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Open source shapes up as rival to Oracle

"Research firms IDC and Gartner both predicted continued growth in worldwide sales of relational database management systems, or RDBMS, software, which enables data to be stored, manipulated and retrieved. They also said that companies' need for data warehousing will remain a main source of increases in that market.

Gartner and IDC made their assessments in reports released this week on global sales of RDBMS software in 2005..."  (ZDNET)

Microsoft to lay out business intelligence game plan

"Jeff Raikes, the president of Microsoft's Business Division, will detail the company's roadmap in business intelligence next week..." (cnet)

Massive storage array to fuel MIT research

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, a pioneering research facility in the digital technologies field, will tap a 1.4 petabyte IP storage array to help aid a three-year study into early-childhood development. (InfoWorld)

Oracle Issues First Upgrade Of Sleepycat's Berkeley DB

Oracle acquired its first open source product, the Berkeley DB embeddable database system, in February and "the integration of the two companies is going well," says Mike Olson, former CEO of Sleepycat Software and now VP at Oracle. (Intelligent Enterprise)

Massive sold to Microsoft

31-year-old Wellingtonian Claudia Batten has sold her software company to Microsoft.

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Data-mining pioneer joins Microsoft

"Rakesh Agrawal, who is credited with creating data mining, or the science of extracting trends from large and often disparate databases, has left IBM to become a Microsoft technical fellow in the company's Search Labs." http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9592_22-6072321.html http://www.almaden.ibm.com/institute/bio/index.shtml?agrawal

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