Lisa Vaas

If Oracle Corp. keeps molesting PeopleSoft Inc., people will stop buying its products, research shows. Thats because buying patterns correlate to opinion changes—and corporate IT buyers opinions of Oracle have slumped since the Redwood Shores, Calif., company began its aggressive pursuit to take over PeopleSoft, of Pleasanton, Calif., according to the study. The study, Techtel […]

Despite the distraction of its high-profile bid for PeopleSoft Inc., which would bolster Oracle Corp.s enterprise applications business, Oracle officials said the company will continue to enhance its flagship database. “We dont think [the PeopleSoft takeover will impact] the database business in any negative way,” said Oracle Executive Vice President Chuck Phillips. “Nobodys been taken […]

Oracle Corp. is rolling out yet another method to help customers decipher its confusing pricing model. Starting this fall, the database and enterprise applications developer will offer interactive seminars to answer customers questions. The free seminars will be available online, at various conferences and during a road show that will stop at any global location […]

BMC Software Inc., stung after a fiscal quarter that saw earnings plummet and losses skyrocket, will slash its workforce by 13 percent, close facilities and consolidate offices, company executives said when the company announced earnings on Monday. The Houston-based database management tool maker reported first-quarter fiscal 2004 earnings of $6.6 million, or $0.03 per share, […]

Oracle Corp. has dumped the demand that it be given the right to say yea or nay on the PeopleSoft Inc. and J.D. Edwards & Co. merger, the company announced on Thursday. The Redwood Shores, Calif., database company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission an amended offer to purchase PeopleSoft. The amended offer drops […]

Both Oracle Corp. and Microsoft Corp. have discovered new vulnerabilities in their databases, the two companies reported. Microsoft on Wednesday issued a cumulative patch for three newly discovered holes. The first of these vulnerabilities, named-pipe hijacking, is the only one that could allow an attacker to gain inappropriate access to data, but its not exploitable […]

Sybase Inc. dragged itself out of its first-quarter slump. On Wednesday the company said that second-quarter 2003 revenues of $192 million—including license fees of $63.9 million—exceeded First Call consensus revenue estimates of $186.5 million. Net income was $14.6 million, with earnings per share of 16 cents. Even though the quarter showed revived business compared with […]

Pervasive Software Inc. on Tuesday rolled out the beta of an update to its embeddable database engine thats bristling with security enhancements. Pervasive.SQL V8 Security comes with a unified security model thats designed to protect critical data across Pervasive.SQL access interfaces, down to the operating system. The release also features enhanced encryption of data as […]

Sybase Inc. is enhancing its appeal to Linux aficionados with the announcement of a Linux Competency Center, a Linux professional services practice and record test results for its Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.5 database running on Linux. Mounting interest in Linux created the need for a center where customers can witness and tinker with enterprise solutions […]

PeopleSoft Inc. customers waiting to see if the acquisition of their biggest technology provider by Oracle Corp. will be successful got some company last week when PeopleSoft closed its own $1.8 billion purchase of J.D. Edwards & Co. PeopleSoft officials, in Pleasanton, Calif., put off public discussion of their plans for integrating their software line […]