Just ran across this interesting development...an alternative to software licenses and open source for that matter displayed at Comdex is hardware:
http://www.calpont.com/go/products.html Link: http://www.gcn.com/21_34/news/20671-1.html Government Computer News 12/16/02; Vol. 21 No. 34 Small and wireless are hot trends By John Breeden II, Carlos A. Soto, and Thomas R. Temin GCN Staff Calpont Corp. showed a prototype of a radically different database management system in hardware. President Valerie Borthwick, a former Oracle Corp. executive, said the Rockwell, Texas, company�s Novare HDB promises a 100-fold increase in system performance and eliminates the complexity of the typical enterprise DBMS� layers of optimizing software. Ready next fall, Novare HDB will comprise an application server, a DBMS engine card and 112G of storage, all in a 19-inch rackmount card cage. It will emulate IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Oracle databases plus a superset of a half-dozen languages based on Structured Query Language. No software licenses are required. Wireless technology also continued to evolve at a fast pace at Comdex. -- +=======================================================+ | Joseph Dal Molin | E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | President | Web: http://www.e-cology.ca | | e-cology Corporation | Phone: 1.416.232.1206 | +=======================================================+
