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California’s New Prison IT Plan

A new court-appointed leader proposes a plan to speed up deployment of new technology to reform California's prison healthcare system.n

11 Apr 2008 3 mins

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Can Technology Fix California Prison Health Care?

Inside California prisons, substandard medical care kills one inmate every six days. IT is part of the court-ordered prescription to ensure doctors do no more harm. Part 1 of 3.

11 Apr 2008 8 mins

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How a European Bank Got Oracle to Surrender Key Software Licensing Points

A Forrester Research report offers a rare look inside a multimillion-dollar Oracle database negotiation and how one bank held its ground on a critical contract clause that's typically "not up for negotiation" with software vendors.

17 Mar 2008 6 mins

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Database Developers Users’ Choice: Oracle

In a satisfaction survey comparing features from Oracle, IBM DB2, Informix Dynamic Server, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Sybase Adaptive Server, 1,400 developers were most satisfied by Oracle.

3 Mar 2008 3 mins

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