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  Michael Stonebraker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He is also the founder of Ingres, Illustra, Cohera and StreamBase Systems, and was previously the CTO of Informix.
Cohera's initial mission was to build a federated database, an updated approach to integrating data in multiple database that began with the first attempts at distributed relational databases in the 1980s.
Cohera was ultimately sold in August 2001 to PeopleSoft.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Stonebraker   (574 words)

  
 Darwin - Executive's Guide - E-Business Learning Center - Rate the Startup - Cohera   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Cohera believes its E-Catalog System will alleviate great pains for businesses such as exchanges and portals because with it they don’t have to write and maintain custom code to integrate all of the data.
Cohera's customers include LiveListings.com (a business-to-business online trading community for truck, automotive and industrial parts), ThomasNet (a division of Thomas Publishing, a leading provider of industrial product information) and RestaurantPro (an intermediary between restaurants and their suppliers).
Cohera targets companies that need to build and maintain online catalogs, publish their catalog data to multiple external exchanges, integrate legacy content with Web content, and/or build business portals for internal and external customers or partners.
www2.darwinmag.com /learn/ebusiness/startup/rate.cfm?AID=14   (1166 words)

  
 InformationWeek.com
Stonebraker is founder and chief technology officer of Cohera Corp., a startup whose technology provides a unified view of data in real time, regardless of its location or structure.
Cohera's Data Federation System is a commercial adaptation of technology developed at the University of California at Berkeley, where Stonebraker is a computer science professor.
Cohera's technology is scheduled to be available by May 1.
www.informationweek.com /727/database.htm   (252 words)

  
 Infoconomy - Industry Reports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The deal had been the subject of rumours since May 2001 and was instigated by Cohera because of looming cash-flow problems at the Hayward, California-based company.
Cohera offers a high-end catalogue management package that can handle a wide range of content.
Cohera was founded in 1997 by Dr Mike Stonebreaker, a former Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor and a key researcher into relational database technology.
www.infoconomy.com /pages/industry-reports/group35243.adp   (256 words)

  
 Intelligent Enterprise Magazine - Editor's Page
Cohera is based on Mariposa, a distributed database research project begun at Berkeley in 1992.
Cohera accomplishes global integration by focusing on logical and semantic, rather than physical integration.
Cohera requires an “extra round trip of messages” between the federated middleware and the local sites for the calibration queries to determine the proper load and network “tax” and assess which server is appropriate.
www.intelligententerprise.com /db_area/archives/1999/992004/editpage.jhtml?_requestid=50136   (1654 words)

  
 Business Wire: Cohera Corporation Announces Revolutionary Data Federation System That Unifies Enterprise Data in ...
Cohera solves the problem of inadequate enterprise data integration - one of the most taxing and expensive dilemmas facing business managers and information technology professionals alike.
Cohera was founded in 1997 by Dr. Michael Stonebraker, world-renowned database researcher and technology visionary, who previously started Ingres Corporation and Illustra Information Technologies.
Cohera allows the best of both worlds - users get the information they need, and system owners retain control of their operations.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1999_March_29/ai_54230964   (1023 words)

  
 Infoconomy - Suppliers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Cohera's content integration and aggregation, as well as catalogue workbench capabilities are strong, Lamson claims, and PeopleSoft felt that it was the best company available.
One of the other main reasons PeopleSoft wanted Cohera was because its product allows users to do much of the software configuration themselves — an important factor for PTXs, which are highly customised to the needs of their owners.
The Cohera product will be integrated with PeopleSoft's existing eprocurement applications, and an integrated PeopleSoft/Cohera product will begin shipping in early September.
www.infoconomy.com /pages/b2binfrastructure-supplier-date/group35420.adp   (599 words)

  
 Analyst Insight: Federating Distributed Data
Founded by Michael Stonebraker, Cohera commercializes research work begun at the University of California at Berkeley to develop a scalable, truly functional distributed data management system.
Like nQuire, Cohera's DFS provides a unified view of distributed data sources, including SAP R/3 applications and HTML pages but is more of a distributed query optimizer than an analytic engine.
Using a political analogy, Cohera would advocate that the U.S. return to its original Constitution - the Articles of Confederation - which gave substantial power to individual states to govern themselves.
www.dmreview.com /article_sub.cfm?articleId=1555   (1373 words)

  
 Disparate databases are rounded up by Cohera
Cohera provides an uncomplicated way of creating realtime integrated views of incompatible, distributed global data.
Cohera integrates relational and non relational data sources and is based on industry standards, such as SQL and ODBC.
Stonebraker is now chief technology officer at Cohera whose Data Federation System is a commercial adaptation of technology developed at the University of California at Berkeley.
www.vnunet.com /articles/print/2131093   (520 words)

