Lisa Vaas

As IBMs Dr. Patricia Selinger puts it, if the supply of database administrators were to increase in lockstep with the data thats flowing into database from the Internet, the world would now be populated entirely with DBAs. Whether thats a desirable development is debatable, but for their part, relational DBMS (RDBMS) vendors are tackling the […]

IBM on Monday released the beta of “Stinger,” the next version of its DB2 database. With the move, IBM lobbed yet another volley in the battle over which major enterprise vendor will provide the database of choice for the open-source Linux operating system. In addition, the release also represents strong pushback from Big Blue on […]

Was it hypocritical of Oracle to hook up with the Association for Competitive Technology after hiring private eyes who attempted to paw through ACTs trash amid the Microsoft antitrust trial back in 2000? Of course it was. Check out some of these Ellison quotes compiled by the daily online press review site Netsurf that hearken […]

Microsoft Corp. announced Monday that it has acquired ActiveViews, a small, privately held maker of a business-intelligence platform based in Provo, Utah. The announcement, made at Gartner Business Intelligence Summit 2004 in Chicago, did not include information on how much money traded hands. According to Tom Rizzo, Microsofts director of product management for SQL Server, […]

Its hard not to agree with Dr. DBA when hes so fired up with Oracle Database 10g, telling people the specific time to upgrade to the new database version is, quite simply, “now.” At the opening keynote at the International Oracle Users Group Live 2004 conference up in Toronto on Monday, Vice President of Product […]

One of the biggest stumbling blocks to adopting Oracle Corp.s major new release—Oracle Database 10g—will soon be overcome, as PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle itself and SAP AG ready 10g-certified applications that will be out in the fastest certification release cycle ever for a major Oracle database release. Ken Jacobs, vice president of product strategy for the […]

Reports of possible “super” security exploits have been swirling recently. From the Internet Storm Center at The SANS Institute on Sunday came an unconfirmed report indicating that exploits may target vulnerabilities announced by Microsoft last week. For insights on security coverage around the Web, check out eWEEK.com Security Center Editor Larry Seltzers Weblog. Theres also […]

To help enterprises get a better handle on steering large and complex Oracle Corp. databases, Computer Associates International Inc. has rolled out CA Productivity Pack for Oracle. The Productivity Pack, announced last Tuesday, ties into one common console a set of tools that handle a range of database-management tasks, including modeling, design, administration and performance […]

Open-source use is going strong, in spite of a spate of lawsuits brought by the SCO Group Inc. According to a new report from Forrester Research Inc., a full 60 percent of respondents said theyre currently using or plan to use open-source technology. /zimages/5/73370.gif Forrester surveyed 140 large North American companies on their open-source plans […]

On the last day of MySQL ABs second-annual user conference, eWEEK.coms Database Center Editor Lisa Vaas caught up with MySQL co-founder and chief technology officer Michael “Monty” Widenius to find out whats on the technology roadmap for the open-source database maker. In the interview, Widenius tells us that his vision for the open-source database is […]

Analysts say big database vendors must be feeling the heat from open-source database providers such as MySQL AB, which on Wednesday rolled out its version of database clustering. /zimages/3/28571.gifClick here to read analysts take on the MySQL Cluster announcement. That type of high-end database technology, offered at no cost under the free software/open-source GNU General […]

With Wednesdays release of MySQL ABs MySQL Cluster version of its open-source database, the little Swedish company is beginning to swim in the same pool as the big, enterprise-class database vendors, analysts say. “MySQLs announcement on this clustering [technology] definitely reaffirms their commitment to rolling into the enterprise environment,” said Noel Yuhanna, an analyst with […]