Lisa Vaas

MySQL AB on Tuesday announced two landmarks for its open-source MySQL database: optimization for the 64-bit Intel Itanium 2 processor running the Linux operating system, as well as the labeling of Version 4.0 as being at production level. The leap to 64-bit hones the MySQL database for targeting large databases, data mining and other enterprise […]

Users of some versions of Protegrity Inc.s database encryption technology, Secure.Data for Microsoft Corp.s SQL Server 2000, need to patch their systems. The Stamford, Conn., company late last month put out a patch to cover three buffer-overflow vulnerabilities in Secure.Datas XPs (extended stored procedures)—procedures that are used to do encryption and decryption on databases. XPs […]

Startup Savantis Systems Inc. this week will introduce a switching technology that company officials said will reduce the number of servers enterprises need to run their databases. According to company officials in Lexington, Mass., the new dbSwitch pools server capacity thats assigned to Oracle Corp. databases, maximizing the use of the CPUs and RAM of […]

Syware Inc. next week will unveil sqlceEnable, software that allows handheld users to create and print invoices, quotes, customer receipts and other custom reports from a Pocket PC or Windows CE device using data from SQL Server CE databases. Reports can draw data from multiple tables within the same database. Filtering allows users to choose […]

To help police, banks and other business institutions search their databases as they try to track down suspected al Qaeda associate Adnan G. El Shukrijumah, a maker of smart name-recognition software is giving away a collection of over 500 linguistic name and alias variations. The FBI said on Thursday that El Shukrijumah is possibly involved […]

R:BASE Technologies Inc. and Syware Inc. this week launched Pocket R:BASE, the first mobile version of R:BASEs database product line. Pocket R:BASE is designed for the Pocket PC platform and combines R:BASEs relational DBMSes with Sywares Visual CE, a database development tool for Pocket PC and Windows CE handhelds. R:BASE officials in Murrysville, Pa., said […]

Sybase Inc. on Thursday announced that its ASE (Adaptive Server Enterprise) 12.5.0.3 database now supports the active-passive agent in Sun Microsystems Inc.s Cluster 3 software. Active-passive is a lower-cost member of High-Availability product options in Suns SunPlex clustering platform. Active-active, its high-end, highest-cost agent, allows multiple Sybase ASE deployments to work together to provide hot-standby […]

Sleepycat Software Inc. this week rolled out a version of Berkeley DB, its open-source embedded data management software, for Linux operating systems that comply with a recent Open Source Development Lab Inc. specification used by telecommunications equipment manufacturers and telecom network operators. Released last year, the OSDL CGL (Carrier-Grade Linux) 1.1 specincludes standards such as […]

Enterprises in the U.S. are continuing to shed IT jobs and, as they do, burnout among those left is beginning to mount, according to a pair of recently-released studies. Updated figures from the AeA show that the U.S. high-tech industry lost more than half a million jobs over the past two years—a 10 percent shaving […]

Enterprises in general are choosing Oracle Corp. relational DBMSes more often than comparable databases from IBM or Microsoft Corp., but Oracles lead in market share is threatened as customers scale back deployments. International Data Corp., of Framingham, Mass., last week announced that the gap between Oracle and IBM is narrowing and that Microsoft is showing […]