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Connecticut is suing Oracle Corp. on antitrust grounds in order to block its acquisition of PeopleSoft Inc., state leaders announced on Wednesday. Governor John G. Rowland, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and State Comptroller Nancy Wyman issued a release saying that the lawsuit would be filed on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Hartford. The lawsuit […]

IBM next year will release a tool—code-named Cinnamon—that will enable its Content Manager software to more easily index and search XML data. Cinnamon is a result of Clio, an ongoing research project at IBMs Almaden Research Center that aims to develop a tool for automatically creating mappings between different forms of data. Cinnamon will allow […]

BMC Software Inc.s SmartDBA Performance and Recovery management tools now support SAP AGs mySAP Business Suite, the company announced on Tuesday at the Sapphire 2003 conference, in Orlando, Fla. SmartDBA Performance and Recovery tools offer centralized, automated backup and recovery for distributed and mainframe database environments. Company officials said that Houston-based BMC has contracted with […]

Following PeopleSoft Inc.s announcement on Monday that it had amended its merger agreement with J.D. Edwards & Co., Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison vowed to steam ahead with Oracles hostile takeover bid. “PeopleSoft is doing everything it can to prevent its shareholders from voting,” Ellison said late Monday. “If PeopleSofts board is so convinced that […]

Sybase Inc. is bringing graphical reporting capabilities to the Mac OS X platform, announcing last week that it has integrated Quadbase Systems Inc.s graphic reporting software with its Adaptive Server Enterprise database. EspressReport 3.0.2 is a Java reporting tool that takes real-time data across any platform and turns it into reports on such things as […]

An upgrade to IBMs DB2 Express database offers small and midsize businesses a no-click, quiet-as-a-mouse, self-installing version of its enterprise-level DB2 Universal Database, IBM officials said. DB2 UDB Express Edition for Linux and Windows Version 8.1 is shipping with 65 tools for automating and simplifying database functions. Besides installing with no need for mouse clicks, […]

Microsoft will extend the distributed capabilities of its SQL Server 2000 database to more than 50 popular, proprietary databases and packaged applications, including SAPs R/3 and Business Warehouse, as well as enterprise software from J.D. Edwards, Siebel and PeopleSoft. Microsoft is doing so with the help of iWay Software, which is providing the company with […]

PeopleSoft Inc. on Monday amended its deal to buy enterprise software confederate J.D. Edwards and Co. This came after PeopleSoft on Friday filed charges against Oracle Corp., announcing that it wants to put an end to Oracles “sham tender offer” that company officials claim is aimed at “destroying PeopleSofts business.” The complaint was filed in […]

Quest Software Inc. is rolling out a version of Quest Central for Oracle that sports new memory management capabilities and automated advice that can help get DBAs out of tight spots, the company announced on Monday. Quest Central for Oracle 2.7 is a collection of database management tools including Spotlight on Oracle, a diagnostics tool; […]

Ipedo Inc. is coming out with a way to satisfy government- and industry-mandated data demands for two regulated industries: life sciences and financial services organizations. The Redwood City, Calif., company will use Liquent Inc.s Xtent engine as a means to convert existing documents into XML and then link them directly to Ipedos XML Information Hub. […]