Lisa Vaas

Pervasive Software Inc. is releasing an extension for Pervasive.SQL—its embedded database—that will connect to remote Linux-based devices such as desktops, point-of-sale systems, set-top boxes and medical equipment. Remote Data Requester for Linux is now available as a free download from the companys site According to company officials, more than 60 percent of recently surveyed customers […]

IT salaries downward spiral has slowed as demand for IT pros has stabilized, according to a new report released this week from Janco Associates Inc., a Park City, Utah, management consultancy that focuses on IT. The report, “2003 Mid-Year Information Technology Compensation Study,” found that the mean salary for all positions surveyed in large enterprises […]

PeopleSoft Inc.s board of directors Thursday announced that it is recommending that stockholders reject Oracle Corp.s hostile takeover bid. At the same time, financial analysts are frowning on Oracles attempt to gobble up PeopleSoft, with Moodys Investors Services changing its ratings outlook for the database giant to negative. Oracle, of Redwood Shores, Calif., late last […]

Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison kept up the hype on the companys pursuit of PeopleSoft Inc. during the database behemoths fourth-quarter 2003 earnings report Thursday, saying that the only difference between Oracles offer and an earlier plan to merge the two companies is that Oracles plan wouldnt feature PeopleSoft President and CEO Craig Conway in […]

Now that Oracle Corp.s initial $16-per-share bid for PeopleSoft Inc. has been curtly dismissed by PeopleSofts board of directors, some financial analysts are estimating that not only will the takeover be successful—eventually—but that the final sale price could hit as high as $26 per share. Trip Chowdhry, senior software analyst for FTN Midwest Research Securities […]

PeopleSoft Inc. has ditched its plans to go to court to block Oracle Corp.s takeover bid, Oracle officials said in a release late Tuesday. According to the release, PeopleSoft had planned to appear in court on Tuesday but contacted Oracle legal counsel to say they would not. PeopleSoft officials declined to comment. This is contrary […]

IBMs Tivoli Risk Manager now automatically monitors and protects all the big databases from security threats, malicious users and other vulnerabilities, the company announced Tuesday. Tivoli Risk Manager 4.1 now supports IBMs own DB2 Universal Database, Oracle Corp.s 8i and 9i, and Microsoft Corp.s SQL Server 2000. The software is part of IBMs push to […]

Microsoft Corp. will extend the distributed capabilities of its SQL Server 2000 database to over 50 popular, proprietary databases and packaged applications, such as SAP R/3, SAP BW, J.D. Edwards, Siebel and PeopleSoft. The Redmond, Wash., company will accomplish this by hooking up with iWay Software, the duo announced on Tuesday. iWay, an Information Builders […]

Oracle Corp. and IBM on Tuesday announced a new Java Specification Request to define a Java API for invocations of queries written in XQuery, the XML querying language. XQuery, like the base XML 1.0 standard, is a specification thats still in progress and one that lacks an API for invocation from application environments. In comparison, […]

Sybase is donating data management technology to China to help wage war on SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), the company announced on Monday. The software will go to the China CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) to enable the organization to establish a data analysis system across the countrys medical departments and institutes, thus […]

Sybase Inc. is bringing graphical reporting capabilities to the Mac OS X platform, announcing on Monday that it has integrated Quadbase Systems Inc.s graphic reporting software with its Adaptive Server Enterprise database. EspressReport 3.0.2 is a Java reporting tool that takes real-time data across any platform and turns it into reports on such things as […]

Oracle Corp. Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison early Monday afternoon sent a letter urging PeopleSoft Inc. CEO Craig Conway to avoid jamming up Oracles hostile takeover move with “frivolous litigation.” It has been widely reported that litigation is what Conway has in mind to block Oracles bid—a $5.1 billion cash tender offer that was announced […]