Lisa Vaas

Oracle wants to cook up its own stack, based on Linux and has pondered purchasing Novell as a quick way to get its own Linux flavor to kick-start the project, Larry Ellison recently told the Financial Times. Thats a no-brainer. Oracle has been pushing Linux like mad for some time. Small wonder, given that it […]

In the coming year, Linux is set to push Unix out of its traditional reigning role as the Oracle operating system of choice, a new survey predicts. Solaris, Sun Microsystems flagship Unix operating system, now dominates Oracle sites. Its installed at 49 percent of Oracle shops among the 812 surveyed in January by the Independent […]

Oracle refuses to confirm or deny that it spent the past few months working through the details of acquiring JBoss. But the rumor mill has suggested that Oracle uncovered code ownership issues when doing due diligence in preparation for an acquisition. With Oracle refusing to comment, theres no way to confirm that premise. But if […]

The database titans are at it again, duking it out this time in the realm of storage and backup. For its part, IBM on April 6 told eWEEK in an interview that Viper, its upcoming update to its DB2 database server software, has been infused with technology that compresses data throughout the system, including on […]

At LinuxWorld earlier the week of April 3, I hooked up with Dave Dargo, once vice president of Oracles Linux program office and now chief technology officer and senior vice president of strategy for Ingres. He shared some interesting thoughts on new markets for Ingres, but before I go there, I need to pop a […]

In the coming year, Linux is set to push Unix out of its traditional reigning role as the Oracle operating system of choice, a new survey predicts. Solaris, Suns flagship Unix operating system, now dominates Oracle sites. Its installed at 49 percent of Oracle shops among the 812 surveyed in January by the Independent Oracle […]

BOSTON—EnterpriseDB has scooped up Bruce Momjian, a leading PostgreSQL developer and member of the open-source databases Core Team, to serve as senior database architect, the company announced here at LinuxWorld on April 4. The company also hired Simon Riggs, another major PostgreSQL contributor and an authority on the databases performance. Riggs will work alongside Momjian […]

Stage 1 breast cancer tumors are small—less than 2 centimeters in diameter. The mammogram images that can save a womans life are enormous—both in the sense of their critical role in diagnosis and in the fact that they take up a massive amount of storage and hospital floor space. Thanks to NDMA (National Digital Medical […]

Helping enterprises find data thats right under their noses means big bucks, and Oracles gotten hip to it—much to the chagrin of boutique enterprise search vendors. On March 1, Oracle unveiled a secure enterprise search engine that reaches into every nook and cranny but minds its ps and qs around business rules and sensitive data. […]

Oracle may indeed be thinking of ditching its licensing model altogether in favor of becoming a pure subscription player over the coming two years, as Renee Ferguson reported on March 20. It sure wouldnt come as a great surprise, given Larry Ellisons comments at the Feb. 8 Credit Suisse Software Conference that licensing revenue “was […]

IBM is purchasing Language Analysis Systems, a maker of software that matches names and aliases across languages and cultures to track individual identities, the company announced on March 16. LAS is yet another piece to fit into IBMs Information on Demand puzzle. LAS, a privately held company, makes technology that verifies the origin, cultural variations […]

Helping enterprises to find data thats right under their noses means big bucks, and Oracles gotten hip to it—much to the chagrin of boutique enterprise search vendors. On March 1, Oracle unveiled a secure enterprise search engine that reaches into every nook and cranny but minds its ps and qs around business rules and sensitive […]