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...The team, which is based at Bombardier’s rail and tram research and development centre in Mannheim, Germany, found a solution....
...The solution is based on Dynamics AX, which Microsoft acquired when it bought Danish enterprise software Navision in 2002....
...The database, which runs on Linux or Solaris, uses a massively parallel processing architecture to allow big businesses to build high-end data warehouses on cheap commodity hardware....
...” * Security in a Web 2.0 World, Carlos Solari and contributors, Wiley, 2009...
...Its key products, Java and Solaris, do not make much money. But they are industry standards, and much of Oracle’s own database software relies on them....
...Solaris or Linux server....
...“We were a little bit too late for the last cycle – Microsoft moved from an x86 to a PowerPC processor, we think we could have provided them with a great solution to running old games on the new [Xbox 360...
...The company cites research that says, in total cost of ownership terms, Linux is cheaper than Sun’s Solaris operating system, but costlier than Windows....
...Dan Gillmor is founder of Grassroots Media Inc in San Francisco. His new website is www.bayosphere.com...
...But Windows, SCO Unix, HP-UX (Hewlett-Packard’s version of Unix) and Sun Microsystems’ Solaris also run on this architecture....
...The new platform is based on Sun Fire servers running the Solaris operating system, the Oracle 9i database and Infosys’s Finacle banking software....
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