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Semantic Search Footnotes: Concepts, Ontologies & Real Time
I want to respond to a few comments/suggestions I received about my recent Intelligent Enterprise story, Breakthrough Analysis: Two + Nine Types of Semantic Search. Jim Hendler suggested a semantic-search approach I'd missed, "real-time search with some sort of filtering." I'll tackle that and points raised by NLP/semantics researcher Tom O'Hara...
Oracle Announces Sun Java Roadmap
The database giant's executive VP, Thomas Kurian, details how Oracle plans to integrate Sun's software into its product lines.
Google Docs, Sites Dropping IE 6 Support
Old browsers are being put out to pasture so new Web technologies can run free.
Apple iPad Arrives Amid Controversy
Skeptics dismiss the iPad as underwhelming and limiting while developers see dollar signs.
Oracle on SharePoint: Waiting for Answers
Oracle today doesn't seem to have an explicit answer to the foamy wave that is SharePoint. Will Oracle deliver on collaboration requirements?
Search Keywords Mean Business
Businesses that focus on branded searches may be missing out on the visitor traffic that comes from generic search terms.
Microsoft Enterprise Sales Fizzle
Redmond posted record quarterly revenue, but most of the growth was driven by a recovery in consumer sales.
Informatica Buys Siperian, Reports Strong Earnings
The data integration firm steps into the master data management market with the $130 million acquisition.
Informatica Buys MDM Vendor, Reports Strong Growth
Siperian acquisition bolsters data quality offerings. Revenues surpass $500 million.
Sybase Reports Record Earnings, Updates Adaptive Server
The company's flagship relational database product now offers in-memory capability for sensitive transaction-based operations.
Global CIO: Oracle's Ellison Challenges IBM, NetApp And—Well—Everyone
Is Larry Ellison's silicon-to-application strategy the next wave, or is he 50 years out of phase?
Google Social Search Reaches Beta
It just got easier to tap the wisdom of your friends online.
MicroStrategy Says It's Time for Mobile BI
"We are on the verge of a new era that will result in a new class of applications that will change the way we think about our business," says MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor. That era will be driven largely by mobile... Yes, mobile.
Apple Releases iPad SDK In Beta
The software development kit is available to individuals and enterprises who wish to build proprietary tablet applications.
SAP CEO Details Prospects For 2010
Leo Apotheker is looking to the software firm's forthcoming Business ByDesign suite to boost revenue after a difficult 2009.
Oracle Outlines Post Merger Roadmap
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said Sun Microsystems will add $1.5 billion to Oracle's profitability within a year of the just-completed merger of the two companies.
Apple iPad Backlash Begins
The pre-release hype has given way to complaints about the device's supposed shortcomings.
SAP Comments on 2009 Drop, Prospects for 2010
Seeing an upturn, executives highlight fourth-quarter revenue increase in the U.S. and Asia.
Down To Business: Oracle v. Rimini Has Huge Ramifications
Can the decades-old enterprise software model hold up against the forces of upstart competition and price arbitrage?
Apple iPad Promises Media Revolution
The early speculation is that the tablet brings publishers hopes of new revenue for digital content while ushering in a shift in how users interact with the Web.
Global CIO: Oracle-Sun Biggest Challenge Isn't Technology—It's People
Sun's founder and its CEO exhort Sun employees to embrace Oracle, and Larry Ellison promises miminal Sun layoffs. Can they make it work?
Cisco Offers Open Telepresence Standard
In agreeing to release its protocol to the public domain, Cisco joins Juniper Networks and Polycom in the growing trend toward collaboration among videoconferencing providers.
Netezza Skimmer Joins the Short List
The main news here is that you can buy a Netezza box for $125K, plug it in, load a few terabytes of data, and be good to go with a pretty solid data warehouse...
Oracle To Detail Post-Acquistion Sun Microsystems Roadmap
Oracle on Wednesday will detail its post-acquisition plans for Sun Microsystems, which include preserving the Ultrasparc processor.
Novell Launches SUSE Appliance Toolkit
Building software appliances may become a standard way for distributing software
Most Hospitals Increasing IT Spending
Government regulatory issues and financial incentives were named as the top drivers in a survey of hospital IT executives.
