Today Microsoft is fighting for its life against Google, Apple and hundreds of other knock-offs of its office, browsing and database applications.
"It's better for us to spend that capital on database applications and code instead of making sheet metal, " says Mark Hurd, vice president of worldwide marketing for NCR's computer systems group.
To run analytics, data had to be extracted out of the database into applications like SAS and proprietary NYSE apps to perform necessary analysis.
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Next up, according to Soni, will be the applications and database software that run on top of Linux.
We expect Oracle to continue to increase its share in the database as well as applications software market.
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Finally, Blue World Communications added XML support to Lasso 3.5 Web Data Engine, which builds database-driven Web applications.
In short, Oracle becomes the indirect beneficiary of SaaS applications market growth since these applications require database and middleware software to be deployed on servers.
And on March 24th, Novell announced that it would work with Oracle, the world's biggest database firm, to develop applications for intranets.
Middleware is the link that connects applications to the database.
Front-end applications access the database to display data online.
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In most applications, a NoSQL database will require less up-front planning, and offer more flexibility as the application evolves.
Hence, applications, middleware and database software all go hand-in-hand.
Participate in the analysis of user requirements and their translation into database models and the implementation of software applications.
Scientific data: Yet another direction comes from SciDB, a database project aimed at the largest scientific applications (particularly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope).
Mullenweg countered with the fact that all Web applications must either store their database credentials in plain text or keep a plaintext decryption key around somewhere.
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Other applications might be more robust internal database search for e-discovery or for scientific analysis of large datasets.
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To offset that inevitable slowdown in new database sales, Ellison has been betting big on applications software.
The consistency, reliability and availability is just not there yet to think about OLTP applications running on top of a NoSQL database.
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The most recent iteration of the big-ticket package, Oracle's E-Business Suite, is a set of business applications designed to work with a single database.
You can buy your applications as a service, buy your database and middleware as a service, and buy your storage and servers also as a service.
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Oracle mainly competes with IBM, Hewlett-Packard in the hardware business, IBM and Microsoft in database and middleware software business and SAP in the applications software business.
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Pope believes that companies only need a 64-bit operating system and database, and that the majority of 32-bit applications currently available will run on top of the 64-bit platform without sacrificing performance.
Apigee Insights is a recognition in essence, that a fourth tier must be introduced into applications in addition to UI, Server, and Database.
Companies can buy a 10-processor system, for example, and allocate one processor to a firewall, one to caching, two to a database, and six to balancing application workload, thereby making those applications highly available.
The activity stream applications could then use that contact information to update a contact database.
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Mr Ellison argues that the e-business suite standardises data, putting it in one database where it can be manipulated by a complete and integrated suite of applications.
Instead of trying to revamp JIMS with brand-new technology, Harris County has stuck to its grand-design architecture by migrating its legacy database to the more current Model 204 Database Management System, made by Computer Corporation of America, and rewriting Cobol applications in the Model 204 language.
SaaS software applications such as customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning are deployed alongside database and middleware software.
Applications act as a front end interface for a user, while the database is where the data is actually stored.
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