Stories by Tom Sullivan

Ariba Thinks Globally

Ariba on Tuesday announced an updated version of its Buyer e-procurement software that is aimed at international business-to-business e-commerce.

Java Being Extended to Data Analysis

IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle Corp., and Hyperion Solutions Corp. are co-developing a Java-based, platform-independent specification for creating and managing data in OLAP (online analytical processing) servers.

Microsoft re-tests database

Microsoft on Thursday released benchmark numbers that put its SQL Server database back into the top five best performing databases. But this time around, despite hardware and software improvements, Microsoft didn't capture the top spot.

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