Lisa Vaas

A California court ruled Friday that an online journalists ISP must reveal the identities of the reporters confidential sources to attorneys from Apple Computer Inc., rejecting a request for an order to protect the confidentiality of the sources and other unpublished information. “…The United States and California Supreme Courts have underscored that trade secret laws […]

Some 14 months ago, Oracle faced the music. As little as the database giant likes the fact that organizations have business applications made by vendors that are not, in fact, itself, it announced technology to cull, clean and enrich data from disparate sources. As such, in the pre-PeopleSoft merger days of 2004, when it still […]

Oracle President Charles Phillips had to admit: Theres a good dose of “nyah-nyah” in the companys recently announced move to pounce on Retek, the retail technology vendor that SAP intended to swallow. As it is, Oracle Corp. owns just under 10 percent of Retek Inc., the retail software developer that Oracle seeks to acquire for […]

Software AG on Wednesday announced an update to its Enterprise Information Integrator tool that it claims makes it the first globally available product to use Semantic Web technology. The Semantic Web is a new Web paradigm that provides a common framework for data to be shared and reused across applications, enterprises and community boundaries. Its […]

Oracle on Monday announced general availability of Oracle Business Intelligence 10g, a stand-alone set of BI analytical tools to tackle query, application development, reporting and analysis, and data integration and management. BI 10g packages Oracle Corp.s Discoverer dashboard query tool; Spreadsheet Add-In, which provides direct access to Oracle OLAP from within Microsoft Corp. Excel spreadsheets; […]

The 2004 worldwide market for RDBMS software grew by 12 percent to $15 billion, according to IDC—a healthy enough gain, if you dont count the fact that U.S. vendors incomes were inflated by the U.S. dollars shrinkage, particularly with regards to the euro. Regardless of the dollars doleful year, the database market was bolstered as […]

Post-merger, Oracle Corp. has PeopleSoft customers in the palm of its hand—or does it? Recent research from The Yankee Group shows that a sizable portion of PeopleSoft organizations report that theyre inclined to bail on the software following the merger—particularly those who use CRM (customer relationship management) products from PeopleSoft. Out of 162 PeopleSoft customers […]

Microsoft Corp. on Thursday released the third SQL Server 2005 Community Technology Preview, an incremental release that is most notable for its advanced reporting functionality. The latest CTP is yet another baby step toward the much-anticipated and greatly delayed next-generation SQL Server database. CTPs are not considered to be on par with beta releases in […]

Sources in the Bush administration have said that ex-Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina is in the running to become the next World Bank president, according to The Financial Times. Fiorina is in competition with a host of candidates, the foremost of which is Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense, the Bush administration source told The […]

When you take a look at Microsofts newly unveiled pricing and packaging details for SQL Server 2005, it seems at first blush that Microsoft is seriously courting low-end users, what with the introduction of a stripped-down, lower-cost but still enterprise-level version of SQL Server—its new Workgroup edition. But when you peel off the cover and […]

Facing ever-stiffer competition in the database price wars, Microsoft Corp. is introducing an edition of its upcoming SQL Server 2005 upgrade that will provide an easier step between free and not free than it now does with SQL Server 2000. Microsoft plans to announce on Thursday SQL Server 2005 Workgroup Edition, a product that sits […]

Project Fusion: Its supposed to glue together PeopleSoft Inc., J.D. Edwards & Co., and Oracle Corp. business applications. Its supposed to soothe the frazzled nerves of PeopleSoft and JDE users whove been scared silly that theyll be forced to emigrate onto Oracle systems. Its supposed to tie it all together with a data-hub bow to […]