  
 Cohera Corporation and WIZNET Inc. Announce Strategic Alliance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The alliance between Cohera and WIZNET allows for the first-ever capability to manage both structured and unstructured data within an e-catalog environment for customers seeking a complete data aggregation solution for online e-marketplaces, services and other mission-critical business applications.
Moreover, the Cohera E-Catalog System provides a software component that can sit at a supplier's site, enabling them to manage their participation within a marketplace and to publish their catalog in multiple marketplaces.
Cohera is privately held and backed by such industry-leading venture firms as Accel Partners, Sequoia Capital, Sippl/MacDonald Ventures, Ignite Ventures and Cambridge Technology Capital.
www.findwealth.com /cohera-corporation-and-wiznet-inc-217910pr.html   (851 words)

  
 Business Wire: Cohera Corporation to Demonstrate Industry's Most Complete Solution for Business-to-Business E-Commerce
About Cohera: Headquartered in Hayward, Calif., the Cohera Corporation is dedicated to providing fast-growing B2B e-commerce firms with a scalable standards-based e-catalog infrastructure to drive dynamic e-markets.
Cohera is privately held and backed by such industry-leading venture firms as Accel Partners, Sequoia Capital, Sippl/MacDonald Ventures, Merrill Lynch Partners, Ignite Ventures and Cambridge Technology Capital.
Cohera can be reached on the Web at http://www.cohera.com/ or by calling (510) 780-1700.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2000_Feb_23/ai_59611131   (271 words)

  
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Cohera is the latest venture of Michael Stonebreaker, creator of Ingres and Postgres.
Cohera is commercializing Stonebreaker's Mariposa -- a massively scalable agoric distributed database.
Cohera uses price information to distribute data and queries is ways that dynamically adapt to changing conditions.
www.erights.org /related.html   (845 words)

  
 Attunity Press Release Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Cohera's technology provides the real-time transformation and integration of enterprise-wide information to present a unified format for the end-application.
Cohera is backed by top-tier investors including Accel Partners, Sequoia Capital, Sippl-Macdonald Ventures and Merrill Lynch.
Cohera can be reached at 1.510.780.1700 or visit Cohera at www.cohera.com
www.attunity.com /news/pr/19991020a.asp   (400 words)

  
 DS* Start-Up to Smash Data Bottlenecks 04.06.99   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Stonebraker said his new company, Cohera (telnet://www.cohera.com), will launch a product that forms "a federation of data sources," leaving existing systems in place but making their data Web-accessible through a central clearinghouse.
Cohera's Data Federation System (DFS), due May 1, will cost $150,000 for an entry-level system.
Cohera, in Hayward, Calif., is backed by venture capital firms Accel Partners, Sequoia Capital, Sippl-Macdonald Ventures and Merrill Lynch.
www.tgc.com /dsstar/99/0406/100685.html   (379 words)

  
 Foodservice.com Media Kit - Foodservice and Hospitality Advertising Rates, Demographics, News, Traffic, and Testimonials
Cohera enables Foodservice.com to support this entire range of the e-market life cycle in a single e-catalog.
Headquartered in Hayward, Calif., the Cohera Corporation is dedicated to providing fast-growing B2B e-commerce firms with a scalable standards-based e-catalog infrastructure to drive dynamic e-markets.
Cohera can be reached on the Web at http://www.cohera.comor by calling 510/780-1700.
www.foodservice.com /mediakit/press_release.cfm   (2698 words)

  
 Bits & Bytes: Investors get a peek at region's bio-focused technology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Lans Taylor's latest company, Cellumen Inc., and Cohera Biomedical Adhesives Inc., one of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's newest commercial ventures, which has yet to ink-the-deal on a chief executive officer to lead the operation.
Cohera has developed a non-toxic, biodegradeable adhesive called "TissuGlu," which is absorbed into the body as surgical wounds heal.
Cohera is raising money, somewhere between $500,000 and $2 million although Ms.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/05281/584811.stm   (1027 words)

  
 TheStreet.com: PeopleSoft Wraps Up Its Cohera Deal
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, though the company said the transaction was done in cash and completed July 23.
In an earlier interview with TheStreet.com, PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway said the deal was done at "a very reasonable price." In July, people familiar with the transaction told TheStreet.com that Cohera had come upon hard times financially due to the slowdown in technology spending.
At the time, Conway said his firm was taking advantage of the slowdown to acquire companies and technology.
www.thestreet.com /pf/tech/software/1526764.html   (192 words)

  
 TheStreet.com: PeopleSoft Grabs Cohera in Content Bid
At the time, PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway said the privately held firm was "cash strapped," and boasted of the relatively low price he paid for the company, which had $10 million in sales last year.
A source familiar with the Cohera deal said the company had "hit a wall in a big way" financially, and characterized the transaction as a "fire sale." The source, however, did not know the exact terms of the deal.
Hayward, Calif.-based Cohera was founded in 1997 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor and former Informix Chief Technology Officer Michael Stonebraker to mine opportunities in an area known as "distributed data integration." That process allows companies to access information they need but don't necessarily control.
www.thestreet.com /tech/software/1482010.html   (719 words)

