Topic: Pervasive Computing
Funny we should see the Financial vertical addressed first as a quick start bundle in Viper - especially given the state of our speculations on the advancement of the transactional process industry.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/061207/0192659.html
IBM DB2 9 Data Server Expands XML Presence New Quick Start Bundles, Customers and Partners Drive Industry Leadership
Thursday December 7, 4:00 pm ET
ARMONK, NY--(MARKET WIRE)--Dec 7, 2006 -- IBM (NYSE:IBM - News) today introduced a series of quick start software bundles for the DB2 9 data server designed to help clients adapt their information management environments to meet new standards for handling XML data.
The new DB2 9 pureXML quick start bundles help database administrators and software developers to load XML industry exchange messages and schemas more easily, and to define XML queries and indexes for business applications. The first of these bundles are based on specific industry XML standards that support FIXML and FpML, which are formats developed for the financial industry. The industry-specific XML message exchange formats provide methods to exchange XML data information between and within companies.
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