Chris Kanaracus

Articles by Chris Kanaracus

Free data warehouse tools pack serious data-crunching power

Data warehousing vendors are offering free, open-source versions that actually pack some heat. IDC predicts the market will grow to $10.8 billion in 2013

Momentum builds for open content management standard

A proposed standard for making content management systems interoperable is close to being ratified.

Salesforce.com announces social-networking app

Salesforce.com opened up its annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco on Wednesday by previewing Salesforce Chatter, a social-networking application the vendor dubbed a "Facebook for the Enterprise."

Benioff trumpets Force.com

Salesforce.com CEO decries the software maintenance fees charged by the likes of Oracle and urges developers to come to Force.com where 135,000 custom apps have been built quickly and inexpensively

Customers can gain from being a vendor reference

Linking arms with a vendor can provide honest, lasting advantages, which are ever more welcome in this age of slashed IT budgets and shrunken staffs

SAP denies helping Oracle with Sun deal

In a statement, SAP strongly denies 'misleading speculation' raised in a recent Wall Street Journal editorial. SAP says it is concerned for the database market and the future open licensing of Java

Informatica updates data integration platform

Emphasizing improved data quality, version 9 aims at tying together on-premise and cloud systems

IBM announces cloud software-development betas

Big Blue is prepping pay-as-you-go infrastructure as well as full-lifecycle services for private clouds

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