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		<title>Chasing the Oracle Exadata Pot of Gold</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big purse “contests” generate media attention but don’t help anyone get any real work done.  From my experience working with hundreds of customers who switched from Oracle to IBM, business users are interested in getting insight fast enough to have a big impact on business decisions. IT departments want help dealing with high database maintenance costs and on-going tuning challenges. And the answer to these challenges is more than just fake contests hyping Exadata.]]></description>
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		<title>IBM Open Invitation — The IT Migration Life Cycle: An Expert Panel Discussion</title>
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		<title>PureApplication delivers expertise. Exalogic requires it.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 16:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oracle’s co-president recently asserted that IBM is behind in system integration. Far from the actual reality. Moreover, that seems as an attempt to obscure the fundamental gap facing Oracle’s Exa series in catching up with IBM PureSystems, which represent a new category of systems with IT operational expertise built right in for the average IT professional to leverage out of the box and simplify the IT experience throughout the entire system lifecycle.]]></description>
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		<title>Nancy Kopp on Big Data, Smart Consolidation, and Netezza</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
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