Lisa Vaas

Software licensing is a mess. As systems grow more open to linking with other grids and more apt to be used by users across the globe, resources are being virtualized like mad. Web services use is growing, grid computing is leaping beyond academic and scientific usage to emerge in the enterprise, and multicore processors will […]

Talk America Holdings Inc., a phone and high-speed Internet access provider and an early adopter of Oracle Corp.s 10g technology, has untangled itself from 50 Informix databases down to two Oracle databases running on an RAC cluster—a choice thats jazzed up its querying capabilities and helped it wipe its hands of a data replication mess. […]

Are they lazy? Stupid? Or merely inexperienced? Its baffling that so many database administrators or casual non-DBA downloaders were responsible for leaving weak or default passwords on MySQL databases and thus allowing the MySpooler bot attack against Windows installations of MySQL, which last week peaked at an infection rate of 100 machines per minute. Johannes […]

Many CEOs and chief financial officers are looking to dashboards—the new darlings of business intelligence features—to steer their businesses through rocky and fast-changing terrain, according to a recent study. However, a large portion of businesses are citing cost and lack of resources as reasons not to go for the technology. Riley Research Associates reports that […]

Firebird—an open-source relational database known for sizzling transaction performance—is surging in popularity in the enterprise and heralds growing acceptance overall of open-source databases, according to a recent study. Evans Data Corp.s Winter 2005 Database Development Survey looked at the database preferences of some 406 developers in mostly medium to large enterprises. Of those surveyed, 23 […]

Following SAP AGs pouncing on TomorrowNow Inc., a third-party maintenance provider for PeopleSoft applications, Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison warned that such providers should “be careful” of intellectual property infringement. Analysts said the warning was serious. SAP announced the purchase of PeopleSoft third-party support provider TomorrowNow last week with in-your-face timing: The announcement came a […]

Database maker Sybase Inc. bounced back from a gloomy first half of the year, with customers opting to snap up the host of new products churned out in the companys most productive year ever. “Were very pleased with our results for the year,” said Sybase CEO, Chairman and President John Chen in a statement. “We […]

Oracle Corp. Chairman Jeff Henley is planning to sell more than $25 million worth of his companys stock over a six-month period commencing no sooner than March, the company announced on Monday. As of Monday morning, the stock price for the Redwood Shores, Calif., database company was up 1.2 percent, trading at $13.47. According to […]

Ingrian Networks Inc. has released a version of its encryption appliance software that supports PeopleSoft Inc. applications. Ingrian DataSecure is now capable of encrypting data within PeopleSoft Human Capital Management, CRM (Customer Relationship Management) and Financial applications. That includes column-level encryption of sensitive data such as employees Social Security numbers, salary data and e-mail addresses; […]

During Oracle Corp.s heartfelt and lengthy launch of the combined Oracle-PeopleSoft Inc. company on Tuesday, CEO Larry Ellison posed the upcoming Project Fusion as the product suite that will melt all the goodness from all the combined suites into one Internet standards-based Java platform that should make SAP AG shake in its collective pants. “We […]

The PostgreSQL Global Development group on Wednesday released a version of the open-source database PostgreSQL that features better scalability and performance, more features and, most importantly, that supports Windows. Besides a community of open-source developers, more than a dozen companies chipped in on development for Version 8.0, including Red Hat Inc., Fujitsu, Afilias Ltd., Software […]

As expected, Oracle on Friday started handing out termination notices to PeopleSoft employees—as well as to some of its own workers—as it consolidates the two companies operations in the wake of the $10.3 billion buyout of its enterprise software rival. Oracle Corp. plans to reduce the size of its combined work force to about 50,000 […]