Lisa Vaas

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Monday pushed forward with its low-end strategy by announcing a tighter partnership with database giant Oracle Corp. and rolling out two new low-cost servers. At an event in San Francisco, Scott McNealy, president, chairman and CEO of Sun, and Oracle Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison spoke about how many data centers […]

Database users who rely on Linux operating systems are drooling over the list of features promised by the 2.6 kernel. As reported by eWEEK last week, the Linux production 2.6 kernel, to be released likely by the fall, will move the operating system into a position of handling big, enterprise-class database applications by putting powerful […]

IBM will announce general availability of its much-heralded DB2 Information Integrator software on Tuesday, at the same time that Striva Corp. announces that it will extend Information Integrator by enabling it to access mainframe data sources. The news will be delivered at two forums: the IBM Software Symposium in Munich, Germany, and at the International […]

President George W. Bush on Thursday appointed Microsoft Corp. SQL Server architect Pedro Celis to serve a two-year term on the Presidents Information and Technology Advisory Committee. This 25-member committee is made up of information infrastructure experts from industry and academia. The committee advises the president on how to maintain U.S. pre-eminence in information technology, […]

IBM is launching a beta program for a T Rex version of its DB2 8 database that will run mainframe applications faster, explosively grow potential address storage and revolutionize the alteration of databases. The Somers, N.Y., company on Tuesday announced T Rex, its next-generation mainframe. Starting with 32 chips, the eServer z990 will grow to […]

Use of careers Web sites for recruiting is now nearly ubiquitous among the Global 500, pointing to the creation of a truly global work force, according to a new report from iLogos Research. The report, “Global 500 Website Recruiting 2003 Survey,” found that 94 percent of the worlds largest companies are recruiting online, up 3 […]

Oracle Corp.s plan to offer a single-browser-based view in its Oracle Enterprise Manager is being greeted with glee by users, particularly in light of a major Oracle database vulnerability discovered late last month. Oracle, at the International Oracle User Group conference in Orlando, Fla., late last month, outlined its vision of a self-managing database that […]

Best-of-breed XML database developers Ipedo Inc., Sonic Software Corp. and Sleepycat Software Inc. are enhancing their respective native XML database software to make it easier for enterprises to use and manage XML data in Web services environments. Ipedo, for example, late this month will release Version 3.3 of its XML Information Hub, which boasts three […]

Cisco certified engineers are still in demand by at least one government contractor—that is, if theyve got security clearance or qualify for clearance. Wam!net Government Services Inc., a provider of secure network, storage and hosted application and infrastructure services that caters to the government, is looking to more than triple its staff for the second […]

FileMaker Inc.s FileMaker Pro 6 Unlimited database nabbed a Codie Award for Best Numeric/Database Software at the Software & Information Industry Association annual conference on Tuesday in San Francisco. The SIIA picked FileMaker over IBM DB2 Universal Database 8.1 and three other finalists. FileMaker was also a finalist for the SIIAs Best Business Productivity Product […]