Sun said in-house tests showed the application server running on a 64-way Sun Enterprise 10000 to be capable of handlingover 1, 500 Web-to-database transactions per second, and more than 2, 600 page views per second, or 225 million page viewsper day.
European scientists have turned on the first part of a web-based database of information to help them cope.
Six years ago, Mike Arrington announced CrunchBase, a free, web-based database about startups and the venture capital firms that invest in them.
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Finally, Blue World Communications added XML support to Lasso 3.5 Web Data Engine, which builds database-driven Web applications.
An example is a business with a high-traffic, database-based web site.
Securing a small business' computer systems--which might involve all sorts of gorpy stuff like firewalls, application Web network scanners, access controls and database encryption--can run into the tens of thousands of dollars, says Litan.
This may mean that you use low-cost Web-based services to provide order taking, accounting, e-mail services, database management, or a hundred other functions that are central to the operation of your business.
Suncalled the acquisition a further investment into the future of Web-based computing, to be pioneered by vendors like Oracle, with its new Sun-based Business Online database outsourcing service.
Spencer already had a small database of would-be entrepreneurs from the Web page he'd set up at Capital Express.
Last month on the CrunchBase blog, SiSense revealed CrunchAnalytics, its Web-based, free analytical platform built on top of the CrunchBase database.
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Clicker, which Lanzone and his staff of 37 call "TV Guide for the Internet Age, " now has more than 1 million TV episodes, movies and Web series in its database and a growing base of 2 million-plus monthly visitors.
The database Transparency Labs, meanwhile, is launching a free web-based service that promises to translate every contract issued by America's largest corporations and financial institutions into readable, ninth-grade-level text.
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At first, there might not seem to be much of a cross-over between protein folding and, say, running a web server or a database.
All national web-portals on medicines would be linked to the EU's "Eudravigilance" database, which contains information about medicines and side effects.
Jeremy Barbera, the chief of MSGI, claims to have pioneered the practice of database marketing for the live entertainment business back in the 1980s and originated web-based ticketing in the 1990s.
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That database, not carried on the Web, showed that in 1991 Connecticut had brought a cease-and-desist action against Orion Products Corp.
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