Poonam Khanna

The employees at Big Blue once lived a buttoned-down, straight-laced, cubicled existence.

Larry Ellison wants businesses to hand over the running of their IT department to Oracle, and in return, he guarantees to lower the cost for those departments by five per cent every year for the next five year.

Currently, only about 10 per cent of Oracle's install base uses the company's 11i E-Business Suite. But the company will end support for its Application Suite 10.7 sometime next year, and pushing customers to upgrade was a big theme at the company's user conference, Oracle AppsWorld, held in San Diego last month.

A while ago, I received a letter from a financial institution informing me that they

Visual Studio.NET has a steep learning curve, but the climb is well worth it, according to developers who

Delays are nothing new in the airline industry. But by the time the International Air Transport Association was able to get some much-needed information to the airlines it serves, the data was too old to be of much use.

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