Lisa Vaas

As Oracles 14,400-strong partner program gears up to swallow the much smaller PeopleSoft partner community, some say Oracles biggest challenge may well be its history of dicey relations with its own partner ecosystem. “Oracle has only recently gotten back into the religion of partner management in a big way,” said Joshua Greenbaum, a principal at […]

The pain will sharpen soon. Oracle is on the brink of laying off thousands of people from PeopleSofts talent pool. Oracle chief financial officer Harry You confessed, during a presentation to investors at a Needham & Co. Growth Conference (PDF file) in New York earlier this week, that the long-anticipated exact number of job cuts […]

In spite of having proclaimed itself a noncompetitor during the U.S. Department of Justices trial against Oracle Corp.s takeover of PeopleSoft Inc., Microsoft Corp. is acting very similar to a competitor, wasting no time in offering migration services and hefty discounts to lure PeopleSoft users into migrating to its business management applications. The company on […]

A long-time ruler in the realm of embedded databases is busting out of that paradigm and eyeing the enterprise database market, with Mondays announcement that Pervasive is packaging up PostgreSQL with drivers and tools in a free package. Its a smart move, and it says a lot about the need for ecosystems of third-party supporting […]

Embedded-database company Pervasive Software Inc. is breaking out of devices and into the mainstream corporate database market with the open-source database PostgreSQL. The Austin, Texas, company on Monday rolled out Pervasive Postgres, which packages Version 8 of the community-maintained open-source database along with a bundle of connectivity drivers and management tools. A preview version of […]

Finally, after 18 bitter months of battle, with 97 percent of outstanding stock in hand, Oracle Corp. on Friday will seal the deal on PeopleSoft Inc. After the expiration of its latest tender offer extension at 8 p.m. EST Thursday, Oracle announced that PeopleSoft stockholders had tendered about 388,679,045 shares, or more than 97 percent […]

You have a Richard Smith of Maple Street who once ripped off your casino. Now, Dick Smith of Maple Avenue wants a job as a cashier. Is there a connection, should you worry, and do you have the software that even suggests a possible link? Thats the type of scenario IBM hopes to address with […]

Two new versions of the most popular open-source databases, MySQL and PostgreSQL, this month will deliver yet more features to make enterprises happy. Marc Fournier, president of PostgreSQL Inc., a support company for PostgreSQL, told eWEEK.com that he was packaging up the last release candidate for PostgreSQL 8.0 Thursday evening. It will ship by next […]

With 89.4 percent of PeopleSoft Inc. shares in its grasp, Oracle Corp. is a hair away from closing its acquisition. It therefore announced late Tuesday evening that it is yet again extending its tender offer, until Thursday at 8 p.m. EDT. The previous offer was set to expire on Tuesday at 8 p.m. EDT. After […]

Oracle Corp. quietly began shipping Oracle Database 10g and Oracle JDeveloper 10g for the Mac OS X Server in late December, an Oracle spokesperson confirmed. Whether anybody cares is another matter, analysts said. Oracle and Apple Computer Inc. executives first began hyping the Mac platform release a year ago, when Apple first announced its Xserve […]

One good bet for a 2005 prediction: Companies are going to get scared into buying something—anything—to help them get a handle on information management. We can thank the fruition of an alphabets soup worth of regulations for that: HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Basel II. Do those sound like old hat? Yesterdays news? The fact […]

Sybase Inc. and Informatica Corp. have fashioned a one-stop shopping package to help mainframe customers who are looking to squeeze real-time data out of their heavy iron and dont want to go broke doing it. The two companies earlier this week announced the joint sales and marketing initiative, named Dynamic Operational Data Store. Dynamic ODS […]