Lisa Vaas

So, its late. SQL Server 2005, Yukon, is not going to ship until mid-2005. So what? Who cares? Users are actually downright gleeful that theyre going to get a major new release thats more stable than a two-legged stool. /zimages/3/28571.gifTo read about the release date slippage for Yukon and Whidbey, click here. For me, a […]

A handful of enterprises appealed to the U.S. District Court of Northern California earlier this week to further restrict Oracle Corp.s access to documents obtained by the U.S. Department of Justice in its suit to block Oracles $9.4 billion hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft Inc. The enterprises—the U.S. Department of Defense, Microsoft Corp., SAP AG, […]

Oracles Larry Ellison had good reason to preen over Oracles red-blooded, healthy-as-a-horse financial statement, announced Thursday. Net income for the quarter was up 11 percent over year-ago figures, third-quarter revenues jumped 9 percent, and software license sales were up 12 percent. Ellison points to the companys milestone database upgrade, Oracle Database 10g, as being the […]

The wait for the long-awaited Yukon and Whidbey is going to be longer still, eWEEK.com has learned. Microsoft Corp. Director of Product Management for SQL Server Tom Rizzo confirmed that Microsoft expects to ship both Yukon—Microsofts code name for the next major update of its SQL Server database—and Whidbey—the coming update of Visual Studio—in the […]

The nub of the Oracle-PeopleSoft fight is whether the market for back-office applications will shrink. Thats a vitally important question, and it bears a closer look. Ironically, the Justice Department, in a 17-page civil antitrust lawsuit filed last week in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, used Oracle Co-President Chuck Phillips own words against the […]

Oracle declared a price war on Microsoft when it cut the price of its entry-level database to match that of SQL Server earlier this month. Since then, thereve been compelling reasons put forth by Microsoft (I know: how surprising—not!) and AMR Research to point out all the good reasons why SQL Server fans would rather […]

True, the last time I weighed in on the 20-volume epic Oracle vs. PeopleSoft saga, Larry Ellison et al. had just upped the bid to a healthy $26 per share. The consummation of the deal looked like a shoo-in, barring the DoJs pulling the plug, I wrote. Well, hallelujah and praise be, that did indeed […]

In an effort to make it more secure, Microsoft Corp.s “Yukon” version of its SQL Server database will ship with certain features turned off, according to Microsoft Director of Product Management for SQL Server Tom Rizzo, in Redmond, Wash. Rizzo said that, while its too early to say exactly which features will be turned off, […]

Oracle Corp. last week revealed that a potential security vulnerability has been discovered in its Oracle9i Application Server and Oracle9i Database Server. The vulnerability is within SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) messages whose XML contains carefully constructed DTDs (Data Type Definitions), according to Oracle Technology Networks security alert, which can be viewed here. The alert […]

MySQL ABs open-source database license has long confused ISVs and others who want to support MySQL but arent sure whether they need to purchase a license. To remedy these licensing gray areas, MySQL is beta testing a new VAR program that will be rolled out at its user conference in April, officials said. The program […]