Charles Barouch

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.-In the modern IT world, SQL and XML have become such key components in the database sector that it’s difficult to remember a time when they weren’t part of the architectural story. However, in the late 1960s and early ’70s, database architectures with flexible field sizes, nested tables and loose-data typing options were […]

When I stepped onto the exhibition floor of the IBM Information On Demand show for 2007, I expected to be surrounded by people talking about new things. I eventually found those people, but mostly what I saw was IOD 2006 redux. The answers were smarter, the approaches were more sophisticated, and the software was more […]