Lisa Vaas

Oracle threw the final version of its Oracle Database 10g XE (Express Edition) into the freebie RDBMS ring on Feb. 28. Oracle announced the beta for Oracle Database XE in early November. It is designed to give lower-end application developers and students a leg up into Oracle technology. The database is free to develop, deploy […]

What does Microsofts Front Runner program for SQL Server 2005 mean to channel partners, in concrete terms? For the first time, Embarcadero Technologies is going to be big in Sao Paolo, big in Asia—big in places it could never reach before with its database management technologies. For its part, Tenrox is on track to get […]

There are a lot of people the U.S. government doesnt want to let into the country. The problem is, how does the government compare notes with, say, a cruise line, to ensure that suspected terrorists and the like dont get on board? More specifically, how does it share such data without allowing it to fall […]

A load-balancing startup is taking the balancing act to databases, and its managed to boot MySQL out of another startup as its first bragging rights. The startup, Xkoto, launched at the end of December with its Database Load Balancer. It currently works with IBMs recently launched freebie version of its database, DB2 Express-C. Its launch […]

MySQL has hired Jim Starkey, creator of the InterBase database—which later became the popular open-source Firebird database—in addition to scooping up Starkeys one-man Firebird-based company, Netfrastructure. Starkey posted a letter to the Firebird community advising them of the news on Feb. 18. In the letter, Starkey said that he will be working full-time for MySQL, […]

Making good on its promise to ease support of non-Oracle technology, Oracle has added support for the Microsoft .Net Framework and Windows Server System, including the SQL Server database, to Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control. Oracle EM is technology for monitoring applications and services through one integrated console. It allows for application- and service-level […]

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 […]