Lisa Vaas

Oracles first monthly rollout of patches threw security researchers into a tizzy Wednesday as they complained of a lack of information on which vulnerabilities had actually been fixed and what Oracle software components had been affected. “Oracles a little tight-lipped on what theyve fixed and what they havent fixed, and they havent described in any […]

Oracle on Tuesday delivered its first-ever monthly rollup of security patches, addressing more than 30 vulnerabilities discovered by Next Generation Security Software Ltd. between January and February, and also tackling more than 20 vulnerabilities that eWEEK.com has learned were recently discovered by Application Security Inc. Oracle Corp. issued notice of the patches late in the […]

At this point in the year, laptop and PC upgrades are clocking in as the top priority for IT budgets, according to research from Forrester Research Inc. Forrester in June surveyed 1,377 North American and European businesses regarding their IT purchasing and spending plans for the rest of the year. During the second quarter, 89 […]

Oracle Corp. has explained its failure to release patches for multiple security flaws, confirming that the release delay is caused by the fact that the company is heading to a monthly patch rollup model. “Oracle is moving to a monthly patch rollup model because we believe a single patch encompassing multiple fixes, on a predictable […]

Oracle Corp. is cracking open its top North American accounts to allow partners to get their share of the very lucrative pie. Rauline Ochs, group vice president of Oracles North America Alliances and Channels, on Tuesday briefed the media about the program, which Oracle has dubbed the “Cover the Subsidiaries” program. The new program will […]

For a company that boasts of an “unbreakable” database, Oracle sure is being lackadaisical about a nasty clump of critical security flaws that Next-Generation Security Software uncovered back in January or February. So far, Oracle has told the media that: a) It knows about the flaws. That means there are no—repeat, no—issues with recreating the […]

Oracle Corp. is in public-relations hot water after weeks of stony silence on its delay in releasing 34 security vulnerabilities patches for flaws it has known about since January or February. “Clearly, its a good thing that theyre getting the patches ready, but it seems to me that Microsoft [Corp.] has gotten a lot of […]

Going by early feedback, the open-sourcing of IBMs Cloudscape Java database is putting the open-source community on cloud nine. Noel Bergman, chief technology officer at DevTech Inc. and an Apache Software Foundation member who serves as a committer on the James [Java Apache Mail Enterprise Server] Project and as vice president of the Apache Incubator, […]

IBM has bequeathed to the open-source movement something it desperately needs: a full-featured, enterprise-ready Java database. The company on Tuesday announced it is releasing its Java-based Cloudscape database to the Apache Software Foundation. The embeddable database, acquired when IBM purchased Informix in 2001, represents a sizable slice—$85 million—of the $1 billion IBM paid for Informix. […]

Computer Associates will announce Wednesday at LinuxWorld what its dubbed its $1 million challenge, eWEEK.com has learned from industry sources. The goal: to get open-source developers to develop tools to easily migrate users off of all of the major relational databases and onto CAs recently open-sourced relational database, Ingres. Mark Barrenechea, executive vice president of […]

Online ticket vendor StubHub Inc. fits the description of a typical company thats running its Oracle database on Linux: Its cutting-edge, it doesnt want to be married to a single hardware vendor, and it expects to scale like mad. “Our companys growing extremely fast,” said CEO Jeff Fluhr, in San Francisco. “Theres blockbuster growth demand […]

Oracle executive vice president Mike Rocha will have a lot to brag about when he gets up to give his LinuxWorld keynote Tuesday in San Francisco. First, the database giant saw its Linux market share blossom in 2003, growing at a rate of 361 percent. The Redwood Shores, Calif., company now controls about 69 percent […]