The paper is based on data from Medicare beneficiaries included in an American College of Cardiology Foundation registry of patients who got angioplasty and stent procedures and in another database on bypass surgery maintained by the Society of Thoracic Surgeons.

WSJ: Heart Bypass Surgery May Offer Lower Death Risk Than Angioplasty

Another is based solely on the contents of a database of academic articles.

ECONOMIST: University rankings

Another feature called "Expert On-Demand, " sorts through a company's database of experts to create a video connection between a user--say, a confused customer in a bank's branch office--and the person best suited to answer his or her questions on any given topic.

FORBES: Enterprise

Even though Forbes magazine has been around for 85 years, and Forbes.com for a decade, we can't just assume that the company will be around in another 20 years--or that a database and application will be safe sitting on our servers for that long.

FORBES: E-Mail Time Capsule

However, another user was more keen on the idea of an NT-free server environment running an Oracle database.

CNN: Users wary of Oracle lightweight OS idea