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SOFTWARE SOUGHT TO EXPOSE TERRORIST CELLS

CHORDIANT'S MARKETING APP NOW SCALED FOR LARGE IBM DW SITES

ORACLE CEO EXPANDS UPON SECURITY PLAN

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  SOFTWARE SOUGHT TO EXPOSE TERRORIST CELLS
  In a move that has some privacy rights advocates concerned, the Pentagon is hoping to track down terrorists with the help of a growing battery of computer software developed to combat consumer and business fraud.

  ORACLE CEO EXPANDS UPON SECURITY PLAN
  Larry Ellison, who has long campaigned for corporate America to unite its key financial data on his software, now has a more ambitious dream: a national database running Oracle Corp software that takes in every man, woman and child in the United States.

  IT IS KEY TO NEW AIRPORT SAFETY RECOMMENDATIONS
  The U.S. Secretary of Transportation's Rapid Response Team on air travel security made public a set of recommendations that build on President George W. Bush's Sept. 27 call to make commercial airports and airliners more secure against terrorism.

  STORAGE AT YOUR SERVICE
  While the application service provider market has captured most of the industry's attention, the storage service provider market is quietly growing, exploiting the current centralization trend.

• Leading Edge R&D
  
  

  AVENTIS LICENSES LeadScope ENTERPRISE
  LeadScope Inc, a leading provider of chemically intelligent informatics platforms for pharmaceutical discovery, announced that Aventis has licensed LeadScope Enterprise for use in its drug discovery program.

  THREE WINNERS OF THE GRACIE COMPETITION 2001
  Micro Focus International Ltd (Micro Focus), a leading global enterprise development company for legacy systems, announced at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo winners of this year's Admiral Grace Murray Hopper Student Programming Competition, or GRACIE Competition.

  HNC DEVELOPING NEW AIR SECURITY SOFTWARE
  HNC Software Inc, best known for products that help catch credit-card and insurance fraud, said it was developing a program for airlines that would sweep through reservation records for suspicious patterns and help flag potential hijackers

• Business & Money Trail
  
  

  AVAYA INTRODUCES INTERACTION CENTER FOR CRM
  Avaya Inc, a global leader in corporate networking solutions and services, introduced Avaya Interaction Center for customer relationship management (CRM), a flexible software solution that enables businesses to intelligently evolve multi-platform call centers to multimedia, multi-site contact centers.

  CHORDIANT'S MARKETING APP NOW SCALED FOR LARGE IBM DW SITES
  Chordiant Software Inc, a leader in Unifying Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Solutions, announced that Chordiant Marketing Director is now available for use with the following IBM data warehousing platforms: IBM's DB2 UDB for AIX, and IBM's DB2 Connect for IBM OS/390.

  JAPANESE FIRM INVESTS IN THE 32-PROCESSOR ES7000
  To document and record the trading activity of its rapidly expanding customer base, one of Japan's top 10 online trading firms, kabu.com Securities, will rely on a 32-processor Unisys Enterprise Server ES7000 to host key customer and financial data.

  SAPIOR INTRODUCES REDBRIDGE SURROGATE KEY MAPPING TOOL
  Sapior Ltd unveiled Redbridge, a specialized surrogate key mapping tool for high performance data integration.

Top Of The News

• Applications
  Firstlogic Announces Data Quality Link v.1.21
  Object Design Offers Government Discount
  Sagent to Integrate SAS in New BI Solutions for Mid-Market
  SoftTree Tech Releases Version 4 of DB Tools for Oracle
  SPSS Supports Siebel 7

• Storage
  MarketWatch.com Selects Dot Hill's SANnet Storage Solution
  Hitachi Data Systems/INRANGE Help Raiffeisen

• Peer-To-Peer
  Lane15 Announces General Availability of Lane15 Fabric Mgr

Short Takes

• On The Market
  Kalido Provides Multiple ERP Systems Integration
  Sybase Unveils Billing Analysis Software

• Financial Watch
  AEGON Group Implementing Data Quality Solution from Group 1
  Brunswick Selects Informatica eProcurement
  Sand Technology Announces Share Repurchase Program

• People & Positions
  Infoglide Software Corporation Expands Management Team
  Oppenheim Named vice president Sales and Marketing, Maxager

Quote Of The Week

"The single thing that we could do to make life tougher for terrorists would be to ensure that all the information in myriad government databases was integrated into a single national file." -- Larry Ellison CEO, Oracle Corp.

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