Monthly Archives: October 2005
Red Hat Names New CTO
Enterprise Linux software maker Red Hat Inc. Tuesday announced that it has appointed Brian Stevens as its new chief technology officer and vice president...
New Coalition Will Promote OpenDocument
Emboldened by the state of Massachusetts decision last month to require the use of open-standard document formats in all state offices by Jan. 1,...
Oracle Lets Fly Zippy TimesTen Database
Oracle Corp. has put out its first branding of the hyper-fast TimesTen in-memory database it acquired in June, releasing Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database 6.0...
Oracle Scores Open-Source InnoDB Storage Engine
Oracle on Friday purchased InnoDB, the Finnish open-source database company whose add-on table storage engine for MySQL rivals MySQLs own MyISAM in popularity.
InnoDB Oy...
Hyperion Redefines BPM
Business performance management software developer Hyperion Solutions Corp. this week will announce System 9, the next progression of its software that integrates financial management...
Oracle Faces Uphill Channel Climb
It appears that Oracle has finally discovered small and midsize businesses.
While just about every other company in the IT universe has been tripping over...
Virgin Atlantic Tries RFID on for Size
Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. prides itself on being different, forward-thinking and fun. But in its airline maintenance and engineering division, fun is the last...
Pings & Packets from eWEEK Labs – 27
ipMonitor Tool Is Limited but UsefulSNMP Assistant, a free utility from ipMonitor, works with ipMonitors Management Information Base database to scan SNMP-enabled devices.Because SNMP...
Microsoft FAT Patents Rejected
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected two key Microsoft Corp. patent applications relating to the companys file allocation table file system. But...
Visual Basic Gets Its VB Back
Microsoft Corp. officials said the new features in the upcoming version of Visual Basic will appease developers who have been angry since the company...