Technology
Microsoft Unveils Web based Applications
Microsoft is moving softwares and services online, fending off several smaller startups targetting small business houses. The Redmond, Washington based company announced the details yesterday with Live Mail, Live Messenger, Safety Center and Favorites. Few of the applications are not yet active and would be activated soon as per the site(www.live.com).
Oracle Considers Supporting Competing Databases
Oracle will certify that its iFlex and Retek applications will run on IBM's DB2 database as well as Oracle's database, and it is actively considering whether its future Fusion applications will be engineered to work with DB2 as well. But CEO Larry Ellison said Wednesday that any competing databases Oracle supports must be able to run the thousands of tests that certify that Oracle's applications will work with that database. Ellison says IBM is capable of that and so is Microsoft, should Oracle decide to support its SQL Server database.






