Stories about: Informix

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Stock service's data warehouse now delivers in seconds, not hours 11 September, 2009 05:41

Until a year ago, Pink OTC Markets Inc. had a problem. The company, which operates the Pink Sheets over-the-counter stock quotation service and the OTCQX service for foreign stocks to trade in the United States, couldn't deliver the reports its customers wanted.
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Experts: Oracle and MySQL do not create a database monopoly 21 April, 2009 07:46

Oracle Corp.'s US$7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. will bring together the world's most valuable relational database with the most popular open source one -- MySQL.
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Experts: MySQL could enable IBM to take over database market 08 April, 2009 06:44

IBM's proposal to acquire Sun Microsystems Inc. may be, for now, off the table.
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IBM adds data-warehousing tools to Informix 06 March, 2009 08:05

IBM is trying to make its Informix OLTP (online transaction processing) server a more potent option for BI (business intelligence) and data warehousing through a new optional toolset, the company announced Thursday.
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IBM spends billions on information management 28 October, 2008 10:10

Two years after pledging to spend US$1 billion on information management technologies, IBM says it has exceeded that total several times over.
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IBM joins in-memory database party 06 June, 2008 09:43

IBM has joined the in-memory database (IMDB) party after launching the IBM solidDB, which it claims will deliver data 10 times faster than a conventional relational database.
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Yahoo claims 2-petabyte database is world's biggest, busiest 23 May, 2008 08:20

The petabyte is the new petaflop.
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Doing the math on virtualization 19 May, 2008 11:57

Money is tight. Performance is declining. Your servers are all nearly three years old and pretty soon, their high-priced maintenance contract is about to kick in. What do you do?
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Your printer: An open door for hackers? 18 April, 2008 11:00

In 2003, a staff member at the Public Health Laboratory of the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care of the Province of Ontario in Canada tried to send a fax to a doctor's office. (By the way, for U.S. readers, Canada is the large blank pink region north of the border on your maps and which, contrary to popular belief, actually includes people as well as moose and beavers.) Alas, the clerk mistyped a 5 as an 8 in the fax number and inadvertently sent medical records to a local gasoline station. The owner very kindly gave the fax to a doctor who was a regular customer and the doctor reported the breach of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act .
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Please see me in person 14 April, 2008 11:22

"Well-qualified, capable, generalist with management, software development, Web programming, quality assurance, documentation, multiple languages and extensive China experience seeks interim or regular employment."
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Database pioneer continues to bash RDBMS 26 February, 2008 09:09

Database guru Michael Stonebraker, one of the pioneers of the relational database model, continues to bash the way relational database management systems (RDBMS) stores data.