Lisa Vaas

IBM is enabling spidering technology to reach and index more of WebSphere Commerce users Web pages in its coming upgrade, due out next week. In WebSphere Commerce 5.6.1, IBM will deliver URL mapping that allows search engines to index dynamic pages. Dynamic pages have long been a stumbling block for spidering technology, also known as […]

In an effort to quash one of the strongest inhibitors to grid adoption in the enterprise, the Enterprise Grid Alliance on Monday released a set of security requirements that documents potential grid-related security holes as well as how to patch them. One such potential weak spot is around provisioning and deprovisioning of grid components, for […]

A “highly critical” flaw has been reported in MySQL that can be exploited to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or to execute arbitrary code on the open-source database, according to security alerts aggregator Secunia Inc. The vulnerability lies in the fact that MySQL uses a vulnerable zlib library. Zlib is a data compression library […]

After releasing a patch earlier this month for a faulty April Cumulative Patch Update, Oracle Corp. now says its patched patch also needs to be fixed. In addition, its July patch set is flawed, according to an e-mail that its Global Product Support division sent out last week. Oracle had initially attempted to fix the […]

Since the ChoicePoint headlines in February, the number of reported data breaches of personal information has exploded to the point that the tally now reaches a staggering 50,324,480 records exposed to potential theft and fraud. The breaches have affected Congress as fertilizer to daylilies, with a new identity-theft law sprouting every few weeks, the most […]

Software AG on Thursday will roll out technology designed to make real-time data changes in Adabas, the companys high-performance database that is designed for large, mission-critical applications. Adabas is designed to support thousands of users in parallel with sub-second response times. The company has come out with Event Replicator, a product that will let users […]

After a tenure of 31 years during which she carved DB2 into a sharp Oracle competitor, Janet Perna is retiring as general manager of data management solutions for the IBM Software Group, an IBM spokesperson told eWEEK.com on Tuesday. In August, Perna will turn over the reins to Ambuj Goyal, general manager of Workplace, Portal […]

IBM on Tuesday announced it is snapping up PureEdge Solutions Inc., a developer of electronic forms that hook into back-end data and applications in order to present them to users in standardized, customizable templates. As a partner, PureEdge is already tightly integrated with IBM technologies. Its XML forms are integrated with IBMs Content Manager, WebSphere […]

Vector Capital announced on Monday that it has purchased WinZip Computing Inc., maker of the ubiquitous file compression download that ranks near the top of the list of most popular downloads and that even predates the Internet itself. Chris Nicholson, a partner at San Francisco-based Vector Capital, said WinZip gets downloaded some 500,000 times a […]

Oracle Corp.s vice president of pricing and licensing defended the math behind the companys new and comparatively stingy 25 percent rebate on multicore processors, saying that customers are now getting charged for what they in fact get: a 1.5 to 1.75 times performance boost from a dual-core chip. “We have done quite a bit of […]

Oracle has finally caved—a little—to industry outrage over its refusal to get in line with competitors IBM and Microsoft and update its licensing policy to accommodate multicore chips. Licensing terms for the Oracle Store Web site now state that, for the purposes of counting how many processors need to be licensed, a multicore chip with […]

Patching systems is always painful, but Tuesdays scenario of two major cumulative patch sets on the same day—from Oracle and Microsoft—is downright sadistic. When will this patching madness end? Not soon. Although theres a concerted effort on the part of ISVs to develop more secure code, analysts predict that it will take generations before this […]