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Oracle today heralded Melbourne Health as the first Australian customer for its 11g database, which is still a beta test version.
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Oracle has been talking up its latest database offering -- but the signs are that Oracle customers will wait a few years before moving to 11g.
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Despite having a quality management product on the books at Western Power, no one was using it, causing the energy company to have problems with software development quality.
Multicore processors have been around since 2005, when Intel shipped its first dual-core processor and the advantages of many cores have been widely touted, but a working model for costing software to work with them is still on its way.
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Oracle has finally jumped on the "free" database bandwagon, joining the likes of IBM, Microsoft and Sybase. Will users bite?
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Trendy techies will love the Iomega's chic looks and compact size but users with severe flash memory shortfalls should look elsewhere for at least a 256MB model.
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