Database News.Competing Data Warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse Standards Merge in OMG (1) See Object Management Group. (2) "Oh my God!" See digispeak. OMG - Object Management Group The Meta Data Coalition An organization of database and data warehouse vendors founded in 1995. Within a year, it introduced the Metadata Interchange Specification (MDIS) as a standard for defining meta-data. It also developed Microsoft's Open Information Model (OIM) and later merged MDIS into OIM. (MDC (1) (Mobile Daughter Card) See riser card. (2) See Meta Data Coalition. ) and the Object Management Group (OMG), two industry organisations with competing data warehousing standards, have announced that the MDC will merge into the OMG. As a result, the MDC will discontinue independent operations and work will continue in the OMG to integrate the two standards. Until this event there were two major standards for metadata and modeling in the areas of data warehousing and component-based development. Data warehousing is a response to the enterprise need to integrate valuable data spread across organisations from multiple sources. Analysis of an enterprise's accumulated data not only allows sales and production to be tuned for maximum profitability, but also allows entirely new and profitable products to be discovered and exploited. However, it is difficult to merge data into a single warehouse when its sources are spread over a number of different databases, using different data models. The merger of MDC into the OMG marks an agreement of the major data warehousing and metadata vendors to converge on one standard, incorporating the best of the MDC's Open Information Model (OIM See Meta Data Coalition. ) with the best of the OMG's Common Warehouse Metamodel For other uses of "CWM", see CWM (disambiguation). The Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM) is a specification for modeling metadata for relational, non-relational, multi-dimensional, and most other objects found in a data warehousing environment. (CWMTM). When the work is complete, the resulting specification will be issued by the OMG as the next version of the CWM. A single standard will allow users to exchange metadata between different products from different vendors freely www.interest@mong.org NetVault in UK NetVault is a centralised software storage management system providing backup, restore and archiving functions, across a wide range of computer platforms. 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IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Netfinity servers with Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. 4.0. Tamino is now certified for all IBM Netfinity servers and for clustered Netfinity 5500 M20 servers. IBM tested Tamino for stand alone systems as well as servers configured as clusters, involving 300 users with 50 transactions each. Tamino adapted to all error simulations without any noticeable delays in response times, and continued operating as usual. Tamino users who employ the XML database for mission-critical or Web applications, this result is of major importance. Interruption-free operation ensures that Web shops, for instance, running on two Netfinity servers with Windows NT 4.0 continue to work during planned or unplanned down time of one of the servers IBM used its Intel-based Netfinity 5500 MIO (Modular I/O) A hardware interface for HP printers that is primarily used to plug in an internal print server and network adapter. MIO has been superseded by EIO. See EIO. servers for the server, mode tests and series 5500 M20 computers for the cluster-mode tests. Each computer was equipped with dual Intel Pentium 111 1500 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. processors and 1 GByte RAM, The Ram, The, English name for Aries, a constellation. operating system of choice was Windows NT 4.0. ListPro3.0 Contemporary plc, is shipping ListPro 3.0 from FarPoint Technologies. ListPro is a set of list box and combo box components that can be used in any application that requires customisable lists with extended functionality. Version 3.0 has twenty new features including OLE drag-and-drop support, Intellimouse support, text tips, variable positioning of combo box lists mad more. ListPro's controls can up to two billion list items, including, single records or items on multiple rows also merge cell text search for specific list items, or sort list items using unlimited keys. New features include: Support OLE drag-and-drop operations * Display text tips when the pointer is over a header or list item * Automatically adjust the height of rows to accommodate a change in font characteristics * Display the list of a combo box above or below the edit field * Resize Verb 1. resize - change the size of; make the size more appropriate size - make to a size; bring to a suitable size rescale - establish on a new scale the last column beyond the control border * Support for Microsoft's IntelliMouse * Automatically display matching list item as user type characters in the combo box edit field * Query the column level number, parent group, or position in parent of the target source after a drag-and-drop operation occurs * Query the maximum height or width of a cell, column, row, or header based on the current text, current picture, or both. www.contemporary.com Complete XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. Architecture Software AG has announced its new complete platform for commercial XML applications The new architecture, with Tamino Database at its core, enables high-level development of XML applications, storage and processing of XML data, and integration of XML data from other applications. According to Gartner Group, today's average enterprise spends 35 to 40 percent of its IT budget on adapting its existing systems to cope with data exchange between different databases and applications. The most common hurdles of efficient data exchange are incompatible data formats, isolated IT structures, and proprietary software. Gartner Group analysts believe the solution is XML, the new cutting-edge standard for data exchange on the Internet XML considerably reduces programming effort for data exchange and at the same time, enables integration of electronic business applications. The Tamino XML Platform offers customers architecture for electronic business applications based on XML, and provides the tools needed to develop XML powered electronic e-business solutions" hhtp:/softwareag.co.uk |
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