Lisa Vaas

Oracle Corp. on Tuesday tackled licensing, an issue that has long bedeviled users and that experts say could trip up customer acceptance of the companys recently unveiled 10g grid technology. On Tuesday, the Redwood Shores, Calif., company held the first of a series of pricing workshops that are designed to clarify Oracles intricately knotted software […]

Oracle Corp. customers are of two minds when it comes to the companys plan to help them reduce IT costs with grid computing. While some said they like the many features in the Oracle 10g database and application server platform released at OracleWorld here last week, others said Oracle needs a reality check when it […]

The long-anticipated unveiling of Oracle Corp.s grid computing vision at OracleWorld here last week introduced new requirements for managing databases that DataMirror Corp., Embarcadero Technologies Inc. and Oracle itself aim to fulfill. In addition to the splashy debut of the 10g version of its database, Oracle at the show introduced OEM (Oracle Enterprise Manager) 10g. […]

Edgewood Solutions LLC is aiming to make backup and recovery of Microsoft Corp.s SQL Server databases fast and painless with SQL LiteSpeed 3, the latest version of its database backup tool. SQL LiteSpeed 3, which the company released earlier this month, features a data compression and encryption engine fronted by a graphical console that offers […]

SAN FRANCISCO—On the third day of Oracle Corp.s blockbuster OracleWorld conference and following as many days of deferring all mention of the “P” word, Executive Vice President Chuck Phillips on Wednesday devoted 45 minutes to reiterating the companys determination to swallow PeopleSoft Inc. In a meeting with journalists and analysts here, Phillips scoffed at recent […]

SAN FRANCISCO—The long-anticipated unveiling of Oracle Corp.s grid vision at OracleWorld here Monday was greeted by the rollout of new products to support Oracle databases, including extended data protection from DataMirrors iReflect high-availability software and extended cross-platform support for routine data-management tasks from Embarcadero Technologies Inc.s Job Scheduler. DataMirrors iReflect 1.5 is designed to help […]

SAN FRANCISCO—True to form, Oracle Corp. Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison began his keynote at OracleWorld here on Tuesday by ridiculing Microsoft Corp. Forty years ago, Ellison said, IBM Corp. invented the 360 mainframe. Since then, the race has been on to build bigger and bigger servers. After 40 years, the joke goes, Microsoft Corp. […]

SAN FRANCISCO—No matter what scary thoughts the words “low-cost commodity servers” could create in the minds at big-system behemoth Sun Microsystems Inc., CEO Scott McNealy in his keynote at OracleWorld here on Tuesday said that Sun is solidly entwined with Oracle Corp. in its grid-computing initiative—particularly now that Sun is selling low-cost components anyway. If […]

SAN FRANCISCO—In its splashy debut of the Oracle Database 10G here at OracleWorld, Oracle Corp. on Monday erected two other legs of the stool that supports its version of grid computing: Application Server 10G and Enterprise Manager 10G. First theres the middleware that will feed off data from the next-generation database—Oracle Application Server 10G, aka […]

As Oracle Corp. readies a new version of its namesake database optimized for the complex world of grid computing, it is also working on a hosted Web development environment designed to make developing applications easier. HTML DB, a development environment formerly code-named Project Marvel, will be a standard component of the Oracle 10G database, which […]