Lisa Vaas

Open-source relational database maker EnterpriseDB Tuesday released an upgrade to its front-line product of the same name that includes a new, expanded code base and the addition of JasperReports, a widely used open-source reporting tool. The company made the announcement at the Open Source Business Conference in Newton, Mass. EnterpriseDB 2005 Release 2 is a […]

NEWTON, Mass.—A panel of CIOs at the Open Source Business Conference here on Tuesday said theyre spreading the open-source love all around, but the family jewels were top of the list when asked what part of the enterprise theyre still too petrified to tinker with. “[It gets back to] the definition of CIO: Career Is […]

NEWTON, MASS.—They lined up onstage to float their 1-minute elevator pitches, these sellers of open-source dreams: XenSource Inc. with virtualization software, ActiveGrid with its grid application server, EnterpriseDB with its PostgreSQL-based database. Its not that the pitches didnt zero in on enterprise pain points. “We are looking for that very technology,” said Rick Carey, vice […]

Oracle on Monday plans to release an update to Enterprise Manager that slaps at two pain points in grid computing: getting IT services available to meet agreed-upon service levels, and being able to measure whether IT is helping the business out or dragging it down. With Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g R2, Oracle Corp. aims to […]

Attackers can easily crack even strong Oracle database passwords and gain access to critical enterprise data because of weak password protection mechanisms, researchers have warned. In the most recent of Oracles security woes, Joshua Wright of the SANS Institute and Carlos Cid of the Information Security Group at the University of Londons Royal Holloway college […]

Emic Networks, provider of clustering for MySQL databases and Apache Web servers, on Monday announced it has changed its name; is opening up its product line to cluster PostgreSQL, Microsoft Corp.s SQL Server, Sybase Inc. and Oracle Corp. databases; and has gotten a fat injection of cash to pump it all out. The company has […]

Theres nothing cheap about the BI capabilities of Office 12 when you have to upgrade all your desktops and many servers to get there, competing BI vendors say. “Today, BI is too expensive, too hard to use and too inconvenient,” proclaimed Jeff Raikes, president of Microsofts Business Division, when the company on Monday talked up […]

Open-source database adoption has shot up 20 percent in the last six months, according to new research. Evans Data Corp.s Fall 2005 Database Development Survey, released on Tuesday, found that deployment of MySQL, for example, increased by more than 25 percent in that time. The open-source database is being used by 44 percent of 400 […]

OpenOffice.orgs latest update includes a database that matches Microsofts popular and competing Access database, experts say. “Its definitely a big deal,” said Stephen OGrady, an analyst at the IT analysis firm RedMonk. “Now with the [OpenOffice.org Base], although I have not evaluated it to the extent that I can call it 100 percent at functional […]

A security researcher has reported that Oracles most recent quarterly cumulative patch update, released on Tuesday, leaves some flaws exploitable. David Litchfield, a security research with Next Generation Security Software Ltd., was in the process of auditing the CPU when this story was posted. Litchfield on Wednesday evening posted to BugTraq a message saying that […]

ORLANDO—“Nick Carr was wrong,” said Gartner analyst Richard Hunt. “IT matters more all the time.” And what happens when an industry really matters? It gets regulated. Think of civil engineering, said Hunt, during a session on the coming of regulation on the IT industry on Monday at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo here. Civil engineering was pretty slap-happy […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Appistry Inc. on Tuesday unfurled an update to its enterprise application lineup that includes “fabric memory,” a virtual, in-memory area for storing dynamic application data. Application fabric is a term that describes software that distributes tasks to dissimilar, potentially budget-priced commodity servers while delivering the high availability that Oracle Corp. touts with RAC (Real […]