Lisa Vaas

The Oracle-IBM feud over Linux will ratchet a notch higher at LinuxWorld next week, what with the lethal anti-IBM weaponry Mike Rocha will be packing. When the Oracle executive vice president takes the stage for his keynote in San Francisco, hell point to Oracles whopping 361 percent Linux RDBMS market growth in 2003, according to […]

Computer Associates Inc. will spring its Ingres R3 enterprise database on the open-source world next week at LinuxWorld, company officials have confirmed. The Islandia, N.Y., company first unveiled plans to open-source Ingres in May. At the time, company officials had yet to determine what, exactly, would be open-sourced. That uncertainty is gone, and the list […]

Oracle Corp. has finally begun to file down the teeth of its rambunctious direct sales force. On Monday, the Redwood Shores, Calif., database behemoth began the process of releasing its first-ever set of guidelines to instruct its sales staff in North America on how to play nice with partners, including channels, ISVs, resellers, integrators and […]

Guardium Inc., a maker of relational database security software, is putting new assessment, access policy control, auditing and regulatory compliance applications into an update, the company plans to announce Monday. SQL Guard Security Suite is designed to offer real-time, continuous protection of databases. The three new applications are SQL HealthGuard, SQL PolicyGuard and SQL AuditGuard. […]

The long-awaited second beta of the very long-awaited update to Microsoft Corp.s SQL Server enterprise database is out. But analysts say Microsoft still has a lot of explaining to do. “Some enterprises and ISVs have started to link the delays in the product line with the Longhorn and the SQL Server [2005] and the Service […]

Emic Networks is unleashing an update to its MySQL database and Apache server clustering middleware that brings Java-based servers into the picture, the company will announce at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, on Aug. 2 in San Francisco. Emic Application Cluster 2.5 will support JBoss Inc.s JBoss application server, thus enabling customers to cluster Java-based servers […]

Novell Inc. and Oracle Corp., both leaders in the identity-management space, on Wednesday rolled out technology blueprints for products that are compliant with Liberty Alliance standards for identity management. Oracle announced at the Catalyst Conference North America, in San Diego, that it will update its Oracle Identity Management (OIM) infrastructure to include expanded federated identity […]

The Liberty Alliance announced on Monday that it has signed up the worlds biggest chip maker—Intel Corp.—and its database king, Oracle Corp. The Liberty Alliance is a global consortium devoted to developing an open, federated identity standard. The idea is to offer businesses, governments, employees and consumers a secure and convenient way to store personal […]

Thanks to Dell and HP, the world got a little cleaner this week. Both computer makers this week announced programs in which they will be recycling consumers PCs for free. HP has teamed up with Office Depot to offer consumers the ability to drop off unwanted electronics at any of Office Depots more than 850 […]

The most recent of a spate of Internet Explorer crash and burns is drawing the user reaction, “So, what else is new?” “At what point do we need to shift the focus here and start posting Slashdot stories when they find some code in IE that actually works?” This post, by D-Cypell, was the first […]

Oracle 10g recently went under eWEEK Labs microscope and came out with flying colors, earning an Analysts Choice recommendation for its ability to take workload off the shoulders of DBAs. Thats no surprise. True, as Technical Analyst Michael Caton and Technology Editor Peter Coffee write in their wrap-up of the 10g tests, prospective users are […]

When Judge Vaughn Walker said last week that he was still fuzzy on the meaning of terms that have been bandied about quite a bit already in the trial against Oracles merger with PeopleSoft, both Oracle and many antitrust experts quoted in the media leapt to the conclusions that a) the DOJ had simply made […]