Lisa Vaas

Information-capture vendor Kofax Image Products Inc. has purchased Mohomine Inc., an automated text classification and extraction developer, in a cash transaction, the company announced on Monday. Kofax President Rick Murphy said in a release that Mohomines technology will be used to automate capture of paper-based or electronic unstructured textual data—a task that has required the […]

NetIQ Corp.s self-named management software for Oracle Corp. RDBMS servers now supports Unix, the company announced on Tuesday. Unix support will augment the NetIQ modules current Windows support. The module provides performance reporting, event management and automation from a central console. Its also designed to deliver automated event detection and correction to ensure availability, as […]

The Progress Co. plans to announce OpenEdge, a development platform for creating applications that consume and generate Web services, at its annual users conference next week in Boston. Progress will release OpenEdge as a series of products that will consist of a database layer, an application server to interact with the database, a client piece […]

Its no secret the United States has been hemorrhaging IT jobs. The American Electronics Association reported recently that the United States lost 560,000 high-tech jobs between January 2001 and December 2002. That works out to a 20 percent shrinkage in high-tech manufacturing positions and a 9 percent drop in communications services employment. All in all, […]

MySQL AB announced late last month that it has certified the latest version of its namesake open-source database as production-ready and optimized it for the 64-bit Intel Corp. Itanium 2 processor running Linux. MySQL 4.0 includes features designed to make it more suitable for mission-critical, heavy-load database systems. Its performance can also be optimized as […]

Native XML database developers Ipedo Inc. and Ixiasoft Inc. are readying products that enhance management of XML data. Ipedo next month will make available a data hub that processes XML and non-XML data streamed from Web services, file systems, content management systems, or XML or relational databases. The software, code-named Colorado, is built on the […]

Oracle Corp. and Unisys Corp. have been tapped by a Homeland Security agency to construct a single online spot to report security incidents relating to airlines and other transportation systems and for travelers to check on situations in flux. The companies expect to announce on Monday that they will be installing software for the Transportation […]

The SQL Slammer worm played a major role in a recently reported spike in security incidents during the first three months of 2003. The report, put out by security firm Internet Security Systems Inc., found a 37 percent jump in reported security incidents and confirmed attacks from the fourth quarter of 2002 to the first […]

A quartet of glitches in IBMs DB2 database software tripped up Denmarks largest bank in mid-March, Danske Bank Group reported in a release [pdf] sent out on Thursday. According to the release, the outage had “significant” consequences that involved payments and the trading and settlement of currencies and securities. The outage started March 10 as […]

Relational database heavyweights are pushing the XQuery standard for querying XML documents, with IBM and Microsoft Corp. expected to present a test suite for the standard to the W3C on Friday, and Oracle Corp. recently having posted a prototype of the standard on its site. The test suite IBM and Microsoft will present is considered […]

Startup Vembu Technologies has unveiled an SQL conversion tool thats designed to parse any relational database dialect and automatically convert SQL queries into other SQL dialects. Vembu SwisSQL is an API designed to relieve DBAs (database administrators) of the need to port SQL queries. The idea is to write only one SQL query that can […]

MetaMatrix Inc. and IBM are rolling out enhanced virtual database technologies to untie the knots created when IT tries to connect business users to disparate data sources. MetaMatrix this week will unveil an update to its namesake information integration and data management system that uses virtual database technology to enable two-way transactions across a heterogeneous […]