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Oracle Offers Hosted Database

Matthew Hicks | March 31, 2002

Oracle is taking the skills it learned hosting its enterprise applications in the Oracle.com ASP and applying them to a broader base of potential customers anyone who uses the Oracle database.

More Oracle Pricing Concerns Surface

Matthew Hicks | March 27, 2002

Another major IT market research firm is decrying database pricing practices at Oracle, saying that the software company's sales people are imposing extra license fees on some of its clients.

Oracle Takes Its Financial Suite Global

Renee Boucher Ferguson | March 25, 2002

Oracle Corp. and PeopleSoft Inc. are developing new tools to help accountants balance the books more efficiently.

Community Builds Security

eWeek Editors | March 25, 2002

eWEEK Labs answers readers' organization-specific questions about security.

Oracle Pricing Called Into Question

Matthew Hicks | March 19, 2002

The Meta Group is advising its clients to fight attempts by Oracle to seek extra license fees for its database in a dispute over how to count users when database applications use batch feeds.

Quest Tool Ups DB Support

Timothy Dyck | March 11, 2002

Quest Software's Benchmark Factory database, Web, mail and file server benchmarking tool version 3.1 shipped last month and gains a number of enhancements.

Oracle Gives Small Businesses Control

Renee Boucher Ferguson | March 11, 2002

Oracle rolled out Version 7.6 of its Small Business Suite, which features better usability and other enhancements to help companies manage online key business functions.

The courtroom battle between open-source database vendors that some say is holding back their chance at commercial success took a step sideways on Friday, with a district judge declaring a winner-sort of.

Server Databases Clash

Timothy Dyck | February 25, 2002

Oracle9i and MySQL top the field; benchmark tests show tuning tricks to max performance.

Database performance tuning strategies

eWeek Editors | February 22, 2002

Sybase Girds for Major Product Push

eWeek Editors | February 18, 2002

Long out of contention for general-purpose dominance but entrenched in vertical markets, database maker Sybase Inc. will soon begin an aggressive rollout of new products that tout usability as their main distinction.

Oracle11i Still Bugging Users

Renee Boucher Ferguson | February 18, 2002

'Family Pack' patches add to problem.

Ellison Talks 'Cheap' Cloud at Oracle OpenWorld

DAILY VIDEO: Oracle introduces Autonomous Database Cloud and robotic security; Oracle is injecting most cloud applications with artificial intelligence; Google kills the unpopular free article...

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Intel Processors, Storage Set New Dell Servers Apart

Dell’s latest Intel-based PowerEdge servers bring new levels of operational efficiency and flexibility while extending industry-leading reliability and uptime.