Lisa Vaas

Princeton Softech is deepening and broadening Optim, its data archiving and retention software for Oracle E-Business Suite, so that it covers more modules and can serve up more details for data audits. The company on April 24 will announce the availability of Optim 4.0. Optim is technology that lets enterprises apply business rules for managing […]

Oracle came to talk telecom, and aside from a few throwaway comments about open source, execs did just that, outlining the companys first foray into a vertical market for its middleware. To that end, Oracle on April 18 announced yet another acquisition: This time, its Net4Call, a Norway-based provider of Parlay and SLEE (Service Logic […]

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 […]