Lisa Vaas

OuterBay Technologies on Monday will release an update to its Application Data Management suite that will feature cross-enterprise application data lifecycle management. With ADM 3.0, the Campbell, Calif., company is promising a unified view of enterprise data from applications including those from Oracle Corp., PeopleSoft Inc. and other major enterprise application vendors. ADM uses a […]

Oracle Corp.s hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft Inc., announced this morning, is already meeting resistance from customers of both companies. The proposed takeover, coupled with PeopleSofts planned acquisition of J.D. Edwards & Co., announced earlier in the week, would create a $5.5 billion ERP (enterprise resource planning) business and take 27 percent of ERP market […]

IBM on Thursday released DB2 Express, a no-click, quiet-as-a-mouse, self-installing version of its DB2 UDB (Universal Database) thats aimed at small to medium-sized businesses. IBM DB2 Universal Database Express Edition for Linux and Windows Version 8.1 ships with 65 tools for automating and simplifying database functions—a boon to small businesses that lack pricey DBA (database […]

Embarcadero Technologies Inc. on Monday will launch DBArtisan Workbench, a package of database management tools for managing complex databases across the enterprise. DBArtisan Workbench combines the San Francisco companys flagship database management software, DBArtisan 7.2, with a gaggle of new Analyst tools to get higher availability, performance and security out of Oracle Corp., Sybase Inc., […]

Open-source database developer MySQL AB is riding high, scoring venture capital wins in a tight-fisted economy, fueled by a recently announced partnership that will result in the companys takeover of development of SAP AGs open-source database. Officials at the Uppsala, Sweden, company on Tuesday reported a $19.5 million Series B round of financing that will […]

Precise Software Solutions Inc. is beefing up Precise/Indepth for SQL Server, its application performance monitoring software for Microsoft Corp. SQL Server databases, the company announced on Wednesday. Precise/Indepth for SQL Server 1.5 features enhanced support for index recommendations, which, along with statistics, are now displayed to the administrator. With the upgrade, users can also more […]

DALLAS—Microsoft Corp., influenced by customer feedback, is delaying the release of the next version of SQL Server database, code-named Yukon, so that it can do the necessary quality assurance and because the Visual Studio .Net team has asked for more time. Yukon was originally slated for a spring 2004 release, but is now expected to […]

Railroads in the 1860s and information technology in the 1990s: In their heydays, their growth fueled tremendous economic expansion. But by the end of their boom eras, both industries began crumbling under overinvestment and overcapacity. Indeed, as a recent Harvard Business Review article by Editor at Large Nicholas Carr reports, due to technology commoditization, “IT […]

IT departments under pressure to keep costs down welcome a move by Sun Microsystems Inc. and Oracle Corp. to lower the cost of deploying the two companies software and systems. Sun, of Santa Clara, Calif., and Oracle, of Redwood Shores, Calif., are tightening their 20-year-long alliance with what officials said will result in a “no […]

Users of IBMs DB2 software can turn to tools from BMC Software Inc. and Quest Software Inc. to manage the enterprise DBMS. BMC, as part of its Project Golden Gate initiative to enable data management in a heterogeneous environment, has added support for IBMs DB2 Universal Database in its SmartDBA performance, administration and recovery tools. […]

Users of Linux databases are drooling over the list of features promised by the forthcoming upgrade to the Linux kernel, Version 2.6. The Linux 2.6 production kernel, expected to be released later this year, will enable Linux to handle big, enterprise-class database applications. New features integrated into the main kernel will spare users the need […]

Syware Inc., maker of mobile database tools, is rolling out software to enable creation of Smartphone database applications. The product, FoneDB, is based on Microsoft Corp. Windows-powered Smartphone software. FoneDB allows mobile operators, wireless content developers and end users to create full-color, data-driven applications for mobile phones without the need for programming. FoneDB applications are […]