Lisa Vaas

The latest battle in the war against database piracy took place on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, as the Coalition Against Database Piracy testified before a joint House Judiciary and Energy and Commerce Subcommittee hearing on draft legislation to protect against database thievery. The legislation, named the Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act, is a […]

As Oracle Corp. talks up the flexible computing infrastructure afforded by the grid capabilities of its Oracle 10g database and application server, users are wondering if they are going to be pinched by the companys inflexible licensing policy. Oracle, based in Redwood Shores, Calif., charges for its software by CPU or by named user, but […]

To strengthen the crucial link between storage and databases in grid computing, Network Appliance Inc. and Oracle Corp. are joining forces to beef up storage management features in Oracle Database 10g. NetApp, of Sunnyvale, Calif., announced earlier this month that it will develop technologies to enhance 10gs functionality in data provisioning, high-performance computing and Linux […]

Core to security in Oracle Corp.s upcoming 10g grid technology will be a component called Oracle Internet Directory, an LDAP directory with an Oracle database back-end that leverages the databases scalability, high availability and security features, according to Oracle Chief Security Officer Mary Ann Davidson. In an interview with eWEEK, Davidson said that Oracle Internet […]

Oracle Corp.s move to start its own commercial grid consortium has taken established grid groups completely by surprise. The 4-year-old Global Grid Forum on Friday posted a letter from its chair, Charlie Catlett, in which Catlett said nobody at Oracle has talked with GGF officials about such a consortium and that he doesnt have a […]

The open-source database MySQL will ship as one of the standard databases that go out with Novell Inc.s NetWare 6.5, MySQL AB officials announced last week. NetWare 6.5 will come with a commercially licensed version of MySQL 4.0. Such a license sidesteps the legal skirmishes now surrounding Linux, wherein The SCO Group Inc. has charged […]

Oracle Corp. on Tuesday tackled licensing, an issue that has long bedeviled users and that experts say could trip up customer acceptance of the companys recently unveiled 10g grid technology. On Tuesday, the Redwood Shores, Calif., company held the first of a series of pricing workshops that are designed to clarify Oracles intricately knotted software […]

Oracle Corp. customers are of two minds when it comes to the companys plan to help them reduce IT costs with grid computing. While some said they like the many features in the Oracle 10g database and application server platform released at OracleWorld here last week, others said Oracle needs a reality check when it […]

The long-anticipated unveiling of Oracle Corp.s grid computing vision at OracleWorld here last week introduced new requirements for managing databases that DataMirror Corp., Embarcadero Technologies Inc. and Oracle itself aim to fulfill. In addition to the splashy debut of the 10g version of its database, Oracle at the show introduced OEM (Oracle Enterprise Manager) 10g. […]

Edgewood Solutions LLC is aiming to make backup and recovery of Microsoft Corp.s SQL Server databases fast and painless with SQL LiteSpeed 3, the latest version of its database backup tool. SQL LiteSpeed 3, which the company released earlier this month, features a data compression and encryption engine fronted by a graphical console that offers […]

SAN FRANCISCO—On the third day of Oracle Corp.s blockbuster OracleWorld conference and following as many days of deferring all mention of the “P” word, Executive Vice President Chuck Phillips on Wednesday devoted 45 minutes to reiterating the companys determination to swallow PeopleSoft Inc. In a meeting with journalists and analysts here, Phillips scoffed at recent […]

SAN FRANCISCO—The long-anticipated unveiling of Oracle Corp.s grid vision at OracleWorld here Monday was greeted by the rollout of new products to support Oracle databases, including extended data protection from DataMirrors iReflect high-availability software and extended cross-platform support for routine data-management tasks from Embarcadero Technologies Inc.s Job Scheduler. DataMirrors iReflect 1.5 is designed to help […]