78 million bucks. Who wouldn’t like a salary like that? Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle Corp, already earns it. However… … this year, Oracle Corp asked its shareholders if Ellison’s pay could be increased by 19%. The shareholders voted against the proposed increase, 2 million and 1.6 billion for (with one 1 billion of…
Big Data is getting to be as desirable as morning coffee amongst CFOs and CMOs. They crave it and cannot do without it. They talk about its nuances and tell stories of their encounters with it. But are they really harnessing it? It appears not. Instead, it appears that they are seriously faffing around. The…
Databases continue to be hacked and confidential personal information continues to be stolen (here’s the latest instance). There is a 28% possibility that yours will be hacked into in the next 12 months (according to the IOUG Data Security Survey). To know where you risk factors lie, examine this…
Everything that comes in the course of time, goes in the course of time. — Ancient Hindu proverb It could be the turn of MySQL to go in the course of time. The truth of the matter is that a large group of database user heavies (Google, Wikipedia, Red Hat et al) are exasperated…
U.S. National Cancer Institute researchers have made available the biggest database of cancer-related genetic anomalies ever published. This database will help cancer scientists to better formulate accurate treatments for the disease. The head of the NCI’s Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology Dr. Yves Pommier recently said,“Most anticancer drugs that are used today are used based on…
