, is in talks with a major pharmaceutical company which could result in bespoke medication based on the genetic make-up of individual people. According to Helton, the first real benefit will be to identify...
Toby Detter, customer service programme director at Shell, which has implemented a large-scale CRM project, said: "We haven't had problems with the data mining side of CRM but it depends on what you're trying to do.
Classic fashion retailer Jaeger is about to start a data-mining project as part of a £120,000 effort to curb the loss of stock from crime or waste - known in the industry as shrinkage. The data-mining application, supplied by IDM Software will...
IBM DB2 Intelligent Miner Scoring allows businesses to make faster decisions by driving data mining intelligence to customer, supplier and employee information. In addition, Jones said to make data mining more useful, IBM is working with a group of...