Lisa Vaas

In a nod to the importance that grid computing will play in the next iteration of its flagship database, Oracle Corp. is calling the update Oracle10G. Oracle10G, which features what the Redwood Shores, Calif., company calls Dynamic Grid Computing, will be unveiled at OracleWorld in September in San Francisco. The first public mention of the […]

If Oracle Corp.s Town Hall meeting on Thursday managed to lull the fears of any PeopleSoft Inc. customers, those customers kept mum about their newfound ease. The uncomforted, however, did not. “[The merger] will cost us money, bottom line,” said a Human Resources systems manager in San Jose, Calif., who requested anonymity. Like other PeopleSoft […]

The travel site Orbitz was back up in the wee hours of Thursday morning after a day-long site outage that the company pinned on Oracle Corp.s RAC (Real Application Clusters) technology. Although no customer data was lost or corrupted, the outage was the “most challenging technical issue weve ever come across” since the companys launch […]

It got downright personal. It was Thursday, at the first of a series of online town hall meetings hosted by Oracle Corp. The intent was to persuade PeopleSoft customers of the database giants sincerity and lack of evil intent in its intended purchase of PeopleSoft. At a meeting attended by over 700 people—excluding Oracle employees, […]

IBM on Wednesday announced second-quarter 2003 diluted earnings of $0.98 per share, a figure that was up 10 percent in constant currency from year-ago figures after excluding incremental charges of $1.1 billion after tax. When not figuring in those charges, the growth rate balloons to 262 percent. Second-quarter revenue totaled $21.6 billion. Income from ongoing […]

Savantis Systems Inc. will support Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS in dbSwitch, its database area network switch, the company will announce in conjunction with LinuxWorld in early August. The dbSwitch appliance, which the San Francisco company launched in March, comprises two Cisco Systems Inc. routers, two Linux servers and five database server agents that gather […]

Oracle Corp. will be hosting a town hall meeting in its ongoing efforts to woo PeopleSoft Inc. customers, Oracle executives confirmed on Tuesday. As reported by eWEEK, the meeting is the first in a series of online events for the enterprise applications customers of PeopleSoft, which Oracle has been waging a pitched battle It will […]

As PeopleSoft Inc. customers continue to sweat out the potential takeover of the company, Oracle Corp. said it wont stop at the Pleasanton, Calif., enterprise software developer to improve its chances against SAP AG and Microsoft Corp. Regardless of what happens to Oracles proposed $6.3 billion hostile bid for PeopleSoft, Oracle chairman and CEO, Larry […]

IBM is launching a mastery exam to help database administrators identify and resolve thorny issues, the company announced last week. The DB2 Problem Determination Mastery Exam will give DBAs the skills to investigate and isolate database issues. IBM officials said DBAs who pass the exam will be equipped to resolve up to 75 percent of […]

Sleepycat Software Inc. last week tossed its open-source database into the XML ring with the release of code for Berkeley DB XML, a native XML database thats built on top of its open-source embedded database, Berkeley DB. Berkeley DB XML offers a single data repository for storage and retrieval of native XML and non-XML data, […]