Future plans for Bill Davis, chief executive, who founded Holland Mark as a database company, have not been determined.

The Federal Trade Commission permitted a working group formed by several database companies to come up with self-regulating guidelines in 1997.

The policy would prohibit database companies from distributing detailed credit history information except to legitimate subscribers, like banks and mortgage companies.

At the application level, Unisys has been working with the database companies on distributed technology, including lock management.

The acquisition of the Palm intellectual property would give the database company a whole new set of weapons with which to attack Android.

Note that this is not Oracle Corporation, the database company.

Since April 2013, the 5th floor has housed 10gen, a database company.

Some publishers and database companies employ indexers.

Private database companies say they are diligent in updating their records to reflect the later expungement of criminal records.

He said the database companies he contacted had been responsive if not especially fast in clearing up the problem.