Lisa Vaas

IT departments under pressure to keep costs down welcome a move by Sun Microsystems Inc. and Oracle Corp. to lower the cost of deploying the two companies software and systems. Sun, of Santa Clara, Calif., and Oracle, of Redwood Shores, Calif., are tightening their 20-year-long alliance with what officials said will result in a “no […]

Users of IBMs DB2 software can turn to tools from BMC Software Inc. and Quest Software Inc. to manage the enterprise DBMS. BMC, as part of its Project Golden Gate initiative to enable data management in a heterogeneous environment, has added support for IBMs DB2 Universal Database in its SmartDBA performance, administration and recovery tools. […]

Users of Linux databases are drooling over the list of features promised by the forthcoming upgrade to the Linux kernel, Version 2.6. The Linux 2.6 production kernel, expected to be released later this year, will enable Linux to handle big, enterprise-class database applications. New features integrated into the main kernel will spare users the need […]

Syware Inc., maker of mobile database tools, is rolling out software to enable creation of Smartphone database applications. The product, FoneDB, is based on Microsoft Corp. Windows-powered Smartphone software. FoneDB allows mobile operators, wireless content developers and end users to create full-color, data-driven applications for mobile phones without the need for programming. FoneDB applications are […]

In an article in this months issue of the Harvard Business Review, author Nicholas Carr claims that, due to technology commoditization, “IT doesnt matter” as a strategic advantage. “By now, the core functions of IT—data storage, data processing, and data transport—have become available and affordable to all,” the article claims, turning expenditures on such technologies […]

Spending on relational databases slid 6.9 percent, from a total of $7.1 billion in 2001 down to $6.6 billion in 2002, according to a report released Wednesday by Gartner Inc. At 36.2 percent, IBM had the biggest share of new-license revenue for the worldwide RDBMS (relational database management systems) market. Oracle Corp. pulled in second, […]

The open-source MySQL database is getting souped up for x86 technology. MySQL AB announced Tuesday that the database has been optimized for Advanced Micro Devices Inc.s 64-bit Opteron processor, which is designed to be the backbone for a unified 64-bit computing infrastructure thats compatible with x86 technology. The Uppsala, Sweden, company also announced that the […]

BMC Software Inc. is rolling out support for IBM DB2 Universal Database in its SmartDBA data management software family of products, the company announced Monday at the International DB2 Users Group conference, in Las Vegas. The tools include SmartDBA Performance Management for DB2 UDB 2.5, which provides event management, diagnostic, visualization, administration, space management and […]

ANTs Software Inc. last week jumped into the ring of high-performance, high-workload database applications with the launch of ANTs Data Server. ANTs Data Server 2.0 is a SQL DBMS thats designed to deliver dramatic performance improvements over standard relational databases, according to company officials, in Burlingame, Calif. It targets applications that require intense updating, such […]

Softbase Systems Inc. is putting out a version of its test-data management tool that supports VSAM and QSAM, as well as DB2 on distributed platforms such as Unix and Windows, the company plans to announce at the International DB2 User Groups annual North America conference on Monday. Data Generation Facility 4.1 is a tool that […]