Eric Lai

Articles by Eric Lai

Microsoft Office finally available in the Web and on smart phones

Microsoft takes its money-making desktop software franchise online and into your phone

Gates setting up sci-tech think tank

Research facility will be used for Microsoft founder's philanthropic works, according to reports

OpenOffice.org 3.0 scores 3 million downloads in first week

The open source office suite made a strong showing during its first week with more than 80 per cent of downloads carried out by Windows users

Vertica’s Oracle compatibility wins over data warehouse customers

Database start-up's strategy of supplementing rather than usurping existing systems is a hit with customers

Teradata highlights petabyte-plus data warehouse customers

The business intelligence vendor names Wal-Mart, Bank of America, and Dell among its newly-created 'Petabyte Power Players' club

eBay may offer BI-as-a-service to companies

Following in the footsteps of Amazon.com Inc., eBay could also start marketing its inhouse technology for external customers

Oracle pushes compression for database scale-up

If the recently-announced HP Oracle Database Machine's US$2.33-million price tag is too much, the company suggests DBAs turn to a popular approach for retrieving data more quickly

Oracle app dev chief leaves, raising questions on Fusion

Just weeks before Oracle's OpenWorld conference, the company loses one of its top executives in charge of application development to Cisco Systems.

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