Lisa Vaas

Even as PeopleSoft Inc. readies to complete its acquisition of J.D. Edwards & Co., Oracle Corp. is affirming its continued interest in buying PeopleSoft. One of the last hurdles to PeopleSofts acquisition of J.D. Edwards has been removed, PeopleSoft disclosed on Monday. The U.S. Department of Justice has said that the proposed deal does not […]

All gain, no pain—that was Sybase Inc.s pledge as it threw open the door to its new Linux Competency Center, a Linux professional services practice, in New York on Monday. The company also announced record test results for its ASE 12.5 database running on Linux. According to Raj Nathan, senior vice president and general manager […]

Oracle Corp. will announce the next iteration of its bread-and-butter Oracle9i database at OracleWorld in September, company contacts today confirmed. The upgrade is being called Oracle10i by everybody in the database community except Oracle itself, which insists that neither the products final name nor pricing details has yet been determined. Oracle10i is a large evolutionary […]

Waves of IT employers are moving to the use of short-term incentive and bonus pay to improve IT workers job performance, according to a new study. People3, a Bridgewater, N.J., company belonging to Gartner Inc., found that such quick fixes are now popular with 39.1 percent of those surveyed, compared with 30.9 percent in 2002. […]

BMC Software Inc. is releasing data management software that promises to streamline data reorganizations by eliminating guesswork and unnecessary maintenance, the company announced on Tuesday. MAXM Database Advisor for IMS automatically advises users of their reorg needs, which should help to conserve precious DBA (database-administrator) resources, said officials, in Houston, Texas. The software offers a […]

Lakeview Technology Inc. and OuterBay Technologies are each readying technologies to juggle data replication and management while retaining real-time access to the data. Lakeview, of Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., next month will roll out OmniReplicator 4.0, a major update to its data replication software that reflects an important architecture overhaul with the introduction of Java and […]

MySQL AB has teamed up with Pogo Linux Inc. to put its open-source database into a box. The Uppsala, Sweden, database maker announced the partnership on Monday and will preview the integrated hardware/software database appliance at the OReilly Open Source Convention, on July 9-10 in Portland, Ore. Dubbed the DataWare 2600 Server, the turnkey appliance […]

PeopleSoft Inc. has thrown a security blanket around its customers during the ongoing drama of Oracle Corp.s attempt to acquire it. To minimize business loss and mollify queasy customers, PeopleSoft on Thursday created a so-called customer protection plan that would spike its purchase price by some $354 million were Oracle to slack off on selling, […]

Pervasive Software Inc. is pairing full-text search software with its Pervasive.SQL embedded database. The company is expected to announce on Monday that it has licensed the technology from Abacus Research A.G., of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Pervasive, of Austin, Texas, plans to release the search software as a separate product sometime this year and also plans […]

Lakeview Technology Inc. and OuterBay Technologies are coming out with ways to juggle data replication and management while retaining real-time access to that data. Lakeview, of Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., is getting ready to roll out OmniReplicator 4.0, a major update to its data replication software that reflects an important architecture overhaul with the introduction of […]