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Oracle acquires TimesTen: a rational move but not without some challenges

Oracle today announced the acquisition of privately-held, 90-person TimesTen, Inc for an undisclosed sum. TimesTen provides a memory-based, relational database targeted at mission-critical, (pseudo-) real-time applications, particularly in telecoms (fixed and mobile) and financial services, especially capital markets. TimesTen, with its TimesTen/Cache already provides out-of-the-box integration with the Oracle database, enabling synchronisation between the Oracle [...]

Posted on Thursday, June 9, 2005 by

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Don’t judge industry collaboration by source code alone

Last week I joined a number of my peers at a Microsoft EMEA analyst event. During his presentation Ashim Pal, Microsoft’s Senior Director of Platform Strategy for EMEA, discussed what his employer had learned from Linux and open source software, particularly the community model for software development. Unsurprisingly he talked about Microsoft’s Shared Source program [...]

Posted on Wednesday, June 8, 2005 by
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