Lisa Vaas

TimesTen Inc. this week will unveil an upgrade to its in-memory database that boasts enhancements in performance, scalability and ease of integration with larger relational DBMSes. Version 5.0 of TimesTen Real-Time Event Processing System, available now, adds support for Intel Corp. Itanium 2-based servers running Red Hat Inc.s Red Hat Linux, officials said. For the […]

During the year he was out of work due to a dearth of consulting work, Boris Galinsky devoted his time not only to a job search but also to educating and haranguing legislators about the reasons so many tech workers are jobless in the first place. “I didnt want to take [the job situation] lying […]

Sybase Inc. on Thursday reported revenues of $181.6 million for the first quarter of 2003, ended March 31, a 14 percent decline in year-ago revenues of $211 million. Pro forma diluted earnings per share also slipped, falling to 17 cents per share, compared with 21 cents per share in the first quarter of 2002. First-quarter […]

Despite an earnings report that showed Sybase Inc. revenues in the first quarter of 2003 fell short of expectations by $20 million, plus an earlier IDC report that showed that the companys role in the RDBMS market is shrinking, President and CEO John Chen told eWEEK that Sybase is doing “tremendously well,” pointing out that […]

Pervasive Software Inc. has acquired data security and auditing technology that it will add to its Pervasive.SQL embedded database, the company announced Tuesday. Pervasive, of Austin, Texas, purchased the database transaction intelligence technology from ThinkNet Inc., a software development company based in Toronto. The ThinkNet technology will give users of Pervasive.SQL the ability to see […]

Microsoft Corp. edged out Hyperion Solutions to nab the leadership position in the $3 billion OLAP market in 2002, according to the latest edition of The OLAP Report. Preliminary figures show that Microsoft, of Redmond, Wash., owned 24.4 percent of the market in 2002, with Hyperion Solutions following close behind with 22.9 percent of the […]

Texas Tech University has found that just as in the corporate world, the excuse of a tight IT budget doesnt cut it when pumped-up student users want high-quality services dished up anytime. The school needed to run a high-availability Web portal at a reasonable cost. The Raiderlink portal would serve Texas Techs large student population, […]

MySQL AB launched its first-ever users conference with a bang when it released source code for Version 5 of its open-source database at the San Jose, Calif., event on Thursday. The Uppsala, Sweden, company considers this major release to be its first serious push into the enterprise market, given the databases new features, which include […]

A roster of third parties is expected to announce support for MySQL ABs open-source database on Friday, the second day of the companys first-ever users conference, including announcements of report-writing tools, backup technology and CRM applications. Blue World Communications Inc. is unveiling at the San Jose, Calif., show Lasso Reporter 6, a tool for creating […]

IBM on Thursday is expected to put on its alphaWorks site a downloadable prototype of the developing XQuery standard for developers and customers to tinker with. The prototype, called XML for Tables, is a kind of language translator that can be incorporated into IBMs DB2 Universal database. It illustrates the use of the XQuery interface […]

Applications ability to pinpoint the location of your favorite coffee shop will become ubiquitous within the next three years, thanks to the rapid growth of spatial capabilities in database management, application server and data access technology, according to a recent report from International Data Corp. The report, titled “Spatial Information Management: Competitive Analysis, 2002,” cited […]

OpenLink Software Inc. on Tuesday released Virtuoso 3, an update of its cross-platform virtual database for SQL, XML and Web services. Virtuoso 3 enables real-time, concurrent access to heterogeneous data sources including ODBC (Open Database Connectivity)/JDBC (Java Database Connectivity)/OLE DB/.Net-accessible databases, XML documents and data-set-oriented Web services—which are Web services capable of returning data. Examples […]