Lisa Vaas

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 […]

McAfee has turned inside to fill the leadership hole left when its president, Gene Hodges, abruptly quit on Jan. 10. The anti-virus security vendor announced March 13 that it is plucking McAfee veteran Kevin Weiss out of his role as executive vice president of worldwide sales and plugging him into the role of president. McAfee […]

Oracle is sure to wreak havoc in the market for database development tools with the GA release of a free and compelling database development tool put out on March 10, industry watchers said. “I think its time to start wondering whether [competing products from Quest Software] including Toad and Rapid Navigator will exist in two […]

Information Builders is “Google-izing” enterprise search and business intelligence reporting, giving enterprises an easy way to search corporate data centers. The New York-based company plans to announce on March 6 its new tool, WebFocus Intelligent Search. WebFocus combines Information Builders iWay integration technology with the Google Search Appliance and an easy-to-use Google front end that […]

Don Haderle, the man known as the “father of DB2,” has signed on to be the first member of a technical advisory board being set up by ANTs Software. ANTs markets a super-fast SQL database management system, the ANTs Data Server. Developed through supercomputing techniques where locking is avoided, it allows tremendous concurrency and the […]

Oracle is domesticating the powerful beast of Google-like search, unveiling 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 Secure Enterprise Search 10g, which the company announced on March 1, scours and indexes enterprise data cubbies, including internal and […]

An update to Ideras SQL Server backup and recovery software cranks the speed and tightens ties with the latest version of the database. SQLsafe 3.0, which Idera announced on Feb. 28, is a recovery tool that features encrypted and multi-server backup, designed to help to ease backup and restore across large SQL Server environments. The […]