Lisa Vaas

Business Objects on Feb. 7 will help to unfrazzle consumer packaged-goods execs by delivering analytics that spell out whats going on with all the money theyre spending on trade promotions. BusinessObjects Trade Promotion Effectiveness Analytics will be backed up by the release of industry-focused BusinessObjects XI Release 2 analytic applications, which run on the companys […]

Rumors have been flying about Oracles next acquisition target: namely, open-source middleware leader JBoss. This Java Industry News article popped up on Jan. 27, crystallizing rumors that JBoss has been making the rounds, popping in at Hewlett-Packard and IBM to find the sugar daddy with the deepest pockets. If the rampant speculation proves correct and […]

Imperva on Jan. 30 rolled out three new SecureSphere Gateway appliances that help meet regulatory requirements imposed by PCI Data Security Standards, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The boxes address these requirements by integrating reporting intelligence with a database security gateway, Web application firewall, network firewall and IPS (intrusion […]

Big banks are confronting technology service providers to learn how their customers sensitive data is being protected from security breaches. The Wall Street Journal on Feb. 1 reported that Wells Fargo, Bank of New York, Bank of America, Citigroup, J.P. Morgan Chase and U.S. Bancorp, backed by major accounting firms and a financial services industry […]

Coinciding with IBMs release of its freebie DB2 version— DB2 Universal Database Express-C (Community Edition)—on Jan. 30, partners rolled out an ecosystem to support it, with news coming from ActiveGrid, Mandriva, Zend Technologies and Net Integration Technologies. That ecosystem will feature ActiveGrids bundling of DB2 Express-C in its ActiveGrid Enterprise LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python) […]

Massachusetts has appointed a new CIO and made it clear that his job will be to forge ahead with implementing the controversial OpenDocument format, set to go into effect in January 2007. The new CIO, Louis Gutierrez, will step into the shoes vacated by Peter Quinn, who stepped down Jan. 9. Quinn, the man who […]

Application Security is updating AppRadar, its real-time intrusion detection and security auditing tool, so that it regularly updates with security checks for freshly spawned nasties such as the Oracle Voyager non-activated worm code. AppRadar 3.0, due out in March, will also be integrated with AppSecIncs AppDetective vulnerability assessment tool and will therefore flag threats even […]

The last of the database giants is adapting to the demands of all-you-can-eat, no-money-down, open-source code, with IBM set to roll out a freebie DB2 version on Jan. 30. DB2 Universal Database Express-C (Community Edition) will offer the same core DB2 server, but in a smaller package, designed for application embedding as well as software […]

Sleepycat has put out a new version of its open-source Berkeley DB Java Edition developers database that better hooks up in relationships, moves faster and has improved support for highly concurrent applications. Berkeley DB Java Edition Version 2.1 features multikey secondary databases that provide direct support for many-to-many and one-to-many relationships. Also, the update features […]

Its an intense time for skirmishes between government and corporate America. The Senate will take up the question of renewing the Patriot Act during the week of Jan. 30, and Google is fighting tooth and nail to keep search terms and search results out of the hands of the government. For the private sector, the […]