Lisa Vaas

The latest Linux salvo to come from Oracle Corp. will arrive at LinuxWorld in New York on Wednesday. Thats when Dave Dargo, vice president of Oracles Linux Program Office and the Performance Engineering team within the Platform Technologies Division, takes the keynote stage to detail the challenges companies will face as they standardize on Linux […]

Oracle Corp. is ready to extend its “Linux Everywhere” campaign to client systems. In the coming year, the company will enable the Mozilla open-source Web browser to run Oracle applications. Dave Dargo, vice president of Oracles Linux Program Office and the Performance Engineering team within its Platform Technologies Division, told eWEEK.com that Oracle will look […]

The offshoring of IT jobs caused IT salaries to slip for the third quarter in a row, according to new research from Foote Partners LLC, a management consultancy and IT workforce research company. Some of the findings on premium pay for certifications and skills were: Stand-alone applications development skills fell 8.5 percent in 2003. Application […]

In terms of media coverage, open-source databases are having their day in the sun. The most recent tidbit: While the 500+ respondents to Evans Data Corp.s recent Database Development Survey report that Microsofts SQL Server and Access still predominate, MySQL usage by the group surveyed is growing as fast as dandelions in the spring. The […]

A few months back, the travel site Orbitz was grounded for a full day due to a technology snarl that it blamed on Oracles RAC (Real Application Clusters) technology. Considering that RAC is a cornerstone component of Oracles much-heralded and almost-here Oracle Database 10g and the whole grid computing spectacle that it entails, I thought […]

MySQL AB is getting a firmer grasp on 64-bit computing: The company on Tuesday announced that it is porting its open-source database to take advantage of additional OSes running atop Intel Corp.s 64-bit Itanium 2 processor. The current version of MySQL, 4.0, has added support for HP-UX 11.1 v2; Version 4.1 (available as a developer […]

Few can expect any open source-related news to escape its share of both withering scorn and good insight from venues such as Slashdot. This premise held true when a recent, independent study done by Reasoning Inc. claimed that open source database MySQL was some 6 times cleaner than comparable proprietary code. With the comments on […]

MySQL AB last week released an alpha preview of the latest version of its flagship open-source database, MySQL 5.0. The company will announce pricing and release dates when MySQL 5.0 is formally announced in early January, a spokeswoman said. MySQLs site lists potential new features, including stored procedures based on the SQL-99 framework, which is […]

Whether its company flaks, the media or users, everybodys talking about the forthcoming 10g products from Oracle. With Oracle Application Server 10g already out and Oracle Database 10g on the threshold of release, I turned to the International Oracle Users Group to get an update on what early users like and dont like in the […]

What a year. Scarcely a day went by without fun and excitement in Database Land. If we werent racing to patch SQL Server systems (that should have already been patched, in a perfect universe) as fast as Slammer knocked them down, we were witnessing Oracle CEO Larry Ellisons persistent pawing at PeopleSoft. Those two items […]