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SAS chief executive Jim Goodnight has poured cold water on speculation that the business-intelligence company might merge with its former rival, data warehousing software company Teradata.
The New Zealand Customs Service has started planning a major upgrade of its internal data warehouse, which has already played a crucial role in helping to identify and apprehend drug traffickers.
Australia's fifth largest bank St George has completed a refresh of its data warehouse systems on the eve of its likely merger with larger rival Westpac.
The nation's number two airline Virgin Blue has revealed it will shortly outsource the management of its key Oracle E-Business applications following a major upgrade of the systems.
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The chief information officer of Healthscope tells us why, despite a stakeholder bent for an SAP or Oracle supply chain and financial system, the Australian healthcare giant opted for Queensland-based vendor Technology One instead.
What will 2009 hold for Australia's ICT industry? We asked dozens of local leaders for their predictions; and this is what they came up with.
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At Oracle's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, CEO Larry Ellison previews the company's Exadata Version 2 computer. He says the new database computer is designed for online transaction processing and data warehousing. He adds that Exadata 2 can do faster processing at a much lower cost than its biggest competitor, IBM.
SQL Server 2005 has finally hit the market and brought with it significant new features and changes from previous versions. We'll explain the various editions of SQL Server 2005 take a look at the new management console.
We review four network attached storage (NAS) appliances designed to ease the storage load on your servers and the workload on your admins.
New notebooks, mapping software and data warehousing software can't compete with wine software in our book. Check out all of this week's Australian product announcements.
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IBM is turning its database server into an end-to-end offering more complete than any other except Microsoft's SQL Server 7.0, which has similar capabilities in a somewhat easier-to-use package.
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