Gabe Allen

If there's one industry that challenges the enterprise Internet for growth and excitement, it's medicine and biotech. The pace of medical research and innovation rivals that of any dot-com startup or enterprise computing gambit. At Glaxo Wellcome Inc., the giant pharmaceutical firm in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, the latest technologies - Web, enterprise, and database - are being used to accelerate the company's pace of medical and biotech research. Glaxo's aim is to gain competitive advantage over its rivals worldwide, and drive newer, safer, and more effective therapies and outright cures to the public...faster. Now helping the company's researchers meet that challenge: WebGain's TopLink for Java. WebGain's TopLink is just one part of a larger company effort to integrate new, pure object applications and solutions with multiple Oracle8i SQL databases t... (more)