Data mining.
The two largest software firms, Microsoft and Oracle, are coming to blows over databases, and which one will win will depend on the future of Internet computing. Microsoft's database, SQL 7 will support on-line transaction with about 500 current users—a number that will grow when Windows 2000 is ma...
| Published in: | Economist Vol. 350; no. 8111; pp. 68 - 70 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
March 20 1999
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