Lisa Vaas

BOSTON—Oracle Corp. Vice President of Marketing Rene Bonvanie on Wednesday opened the Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo 2002 by demonstrating a simulation of an “unbreakable” eight-node cluster running the companys Oracle9i RAC (Real Application Cluster) technology on top of Linux. With equipment set up to resemble database servers and four application servers, Bonvanie flipped […]

Two open-source database developers are upgrading their respective software in an effort to make them more attractive to the enterprise. Open-source database leader MySQL AB, of Uppsala, Sweden, this week will announce Version 4.0.5 of its namesake database with support for IBMs zSeries servers running the Linux and AIX operating systems. While such support is […]

Pervasive Software Inc. this week is announcing the availability of Pervasive.SQL 8.0, its embedded database software, with added performance and enhancements to the products integrated Client Cache engine and Dynamic Cache. Corey Malcom, quality assurance engineer for Timberline Software Corp., an independent software vendor in Beaverton, Ore., whos been beta testing the software for a […]

SHATTER, Application Security Inc.s security and development team, last week discovered three new potential security holes in Sybase Inc. database servers. The team, aka Security Heuristics of Application Testing Technology for Enterprise Research, found the following vulnerabilities, which could theoretically enable an attacker to overwrite the stack and execute arbitrary code: DBCC CHECK VERIFY buffer […]

Two of the leading open-source database vendors, MySQL AB and PostgreSQL Inc., are making bids for the enterprise with new features and support. MySQL, of Uppsala, Sweden, next week will announce support for IBMs zSeries servers running the Linux and AIX operating systems. Such support has been available to open-source users for some time, but […]

Ipedo Inc. next week will ship Dynamic Information Suite 3.2, an update of a native XML-based suite that features virtual document links, full-text XQuery searches, XML indexing and flexible content organization to simplify access to distributed content. The upgrade, originally announced in September, provides a platform for integrating, organizing and managing change for mixed content […]

IBM last week announced general availability of DB2 Universal Database 8, an enterprise data management platform with features that officials say should keep the cost of operations in check. To keep a handle on the cost of running the upgraded database, the product includes features designed to avert the need for more database administrators or […]

AppForge Inc. and iAnywhere Solutions Inc. are sharing mobile database technology to make the development of cross-platform, enterprise-class applications for handheld computing devices quicker and easier. Atlanta-based AppForge integrated iAnywheres SQL Anywhere Studio mobile software into Version 4.0 of its own MobileVB development environment, which the two companies demonstrated last week at Comdex, in Las […]

While support for XML grew last week as IBM released DB2 Universal Database 8 with support for the language, support of a limited query language from a standards group could limit the broad use of XML. With the addition of Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations, a SQL function for automatic style transformation, DB2 now has about […]

Core Integration Partners Inc. on Monday rolled out its rapid deployment suite, consisting of RapidMAP and RapidMODEL. The offering combines consulting services with two software wizards that automate the building of baseline data flow diagrams and data models. RapidMAP helps developers automatically create basic source-to-target mappings that can then be integrated into Informatica Corp.s PowerMart […]

Sybase Inc. and SuSE Linux AG on Tuesday announced a new, global partnership to provide the companies joint partners with an easy-to-use Linux platform for Sybases enterprise-class, relational database system, Adaptive Server Enterprise. ASE will support the upcoming SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8, powered by UnitedLinux—a standards-based Linux operating system targeted at business users and […]

Database administrators can look forward to help managing databases from Oracle Corp. and other developers with the release of tools announced by Oracle, Expand Beyond Corp., DataMirror Corp. and Quest Software Inc. at OracleWorld last week in San Francisco. Oracle, of Redwood Shores, Calif., set the tone with the release of EM (Enterprise Manager) 4.0, […]