Lisa Vaas

AppSecInc will roll out canned best policies for its database-auditing and intrusion detection software on Monday at InfoSec World. The latest additions to AppSecIncs current roster of best practices will cover the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and FISMA, the Federal Information Security Management Act. SarbOx requires accountability for the integrity of financial reporting by executives, auditors, securities […]

While Oracle Corp. has long been a player in the identity management market, on Monday it busted out of the straitjacket of catering to its own customers by announcing it would buy technology to let it support whatever heterogeneous mixes customers bring to the table. To that end, Oracle is buying electronic identity management and […]

The ship date for Microsofts massive database overhaul hasnt slipped again, per se; rather, Microsoft has redefined what “summer” means, according to Tom Rizzo, director of SQL Server product management. “What we heard is summer is confusing to a lot of people,” said Rizzo, in Redmond, Wash. “We didnt change any internal dates. Our development […]

Legal organizations scrutinizing the legitimacy of Microsoft Corp.s patent on automatic IP address generation have an “anti-patent” agenda, according to Microsoft. “This isnt the first time weve seen these groups [the Public Patent Foundation and the Software Freedom Law Center] make accusations about Microsoft patents,” said David Kaefer, Microsofts director of intellectual property licensing, in […]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Wednesday filed an appeal as it seeks to block Apple Computer Inc. from getting its hands on a reporters confidential sources. The appeal concerned a ruling earlier this month by a California court that declared that an online journalists ISP must reveal the identities of the reporters confidential sources to […]

Lawyers for the Public Patent Foundation and the Software Freedom Law Center are scrutinizing a patent held by Microsoft for which, one lawyer told eWEEK.com, Microsoft failed to disclose prior work done by the Internet Engineering Task Force. “This patent has been called to the attention of the free world, including the Public Patent Foundation,” […]

Sybase has threatened legal action against a security research firm if it releases details of vulnerabilities it found last year in Sybases Adaptive Server Enterprise product, even though Sybase already has issued patches for the flaws. Such threats of legal action are not unprecedented, but they typically come in the form of phone calls from […]

Not only are Canadas border towns being swamped by U.S. citizens looking to avoid prohibitively costly drugs—so are its online drugstores. One of the largest, CanadaDrugs.com, has turned to clustering of MySQL databases on Emic Networks EAC (Emic Application Clustering) technology to avoid freezing its rapidly expanding workforce out of their ever-escalating order-processing tasks. Curtis […]

OuterBay has released a new version of its tool for culling inactive data from databases. Application Data Management Suite 4.0 is designed to be more flexible, more automatic and easier to use. ADM is an ILM (information lifecycle management) tool that identifies active and inactive data in databases. ADM relocates the inactive data—what users may […]

Mandrakesoft on Monday announced it will release a transitional Linux product as it absorbs technology from Conectiva, a Brazilian Linux company it acquired in February. The French company also announced that it is slowing down the release cycle—now to take place annually—on its Mandrakelinux products in order to give itself and its channel partners more […]

SQL Server 2005 is performing just fine in at least one beta customers site, contrary to a recent report that expressed doubt as to the upcoming relational DBMS ability to do high-performance computing. Jim Holt, vice president of server development for Townsend Analytics Ltd., said that data rates are “extremely high” in the real-time electronic […]

SQL Server 2005 will likely be a dud at delivering high-performance computing, according to a new report from Forrester Research Inc. This major upgrade of Microsoft Corp.s enterprise relational DBMS is due in the summer. Summer being only a few months away, its “surprising” that no TPC-C results have yet been published, according to Noel […]