Lisa Vaas

The at-large open-source community of MySQL users is panicking over Oracles second buy of the databases two transactional storage engines, Berkeley DB, although enterprise users are far more sanguine. “God*it”—thats a polite rendering of the very first public reaction of the MySQL community to Oracles purchase of both of the open-source databases crucial transactional back-end […]

Oracles purchase of the open-source embedded database company Sleepycat Software Feb. 14-the first in what is expected to be a series of similar acquisitions-gives the software giant a foothold into the embedded database market and extends its reach further into the open-source community. The acquisition of Sleepycat, the company behind Berkeley DB, for an undisclosed […]

NEW YORK—IBM is throwing $1 billion, 15,000 experts and two new server software products at the problem of wrangling business information. In an event for analysts, press and customers here on Feb. 16, executives from IBMs Software Group and its Enterprise Transformation Services Group pledged to create a new era of working together to connect […]

In order to make software more secure, the industry must get on the bandwagon for code scanning tools, incorporating them into the daily development cycle. But are the tools currently sturdy enough to stand up to immense code loads? Scanning tools are in fact getting better. Theyre scaling better, for one thing. Theyre able to […]

EnterpriseDB has updated its PostgreSQL-based database to include a free, integrated debugger; improved Oracle capability; and a new DBA Management Server for better database administration. Advanced Server 8.1, which the company announced Feb. 14 at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco, is based on the latest version of the open-source PostgreSQL database, 8.1.2. […]

MySQL snagged $18.5 million in funding on Feb. 13, and its a darn good thing, because the open-source database company needs all the help it can get to fend off Oracles yen for open-source tidbits. To wit: Oracle on Feb. 14 told the world what it already knew. Namely, that it is buying Sleepycat and […]

Oracles buy of the open-source embedded database company Sleepycat boils down to two things: deeper reach into the lucrative embedded database market, and deeper reach into the theoretically lucrative open-source community. “Theres two driving reasons: The first is theyre the market leader in their category, embedded database software,” said Robert Shimp, vice president of technology […]

Oracle is set to release details about the first update to Oracle Identity Management 10g that ties together the identity technology it gobbled up in November—Thor Technologies cross- platform provisioning technologies and OctetStrings virtual directory software. Beyond adding new compliance features and support for emerging and existing standards, the companys also sticking to its guns […]

A new database security gadget that allows for proactive hack blocking has hit the market, with Crossroads Systems announcing its StrongBox SecurDB on Feb. 13. With database breaches topping 100 in 2005 and the number of individuals affected reaching into the hundreds of millions, the time of the database security appliance is upon us. Crossroads […]

Oracle is set to announce details about the first update to Oracle Identity Management 10g that ties together the identity technology it gobbled up in November—Thor Technologies cross-platform provisioning technologies and OctetStrings virtual directory software. Beyond adding new compliance features and support for emerging and existing standards, the companys also sticking to its guns when […]

So, you got a bargain. You got Windows software for a song. What difference does a little piracy make? Microsoft has plenty of money, right? Maybe so, but every piece of pirated software makes a lot of difference to the little guys—to channel players like Joe Stopski. “[The] perception in the past was its strictly […]

Business Intelligence giant Business Objects is plunking down $69 million in cash for data-quality player Firstlogic, it announced on Feb. 8. This is the fourth—and, the company claims, final—buy for Business Objects in its quest to build what it calls a complete EIM (enterprise information management) offering. To wit: It bought Acta Technology for its […]