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Oxford University Press: SAP Customer Success Story
White Papers The everyday business of Oxford University Press is information - in the form of books of all kinds. Oxford University Press (OUP) now publishes over 4,000 new titles a year and has hundreds of thousands of customers all over the world.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Keeble College Library, Oxford University: Maintaining Centuries Of Knowledge With 21st-Century Ease
White Papers The library of Keeble College at Oxford University is an important center of information and scholarly research for some 600 students and professors. The library stays open around the clock, yet the staff works just during the day and evening hours.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Oxford University's Computer Centre Embraces PostgreSQL
News Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS), which provides services to staff and students around the university, will complete its move to open-source PostgreSQL as the back-end database for most of its systems over the next year.
[November 9, 2004, 14:38]
Oxford University Press Wins Oldest HP-UX Prize
News The server belongs to Oxford University Press (OUP), the publishing arm of the elite university, and it's still running happily after more than 10 years of service. OUP is the largest university book publisher in the world, and the Oxford English...
[September 19, 2007, 15:48]
Oxford University Computing Services Benefits From Using VMware Virtual Infrastructure
White Papers Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS) provides high-quality, cost-effective IT services to Oxford University, supporting more than 25,000 users in total. Prompted by a project to broaden the range of services on offer and a requirement to...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Oxford University Targeted By MPAA
News Oxford University has been forced to take a student's Web page offline following threats of legal action by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Oxford University student Adrian Baugh, who created the page last year, says that it did...
[May 19, 2000, 16:03]
Oxford University Sets Up Internet Institute
News Oxford University is to create an Internet Institute aimed at researching the effects of the Internet on society which it hopes will put the UK at the centre of the debate about how the Net should develop.
[May 4, 2001, 16:59]
Oxford University Press Education And Children's Division Improves First Fill Rate By 2% In 12 Months Using SAP Demand Planning
White Papers Oxford University Press Education and Children's Division optimized demand planning and forecasting for its complete range of publications using the SAP Demand Planning application, which is part of the mySAP Supply Chain Management solution.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
The University Of Oxford: Intel And United Devices Team Up To Speed Cancer Research
White Papers The University of Oxford Chemistry Department is home to the Centre for Computational Drug Design, set up by the National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR). Oxford's aggressive goal was to screen several chemical libraries against 12 target...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Oxford University's Computer Centre Embraces PostgreSQL
Talkback It's too late for Ingres to play 'me too' and finally jump on the open source bandwagon. Maybe Informix will go open source next.but who cares! Postgres will stomp out Ingres and other almost-forgotten databases.
[November 17, 2004, 1:18]
Oxford University's Computer Centre Embraces PostgreSQL
Talkback 1) The article does state that Ingress recently went open source. While I don't claim to be familiar with all of the details, it was my understanding that the Postgres project was either inspired by, or derived from, a snapshot of Ingres.
[November 11, 2004, 8:40]
Oxford University's Computer Centre Embraces PostgreSQL
Talkback Yes, you are correct. The name Postgres is a contraction of the term Post-Ingres and was a project started at UC Berkley by Dr. Michael Stonebraker, one of the founders of the Ingres project which also began life at UC Berkley.
[November 10, 2004, 23:48]
Oxford University's Computer Centre Embraces PostgreSQL
Talkback Ingres is open source, don't you guys do research?
[November 10, 2004, 15:42]
Oxford University's Computer Centre Embraces PostgreSQL
Talkback It would appear that the folks at Oxford missed the announcement that Ingres is now an open source database which has a proven replication solution built into it that is provided with the open source package.
[November 10, 2004, 15:40]
Big Success On Campus
White Papers The Oxford Centre for Computational Finance (OCCF) was launched in October 2001 at one of the world’s leading academic institutions, Oxford University in the United Kingdom. The university has a successful history of creating centers that focus on...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Oxford Students Questioned Over 'racist' Emails
News Oxford University is facing charges of institutional racism after an Asian student was sent racist emails telling him that he should leave the college and get a job at McDonalds. Nadeem Ahmed, who is studying medieval Arabic at Hertford College...
[March 19, 2001, 11:26]
PC Users Enlisted To Fight Cancer
News Scientists at Oxford University are hoping to recruit at least one million personal computer users willing to run an application that could find a cure for cancer. The aim of the project is to find new molecules that can kill cancerous cells, or at...
[April 3, 2001, 11:02]
Home PCs Fight Bugs In Anthrax Quest
News New anthrax-fighting drugs are to be developed on home and office PCs, according to Oxford University, Intel, Microsoft and United Devices. The software, described by Oxford University as 'in-silico' testing, has previously been used by United...
[January 22, 2002, 17:41]
Cyberterror Threats Dismissed
Talkback Urgent - 'Experts' challenge mi2g Chairman's speech at Oxford University - Open Letter These articles, appear to be responding to the speech made by our Chairman yesterday at the OII, University of Oxford - http://www.mi2g.com/cgi/mi2g/reports...
[February 11, 2005, 16:03]
Clarke Joins Latest Cyberterror Debate
Talkback Urgent - 'Experts' challenge mi2g Chairman's speech at Oxford University - Open Letter These articles, appear to be responding to the speech made by our Chairman yesterday at the OII, University of Oxford - http://www.mi2g.com/cgi/mi2g/reports...
[February 11, 2005, 15:59]