  
 Expanded Profile Line Halves Channels Needed for Multi-Format Broadcast; New Cohera Storage Architecture is Industry's ...
With so much valuable content residing on disk-based storage systems, implementing a storage solution that fits within capital budgets, keeps pace with rapidly changing facility requirements, and provides solid data protection and availability, is a must.
The Grass Valley Cohera storage architecture offers open systems capability for easy third-party integration, a common security model for secured engineering log-in access, and broadcast-ready availability and redundancy.
As an Cohera technology-enabled storage solution, the Grass Valley NAS leverages a state-of-the-art IT infrastructure system to provide unprecedented, entry-level pricing for shared-storage users—and can expand easily to meet their changing system requirements and while preserving their capital investments.
www.thomsongrassvalley.com /news/2003/20030130-uu-DNP_Release.html   (1350 words)

  
 Cohera Corporation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Cohera develops and markets a software solution for creating and deploying e-catalogs for e-business.
Cohera's breakthrough technology consists of software servers and tools for building and running live e-catalog systems.
Cohera has ability to broker live catalog data from multiple vendors plus manage and search the e-catalog via standard SQL.
www.employerhealth.com /EHR_sample_pages/sp9571.htm   (70 words)

  
 DCI NetSessions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Cohera provides powerful solutions for companies needing business content from multiple sources.
Cohera may contact registrants of this NetSession with information on e-Commerce solutions.
These are the tools you need to optimize and streamline supplier relationships --- or you’ll face stiff competition from organizations that have already achieved automated procurement success.
www.netsessions.net /events/content.asp   (323 words)

  
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PeopleSoft Inc. (Nasdaq: PSFT) today announced it has acquired the intellectual property and certain assets of Cohera Inc. With the acquisition, PeopleSoft combines Cohera's sophisticated Catalog Management and content integration software with its industry-leading sales-side and buy-side collaborative applications.
The combined solution is the first to enable both purchasing and merchandising professionals to create and manage sophisticated catalogs for buying and selling goods and services over the internet.
PeopleSoft's acquisition of the intellectual property and certain assets of Cohera was a cash transaction completed on July 23, 2001.
checkers.peoplesoft.com /Events.nsf/92dbce767667bd2d8825665d005d60be/05e06099c56cb54c88256ab5005d74f2?OpenDocument   (502 words)

  
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Monday says it has completed its acquisition of intellectual property and certain assets of Hayward, Calif.-based Cohera.
The cash deal originally announced back on July 23, 2001 effectively supplies the Pleasanton, Calif.-based company's CRM platform with Cohera's catalog management and content integration software.
In addition to the Cohera purchase, PeopleSoft is also working with ADX-Advanced Data Exchange, British Telecom, Commerce One, eScout, EssentialMarkets, Metacat, Redknife, SPS Commerce, TPN Register, VerticalNet, and Zycus to give its customers a wide selection.
asia.internet.com /briefs/print.php/873531   (194 words)

  
 PeopleSoft picks at Cohera bones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Folding in software from Cohera is PeopleSoft's first move to populate its new Trading Exchange Services suite, said Kerry Lamson, vice president of global e-business strategy at PeopleSoft.
Lamson said Cohera's technology allows PeopleSoft to overcome what has been the most challenging barrier to business-to-business efforts: providing valid content and connecting suppliers.
The product-content management capability acquired from Cohera earns PeopleSoft definite consideration for users interested in building a private trading exchange, whether or not they are existing PeopleSoft users, Parker added.
infoworld.com /infoworld/articles/hn/xml/01/08/27/010827hncohera.html   (756 words)

  
 The PeopleSoft Cohera Catalog Management System : E-consultancy.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The PeopleSoft Cohera Catalog Management System helps simplify catalog content management by providing a tool built to manage discrete supplier catalog content and create unified catalogs for internet-based procurement and other uses.
With the Cohera Catalog Management System, organizations now have the flexibility to configure content structure, build and maintain product taxonomies, define transformation and cleansing rules, import and update supplier catalog content, automatically categorize products, manage catalog versions, publish independent views of content, and manage customer pricing.
This executive white paper examines the needs of companies embarking on internet-based procurement projects and is focused on the obstacles encountered in securing accurate, timely catalog content—one of the requirements for success.
www.e-consultancy.com /knowledge/whitepapers/80332/the-peoplesoft-cohera-catalog-management-system.html   (289 words)

  
 PeopleSoft releases flurry of enterprise products   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Both are intended to Web-enable supply chain processes, allowing vendors to oversee catalogue content and track supplier performance more easily.
That software was sold as the PeopleSoft Cohera Catalog Management System.
The latest version, with Cohera dropped from the name, is a rewritten version of the software based on PeopleSoft's technology, said Bob Shecterle, PeopleSoft's vice-president of supplier relationship management strategy.
www.microscope.co.uk /Article118331.htm   (333 words)

  
 IT-Director.com: PeopleSoft snaps up Cohera
PeopleSoft has sought to strengthen its e-commerce efforts this week with the acquisition of ailing catalogue management firm Cohera.
Without knowing the intricacies of the deal, especially the financials, it's difficult to say whether or not PeopleSoft has got itself a bargain with the acquisition of Cohera.
The firm, courtesy of the Cohera purchase, has gained for itself a number of important products.
www.it-director.com /article.php?articleid=8583&quote=gen   (455 words)

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