If Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems goes through, it will have an even bigger open-source portfolio including MySQL, a popular program for databases.
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The basic, Office 365 Home Premium subscription package also comes with PowerPoint for presentations, OneNote for note-taking, Outlook for e-mail, Publisher for desktop publishing and Access for databases.
As for databases that do include the whole run of U.S. history, those at measuringworth.com show an increase in national output of 43% from 1878 to 1882, a peacetime period.
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RFLP-based databases, it will probably be true manyfold for medical databases that hold data on particular genes, and may well be linked to samples that could, in the fullness of time, yield the complete genome of an individual.
Meanwhile, three-year-old Code For America, a nonprofit that recruits experienced coders nationally for projects like building databases for local governments, has expanded its annual fellowship program from three to nine projects and last year launched a broad "brigade" of volunteer techies to work on ad hoc civic programs.
Right now, NCR's Teradata software is the leader in the market for gargantuan databases contained in data warehouses.
The commission worries that a union between Oracle and Sun would reduce competition in the market for corporate databases.
Question: Does it mean there are two version of SAP business suite, one for HANA and one for other databases.
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There are some tweaks that will be needed for specific databases, but SAP will provide the information to make it work.
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Doug Cutting, then working at Yahoo, saw its potential and created Hadoop, which works with off-the-shelf hardware to manage data too big for conventional databases.
Skytree is a machine learning program intended to serve as a replacement for SQL databases, and has the ability to take even unstructured sets of data and crunch it faster than traditional methods.
Protrade uses raw sports data from Stats, Inc. to build massive play-by-play databases for each of the three major sports.
After that embarrassing discovery, a renewed effort was made to search for any more databases, and Kearney's turned up.
At the low-price end, open-source upstarts MySQL and Enterprisedb have hawked cheaper, nimbler databases for a few years, possibly squeezing Ingres out.
The makers of navigation devices and mobile phones are eagerly looking to their databases for new ideas to keep people buying new hardware.
The system can gather data from security cameras, license-plate readers, radiation detectors and 911 calls and hunt through dozens of existing law-enforcement databases for related information.
We rely heavily on the databases for all data, as well as the latest financial period available for our rankings (the final database screen was run in mid-March).
Richard Gliklich, a Harvard professor, runs a profitable, closely-held business called Outcome that develops such prospective databases for big drug companies and organizations like the American Heart Association.
While Siri relies on external databases for answers, such as the online encyclopedia Wolfram Alpha, Evi has a painstakingly amassed collection of 635 million facts on 28 million things.
An agency official declined to to name the foreign government, but said the FBI took various investigative steps, including looking at his travel history and checking databases for derogatory information.
Businesses with broader network concerns can look to platforms from SMB-focused companies such as Check Point Software, Trend Micro and Imperva, which offers a free, downloadable tool that scans databases for security vulnerabilities.
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Now every night the integrator scours databases for product information from Japan, updates from a Nebraska manufacturer, warehouse inventory at its four distribution centers, wholesale transactions with the dealers, and local inventory and retail sales.
Maritz also said the company has a strategy of creating easy ways for non-SQL databases to plug into cloud environments.
They were great for formatting documents, and for building spreadsheets and databases.
Suffice it to say that along with Oracle database software, we'll need cheap, massively parallel machines as servers for these huge online databases.
For all its success, for instance, Oracle Japan sells its databases through other Japanese software houses, which continue to charge for their services (now packaged with an Oracle database) on a fixed-price basis.
One reason for that is that many corporate databases are built to handle what the company needs to operate, not what the customer wants for satisfaction.
It may mean rethinking how big databases are built for growth, because the underlying assumptions of predictable behavior are obsolete.
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The vice-president said recommendations could include universal background checks for gun buyers and updating databases with information about convicted criminals.
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Online transaction processing databases are used for recording transactions in real time.
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