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Will Open Text Suffer Acquisition Indigestion?
09. 5.2008

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Yesterday I got a call from my friend Paul Steep at Scotia Capital regarding this announcement from ECM vendor Open Text. Yes, you guessed it, ECM vendor Open Text is acquring again. Just as we predicted in July the firm has announced its intentions to buy Captaris... Although this is relatively small acquisition ($131 million), it is a potentially complex one.

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Seth Grimes

BSD Licensing Puts the Shine on Google Chrome
09. 3.2008
For all the coverage of the Chrome Web browser announcement, little note has been taken of Google's choice of the ultra-liberal BSD open-source license. The BSD choice accentuates that Chrome will be more (and very likely less) than a conventional Web browser. Chrome will contribute Web rendering to an increasingly comprehensive enterprise software platform and may (further) tie non-Google application developers to the Google stack.

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Celko SQL Puzzle: Calculating Commissions
09. 2.2008

Joe Celko

How many ways can you come up with to keep track of commission amounts?... One way of spotting a design problem is when you have to use a VIEW or CTE over and over to answer basic questions. This implies that the schema has spread information over many tables that should be in one table or that it has aggregated data in one row that should be split out into multiple rows.

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Neil Raden

Just a User
09. 2.2008
When you sign up for a Webinar, or even just register to download a white paper, you can be sure that you will shortly get a follow-up phone call. The caller almost never has any inkling what you or their client does, so the questions are sometimes amusing, other times pretty dumb. I haven't gotten so old and cranky yet that this ruins my day, but I got a call last week that was notable...

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Special Report: Business Intelligence Gets Smart
September 5, 2008
by Doug Henschen
From desktop integration and BI services to smart applications and SaaS offerings, here are the trends top companies are incorporating in their BI initiatives, and what you can learn from them.

Celko on SQL: Dividing the Spoils
September 2, 2008
by Joe Celko
In this database programming challenge, SQL guru Joe Celko explores various ways to split commissions among multiple sales people.

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INFO MANAGEMENT NEWS & ANALYSIS

IBM Expands Its Information On Demand Strategy
The updated software tools help position the company as a provider of all of a business' data management needs, including content management, data cleansing, and data integration.

SaaS Doubts Boost Remote Infrastructure Services
Chiquita Brands, a SaaS believer, taps remote management services provider for e-mail chores.

A New Model: Open Source Software After It's Acquired
From MySQL to XenSource, open source companies are in increasingly high demand. For users of the software, it presents a new set of questions.

Start-Ups Bring Google's Parallel Processing To Data Warehousing
Aster and Greenplum have made Google's MapReduce compatible with SQL for use in the parallel data warehousing systems based on open source PostgreSQL.

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