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- Clouds vs. Appliances
- I still prefer DistributedWhen you set up the Namespace "properly" a sysadmin can handle both client and server machines - i.e. No gurus vs. grunts. With the same configuration on all machines, it is easy to bring machines up in short order. Client maintenance consists of 1) Reboot and then...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-10
- Packaged software, an accident of history
- "government engineered" ????"dysfunctional business model"Sounds like someone is looking for a new "revenue stream"!This sounds suspiciously like the "lease a car" vs "rent a car" debate. Change the looks of the same old clunker to "generate sales" without really improving anything.Feudal Europe had the royalty owning the land and...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-24
- Sybase Webcast "Replication 15.2. Do More with your Data"
- During this on-demand Web seminar you will learn how Sybase Replication Server enables you to move and synchronize data across the hetergeneous enterprise, faster than ever before, adressing a wide array of needs including: Data Movement, Distribution and Synchronization System Migration ...
- Webcasts 2009-08-01
- IBM goes deeply predictive, announces acquisition of SPSS
- IBM dropped a big bombshell at the start of any already action-packed day for the analyst community. At this moment, I’m sitting, along with several dozen of my peers from Forrester and other firms, at the IBM Smart Analytics System launch event in Hawthorne NY. I’ll blog on IBM’s other...
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- Deploying Mirror Activator With EMC Storage
- The presenter of this webcast will provide overview of EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility SRDF with Sybase Mirror Activator. Ensuring system and database availability with zero data loss achievable in the event of a system outage for Sybase and Oracle.
- Webcasts 2009-06-29
- U.S. Army servers breached by Turkish hackers
- U.S. Army servers breached by Turkish hackers A question that puzzles meWhy on Earth is an US Army's Ammunition Plant and an US Army Corps of Engineers running insecure software from M$, more precisely Microsoft SQL Server?Presumably there are many other critical US institutions running dangerous software from M$. The...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-01
- How IT can help save the global financial system
- The ongoing global economic downturn, or "Great Recession" as it has been billed, exposed weaknesses in the U.S. financial system and the widespread interdependence of global financial markets. But what about the weaknesses in the information technology infrastructure that makes the global financial system what it is...
- Blog posts 2009-05-26
- DBManager Professional 3.4.6 (Windows)
- Application for Database Management with Enterprise features like: task builder; server monitoring; diagram designer; form and report builders; import and export data (MSAccess, MSExcel, Paradox, FoxPro, Dbase/Clipper, ODBC, text, html and xml files); query builder, debugger and planner; dependencies browser; database control version system; database comparer; procedure builder. Supports MySQL,...
- Software downloads 2009-04-26
- Veritas CommandCentral Disaster Recovery Advisor
- Symantec, a long time player in the virtualiation technology market, has just launched the Veritas CommandCentral Disaster Recovery Advisor. It is designed to help organizations evaluate their disaster recovery plans by scanning the organization's IT infrastructure and comparing what it sees to a very large knowledgebase of potential problems. ...
- Blog posts 2009-04-08
- Enterprise Geeks demo SAP ABAP server on iPhone
- In what many are calling a technology breakthrough, the Enterprise Geeks have managed to shoehorn an SAP ABAP server onto the iPhone. Per the blurbs: There were some obvious technical challenges to getting a piece of software that was designed for 64-bit memory architecture and...
- Blog posts 2009-04-01
- Turtles vs. Hares
- In Aesop's version of the story a bragging rabbit challenges a turtle to a race, and then loses because he shoots so far ahead he becomes overconfident enough to take a nap, only to find on waking that the turtle has made it over the finish line. ...
- Blog posts 2009-03-11
- RDBMS license costs and Open Source
- A comment by frequent contributor JesperFrimann last week caused me to take a closer look at licensing practices among major commercial database vendors other than Microsoft. All three of the big guys (Oracle, IBM, and Sybase) follow the same basic sales model: ...
- Blog posts 2009-03-09
- Simple cost/benefit and the systems upgrade
- Simple cost/benefit and the systems upgradeAnecdotal evidenceThis is the Nth time you use this particular setup of the two 690s as a basis for comparison between AIX/Power and Solaris/Whatever. As stated in another post the problems with that system has nothing to do with AIX but with design.I can counter...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-04
- Crossbow's golden arrows
- Crossbow's golden arrowsOk so all this network stuff is really cool.....but like Sun's CPU stratergy it seems as if it is competing with itself. Will this tempt away Linux customers. Ummm.. NO! Will it cause Cisco to loose market share. Umm.. NO!Perhaps it will make existing Solaris users stick with...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-26
- SoftTree SQL Assistant 4.5.09 (Windows)
- Productivity tools for Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2, and MS Access database developers. SQL Assistant equips database developers and DBAs with the 3rd generation SQL IntelliSense and other productivity tools SQL Developers need to speed up the database development process, improve code quality and accuracy. SQL Assistant Increases...
- Software downloads 2009-02-16
- Docs2Manage and Docs2Web Suite 2.21 (Windows)
- Docs2Manage and Docs2Web Suite allows you to scan, import, extract keywords OCR, search, view, e-mail, create PDF documents, print, and ultimately manage any type of document into an easy-to-use Windows Explorer like interface. Docs2Manage and Docs2Web Suite includes a database to get you started, but offers a wide range of...
- Software downloads 2008-11-24
- Sybase ASE High Availability Configuration on HP-UX
- HP MC/ServiceGuard (MC/SG) software is used to create high availability clusters on HP 9000 PA-RISC systems and Intel Itanium-based HP Integrity systems running HP-UX. A cluster is generally a networked group of servers having sufficient redundancy of software and hardware that a single point of failure will not significantly disrupt...
- White papers 2008-09-01
- Open Source, Dtrace, and tuning
- Open Source, Dtrace, and tuningComment.I knew a guy who only drove old Renaults. He did this, because he knew he could fix them. The cars had presented him many occaisions on which he was able to prove this.I, on the other hand, drive Audis, because I beleive I'll never have...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-21
- N-Tier: Rube Goldberg meets Wintel Scalability
- N-Tier: Rube Goldberg meets Wintel ScalabilityStore procedures and serializationHow did stored procedures solve the serialization problem?If they did, it sounds like an accident due to programmers not understanding transactions and unknowingly switching from a very pessimistic locking strategy to an overly optimistic locking strategy.RE: N-Tier: Rube Goldberg meets Wintel ScalabilitySo,...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-05
- N-Tier: Rube Goldberg meets Wintel Scalability
- The core claim made by N-tier architecture proponents is that this structure breaks an application into modular elements that can be separately maintained and used for more than one application. In the simplest possible version of this you have at least one database server, at least one...
- Blog posts 2008-05-05







