Data Conversion

Microsoft are aiming for the stars, they want DATAllegro to push the SQL Server database into the hundreds of terabytes.

Microsoft has issued a Subpoena on Oracle to release the details of a confidential patent infringement settlement with JuxtaComm to help with their own patent infringement battle.

IBM and Informatica have both released data integration and data quality products for SalesForce.com data but on the AppExchange leaderboard it's IBM by a short nose.

I review 8 Gartner tips for making data integration cheaper and add three of my own.

It looks like the defendants are ready to slug it out with Teilhard/JuxtaComm/Shopplex in the ETL patent trial over billions of dollars in ETL licensing fees.

Microsoft launched SQL Server 2008 this week and in a new world record benchmark result showed how the SSIS ETL tool is faster than competing tools from four years ago.

Oracle brings together applications from a series of acquisitions to produce an eclectic data integration suite.

The biggest ETL trial of them all is set for November 2009 with Teilhard suing most major ETL vendors based on a blindingly obvious and broad ETL patent.

Most large vendors have been in accelerated acquisition mode for a couple years now so Informatica acquisition rumours abound.

Looking back at what the data integration vendors did in 2007.