Oracle invited PeopleSoft customers to submit their questions about its acquisition plans via email as part of a virtual "town hall" meeting this week. Phillips, a seasoned Morgan Stanley analyst who joined Oracle in May, fielded the email...
Then it will be easier to ask simple, fundamental questions about the projects and the way in which government goes about buying technology. Are the simplest questions about effectiveness really being tackled?
Some vendors such as SAP and Oracle are beginning to offer RFID technology built into their products, and this will have the advantage of making data handling faster, but it won't solve everyone's problems.
The Mambo web content management system needs a new mechanism for handling access controls. Handling complexity is one of the various trade-offs that have to be made. The next step is to design an implementation of mechanisms to store the...
When people buy goods and it is used for track and trace, there are some very vital questions," he said. With new environments and new technologies, we have to ask new questions. Hustinx also has his reservations about biometrics, currently being...
The high-profile squabble over Comcast's slowdown of BitTorrent file-sharing traffic - and broader questions of network handling by ISPs - is set for public scrutiny at a federal hearing today. The FCC in 2005 said broadband companies should not...