Insurance Database Connects Dots on Truck Theft
Integrating multiple sources, CargoNet will drive nationwide alerting and truck stop watch programs.
Oracle Sues Rimini Street For 'Massive Theft'
Rimini's heavily discounted support offerings for Siebel, JD Edwards, and PeopleSoft apps are illegal, Oracle claims in court documents.
Sentiment Analysis, Enterprise Content, and Social Media, Year 2010
Sentiment analysis is one of the most challenging and one of the most interesting uses of text technologies. Application areas include customer satisfaction and support, marketing, financial markets, media and publishing, and politics and policy. That's why I've created a new conference, the Sentiment Analysis Symposium, slated for April 13 in New York...
Global CIO: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's Top 10 Reasons For Buying Sun
New customer value, Sun's great technology, an IBM fixation, resetting the IT landscape, something deeply personal, and more.
Hear BI Survey Results, Plus Donald Farmer
I'll present the results of the latest Intelligent Enterprise business intelligence survey and Donald Farmer of Microsoft will surely talk about the new PowerPivot add-ins for in-memory analysis in Excel. That should be enough to attract more than a few registrants to this week's "BI Agenda for 2010" webinar. But there's more...
Judge Slashes Music Sharing Fine
The $1.92 million fine levied against Jammie Thomas-Rasset for illegally downloading music was cut to $54,000.
Netezza Rolls Out Entry-Level Data Warehouse Appliance
At $12,500 per terabyte, Skimmer release targets analytic applications, data-marts and development environments.
Apple Tablet Revealed By Analytics Data
Flurry, a company that collects online data about ads, claims to have detected Apple's widely anticipated tablet device.
Mathias On Mobility: The Infocentric Era
Our columnist says that, as IT resources and applications move into the cloud, the computer no longer matters--only the information does.
HP And Microsoft To Compete Against Oracle/Sun
Two weeks ago, HP and Microsoft announced they would jointly spend $250 million to better integrate their hardware and software systems. That's one of the first reactions to Oracle's expected acquisition of Sun Microsystems and its entry into the hardware business. More such alliances are likely to spring out of the ranks of Oracle's competitors.
Text Analytics Drives Customer Insight
By uniting intelligence from customer surveys and social media with conventional business intelligence, companies are moving beyond transactions to understand customer behavior.
Boxed Software Revenues Slipping
The 7% dip in 2009 was an improvement over the double-digit drop in 2008, and came on sales of Microsoft Windows 7 and Apple Snow Leopard.
Google Search Gets Answers, Events
Two search relevancy improvements make it easier than ever to get answers using Google.
Two Cornerstones of Oracle's Database Hardware Strategy
After several months of careful optimization, Oracle managed to pick the most inconvenient day possible for me to get an Exadata update from Juan Loaiza. But the call itself was long and fascinating, with the two main takeaways...
SAS Revenue Up In 2009
The analytics vendor reported growth rates for its industry solutions were highest in banking, government, health care, insurance and retail.
Forget ECM: It's Document Management From Here On In
Enterprise Conent Management still has a place in the acronym pantheon, but that place is an increasingly limited one...
SAS Revenue Grows in 2009
Analytics vendor posts 3.3% gain in software sales and 2.2% increase in revenue.
Microsoft To Unveil Zune Phone?
Market watcher says Redmond is looking to counter the iPhone and Nexus One with a phone of its own.
Google Returns To Double Digit Growth
The company's Q4 revenue comes in strong, but shares slip nonetheless.
Oracle-Sun Deal Observers Mull MySQL Fate
The impact on MySQL and Java are the subject of industry chatter as Oracle's acquistion of Sun Microsystems lurches towards the finish line.
Amazon Opens Kindle To Developers
The Kindle SDK will allow software developers to create and sell applications through the Kindle Store.
Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.6
The latest version of Mozilla's open source browser arrives amid warnings about the security of Internet Explorer.
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Launch Set For May
An add-in, in-memory BI engine for Excel and a Sharepoint add-in are among the database upgrades.
Breakthrough Analysis: Two + Nine Types of Semantic Search
There's more to it than offering related results. Here are 11 approaches that join semantics to search.
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