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Oracle is hooking more partners into its validated Linux configurations program in its efforts to cover the entire stack of components its customers might encounter when installing the open-source operating system, the company announced at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo on Aug. 16. The Oracle Validated Configurations effort now will include Brocade, Cisco Systems and […]

EnterpriseDB—the guys who want to be your Oracle plumbers—are coming out with a replication server that businesses can use in lieu of buying yet another Oracle database license, a server update with automated Oracle migration, and a service that gives real-time notification and delivery of patches and updates. EnterpriseDBs main product is EnterpriseDB Advanced Server, […]

Business Objects, hoping to inject its Business Intelligence software into the vibrant world of open-source, on Aug. 14 made available a 100 percent Java-based Crystal Reports for the open-source Eclipse development environment. Its bound to be good for Business Objects, which came out of its second quarter with teetering software license earnings as the company […]

Although a majority of Oracle users who participated in a recent study dont or wont use open-source databases, the uptake of open source in general is going strong. Sixty percent of Oracle users who responded to a survey put out by the Independent Oracle Users Group are using open-source operating systems somewhere in their operations. […]

We cant help it. We desperately want Apple to requite a little love. Just a tad would do. We look at Apples latest moneybag quarter, with earnings of 54 cents per share, and we think: Ooooh! Second-best quarter ever! And as analysts credit the companys Intel strategy of coupling Mac notebooks with Core Duo processors, […]

Patent attorneys are applauding Oracles proactive pounce on EpicRealm, a company many consider to be acting like a patent troll. “Rather than sit back and wait to be sued, or watch as EpicRealm lines its litigation coffers by extracting settlements from smaller companies, Oracle is going on the offensive to protect its business,” said Bobbie […]

Security researchers have uncovered a critical client/server protocol flaw in IBMs DB2 database. Impervas Application Defense Center reported on June 12 that it had discovered the vulnerability in DB2 Version 8. The flaw allows attackers with network access to the database server to bring the server down or to run arbitrary code. In addition, due […]

IBM has let “Viper” out of the bag, unleashing DB2 9, the next generation of its DB2 data server with XML-handling capabilities that Big Blue claims will turn our data-handling ways on their head. IBM on June 8 announced the ship date for the new data server, which is the culmination of five years of […]

Hey, tech genius, want to work in Oracle product development? Sorry—unless youre coming out of MIT, Stanford or another of a handful of brand-name tech universities, youre very likely out of luck. Better go try MySQL or IBM instead. eWEEK has viewed an internal memo from the desk of Oracles Terri Mason on the subject […]

Oracle is catering to the Linux-leery, announcing June 12 the Oracle Validated Configuration program to provide pre-tested architectures for running Oracle on Linux. The free offering includes specs for common mixes of software, hardware, storage and networking. The architectures are designed to lift the burden of pricey testing off of customers backs and get those […]

Security researchers have uncovered a critical client/server protocol flaw in IBMs DB2 database. Impervas Application Defense Center reported on June 12 that it had discovered the vulnerability—which allows any attacker with network access to the database server to bring it down or to run arbitrary code—in DB2 Version 8. The flaws severity is magnified by […]

IBM has let “Viper” out of the bag, unleashing the next-generation DB2 9 data server with XML handling capabilities that Big Blue claims will turn our data handling ways on their head. IBM on June 8 announced the ship date for the new data server, which is the culmination of five years of development. That […]