Many of you remember Digital Equipment, the vendor that dominated com­puting in the 1970s and 1980s. What did Digital do wrong that sent its busi­ness into a downward spiral? The conventional contradictory answers are Digital had too much of an engineering culture and not a marketing culture; or too much of a marketing culture that [...]

(This post is excerpted from an article that appeared in the August 2007 of Database Trends & Applications.)
It was well over a decade ago that XML was first introduced as a lingua franca that could bring together even the most disparate data environments. While it has become a fairly ubiquitous part of the enter­prise landscape, [...]

There are always many new and shifting paradigms shaping the direction of enter­prise information technology. We’ve talked many times here about the mega­trends that are upending our preconceived notions of how data centers should be built, run, and financed, such as open source and SOA. Here at Database Trends and Applications and Unisphere Research, we [...]