Office of Fair Trading not convincedCapita's £78m takeover of IBS Opensystems Software has been referred to the Competition Commission.… read more » DiscussBury
It seems to be an Iron Law. As a database structure grows more complex the cost of shifting vendors becomes prohibitive. Free becomes expensive and expensive nearly free. read more » DiscussBury
Will use data stored on ID cardsIdentity checks will normally rely on the biometric data held on cards and passports rather than the National Identity Register… read more » DiscussBury
Will use data stored on ID cardsIdentity checks will normally rely on the biometric data held on cards and passports rather than the National Identity Register… read more » DiscussBury
Open-source database vendor Ingres unveiled Ingres Database 9.2 on Tuesday, the first major release of the venerable software in more than a year.A number of improvements center on improving availabi read more » DiscussBury
Seth Rosenblatt writes about KidZui, "a closed system of pre-approved content, and although it seems to function like a browser, there's no way to use it to access the Internet directly. Instead, read more » DiscussBury
'Big' data and the BI challengeMainstream database management system (DBMS) technology faces a challenge from new approaches that reject the relational model. The battleground is set to be the market read more » DiscussBury