Lisa Vaas

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced two new business intelligence accelerators geared toward easing access to data and speeding scorecard creation. The first, Microsoft Office Business Scorecards Accelerator, is a Web-based application designed to simplify the collection and measurement of performance metrics. According to Tom Rizzo, director of product management for SQL Server at the Redmond, […]

Imagine youre a little open-source database company from Sweden named MySQL. Things are going pretty good for you. Instead of competing directly with the RDBMS overlords, any of whom could squash you like a bug in terms of product features or market share, youre pushing the idea of lean, mean commodity databases that can do […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to announce on Tuesday that it will certify, support and jointly sell MySQL ABs open-source database and JBoss applications server on its server hardware. This is the latest in a string of open-source “firsts” HP is claiming. For example, it follows the recent announcement of the companys Linux Reference Architectures, which HP […]

I loved the “May Day! May Day!” ad IBM took out in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times last Friday and earlier this week. In the ad, here in PDF form, IBM offers to “rescue” Oracle users from voracious Oracle sales reps as Oracle nears the end of its fiscal year. The […]

Microsofts spark plugs must be sizzling with pride. Now Redmond is claiming to be building the “Ferrari” of database encryption, compared with archrivals Oracle Corp. and IBM, whose supposedly pokey database security Microsoft Director of Product Management for SQL Server Tom Rizzo calls the “Hyundais” of encryption. What Microsoft is crowing about, of course, is […]

After Computer Associates International announced Monday at its annual CAWorld user conference in Las Vegas that it is open-sourcing its Ingres Enterprise Relational Database, early user feedback boiled down to one puzzled question: “Open-sourcing what?” “Ingres [covers] a pretty wide spectrum,” said Jason Schmidt, a senior consultant at Comprehensive Consulting Solutions Inc., in Clinton, Ohio. […]

Critical flaws have been found in two open-source applications: Concurrent Versions System (CVS), a popular open-source application within which many developers store code, and Subversion, which was built to be a compelling replacement for CVS in the open-source community. Stefan Esser, the security researcher who discovered the flaws, released advisories Wednesday recommending that the applications […]

When Oracle on Friday slashed the pile of money its willing to hand over in its hostile takeover of PeopleSoft, bringing the offer down nearly 20 percent to $21 per share, some in the press called it a “surprise move.” Surprising, no. One more sign that the takeover is doomed, yes. Its unsurprising, of course, […]

Oracle Corp. on Tuesday released the witness list it filed earlier in the day with the U.S. District Court in the U.S. Department of Justices antitrust case against Oracles hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft Inc. The list, which consists of 25 names, includes PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway, whose testimony Oracle estimates will consume a whopping […]

Colligo Networks on Monday announced a plug-in that will support IBMs Workplace Client Technology, Micro Edition—also known as Workplace Micro Environment (WCTME) Version 5.7—which IBM also announced Monday. Colligos plug-in is designed to enable secure, private database replication and peer-to-peer messaging. The plug-in, named Colligo Enterprise Edition, is slated for fourth-quarter release. According to Barry […]

NEW YORK—At the heart of IBMs new middleware-based software model ticks an embedded database IBM picked up in its 2001 acquisition of Informix Software, the database side of Informix Corp. According to IBM executives, the 100 percent Java database, named Cloudscape, will ensure zero administration burden, a small footprint of 2MB or less, and portability […]

Updating databases isnt minor surgery. From what I hear, its nowhere near as traumatic as updating an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, which can take months of patching and testing patches and testing the patches upon which the patches rely. But still, as evidenced by the many users who said “fine by me” when Microsoft […]