Q&A With Gartner's Don Feinberg on Database as a Service and Cloud DBs > > Intelligent Enterprise: Better Insight for Business Decisions

Interesting! Amazon is behind Oracle, Sun, and IBM's offerings!

Q&A With Gartner's Don Feinberg on Database as a Service and Cloud DBs > > Intelligent Enterprise: Better Insight for Business Decisions: "You call them up and say, 'I want an instance of your database in the cloud.' They contract with Amazon EC2, set up the instance and give me a simple link. Now I have my database in the cloud. Oracle will also let you host your license on EC2. They're going to call it Oracle in a Cloud, but you'll have to put it on the EC2 virtual machine yourself. That's a little different than what Vertica and EntepriseDB are doing because they will handle everything and you pay one vendor rather than dealing with Amazon on your own."

It's Official: SEC to Propose XBRL-Based Financial Reporting > > Intelligent Enterprise: Better Insight for Business Decisions

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It's Official: SEC to Propose XBRL-Based Financial Reporting > > Intelligent Enterprise: Better Insight for Business Decisions: "It's unanimous and not unexpected. The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it has voted to propose a rule requiring all U.S. companies to report their financial results using eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL). The XML-based reporting language, which has been used in the US since 2005 as part of a voluntary program, is expected to speed investment as well as regulatory analyses."

Hitting 300 SimbleDB Requests Per Second on a Small EC2 Instance | High Scalability

Hitting 300 SimbleDB Requests Per Second on a Small EC2 Instance High Scalability: "High Performance Multithreaded Access to Amazon SimpleDB is a great follow up to the idea in How SimpleDB Differs from a RDBMS that more programming is the price paid for performance in SimpleDB. It shows how much work and infrastructure is required to batter better performance out of SimpleDB."

High Scalability | Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites.

High Scalability Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites.: "Searching around the HS website I noticed that there are no articles regarding db2, which has an express edition, free of charge and from what I know there aren't any restrictions.
Being a powerful database system I thought it could make be an alternative to MySQL, PostgreSQL databases.
Here is the IBM statement:"