Known primarily for its packaged database software products, Oracle also offers a consulting and management service for customization of the product that allows companies to get the most value out of their Oracle investments.
But instead of simply creating a tracking system, UPS's senior management decided to build a comprehensive package database that had the potential to become a platform for numerous applications.
The data collection and analysis is written in Haskell, using version 7.8.3 of the ghc Haskell compiler, and uses a bunch of packages from the Haskell package database (hackage).
The data collection and analysis is written in Haskell, using version 7.4.2 of the ghc Haskell compiler, and uses a bunch of packages from the Haskell package database (hackage).
The data collection and analysis is written in Haskell, using version 7.6.3 of the ghc Haskell compiler, and uses a bunch of packages from the Haskell package database (hackage).
In a move as farsighted as UPS's decision to create a package database, Delta's senior managers opted to use the Y2K threat to build a powerful technology platform, dubbed the Delta Nervous System (DNS), to provide real-time information for flight operations and customer service.
The repository database uses the same format as the package database of dpkg.
Both solutions use a specific package database format as well as a specific repository format.
While apt/dpkg uses the same plaintext file format both as package database and as repository database, yum/rpm uses a Berkeley database as package database and an XML file as repository database.
This information is collected from the package database, that keeps track of installed packages, versions, files belonging to each package, etc., and from the configuration files of the software management solution.
