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Software AG Inc. is releasing an upgrade of its Tamino XML Server that includes a new indexing tool for metadata searches on non-XML documents such as Microsoft Corp. Word and Sun Microsystems Inc. StarOffice files, the company announced Tuesday. Tamino XML Server 4.1.4s Non-XML Indexer is a plug-in module that extends Taminos set of searchable […]

PeopleSoft Inc.s board of directors on Tuesday again snubbed Oracle Corp.s attempt to take it over, releasing a letter to shareholders that called Oracles tender offer an underbid and a business destabilizer. Oracles attempted hostile takeover, which it launched earlier last month, “poses extraordinary risks,” the letter stated, and is “destructive to stockholder value.” Danger […]

Sybase Inc. subsidiary iAnywhere Solutions Inc.s latest update of SQL Anywhere Studio will bring sophisticated technologies to the small devices that run the mobile database. SQL Anywhere Studio 9, announced last week, includes XML import and export capabilities; SQLx functionality, for coding in the combined SQL and XML languages; and HTTP server and Simple Object […]

Pervasive Software Inc. has released an extension for its Pervasive.SQL embedded database that will connect to remote Linux-based devices such as desktops, point-of-sale systems, set-top boxes and medical equipment. Remote Data Requester for Linux is now available as a free download from the companys site. Michael Doty, senior systems engineer for Flexible Solutions Inc., a […]

Quest Software Inc. is rolling out a version of its database management tools for the Oracle Corp. database that sports new memory management capabilities and automated advice that can help get database administrators out of tight spots, company officials said. Quest Central for Oracle 2.7 enables database performance tuning, administration, performance diagnostics and space management […]

Sybase Inc. subsidiary iAnywhere Solutions Inc.s latest update of SQL Anywhere Studio will bring sophisticated technologies to the small devices that run the mobile database. SQL Anywhere Studio 9, unveiled on Monday, includes XML import and export capabilities, SQLx functionality, and HTTP server and SOAP support that enable the creation of database-powered Web services. It […]

PeopleSoft Inc.s board of directors on Friday unanimously rejected Oracle Corp.s revised bid of $19.50 per share. The board reiterated its previously expressed concern that the offer is not in stockholders best interest, saying in a statement that the proposed takeover would face “substantial regulatory delays and a significant likelihood that the transaction would be […]

Connecticut on Thursday shrugged off a conciliatory letter sent the day before by Oracle Corp. Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison, as Attorney General Richard Blumenthal vowed to continue to seek relief and to consult with consumers and other states on its antitrust suit against Oracle. “Nothing we have learned so far has diminished our determination […]

Application Security Inc. is rolling out a security scanner for MySQL, the open-source database from MySQL AB, and for Web applications. AppDetective 3.2 for Web Applications and AppDetective 3.2 for MySQL are network-based vulnerability assessment scanners that locate and assess the security of network database applications. Both Web applications and back-end databases can provide an […]

BMC Software Inc. has gobbled up yet another company, a small IBM DB2 Universal Database toolmaker, company officials told eWEEK on Wednesday—a move thats in line with its Project Golden Gate roadmap for providing data management tools that work in a heterogeneous environment. BMC, of Houston, Texas, is paying $3 million for DGI (Database Guys […]