Matthew Hicks

For IBM fellow Rakesh Agrawal, modern database systems need to take a cue from the medical profession by adopting a trusted relationship between enterprises collecting data and the customers providing it that is similar to the one between physicians and patients. Agrawal, who first stumbled on the idea for a new database design while discussing […]

IBM today announced a new networking chip focused on providing increased performance in a compact design with low power usage. The PowerPRS 64Gu packet routing switch, set to be widely available in October, allows networking gear makers to build high-bandwidth applications in a smaller switch fabric board form factor and to expand to higher aggregate […]

With Microsoft Corp. coming off a major security push and moving headlong into its next major SQL Server release, code-named Yukon, eWEEK Senior Writer Matt Hicks recently sat down with the companys SQL Server Vice President Gordon Mangione at Microsofts Redmond, Wash., offices. Mangione offered both a birds eye view of what to expect in […]

The GNU Project on Wednesday released the first stable version of a freely available software platform for developing and deploying telephony applications such as voice-response systems. Two years in the making, GNU Bayonne Version 1.0 is available under a GNU General Public License for small businesses, large enterprises and commercial carriers wanting an alternative method […]

Built-in security development is at the heart of a delay of a major Microsoft Corp. database upgrade. An upgrade to SQL Server, code-named Yukon, will be delayed from late this year to early next year, said company officials here last week, to build more security features into the database. According to the officials, Microsoft pulled […]

REDMOND,WASH.—Microsoft Corp. is planning a series of new releases for its SQL Server 2000 data management system this year ahead of its next major upgrade due in 2003. These include an accelerated release of the 64-bit version of the SQL Server 2000 database, the general availability of the next release of SQL Servers mobile database […]

Nortel Networks Corp. is planning to cut another 7,000 workers as it continues to struggle to return to profitability in a weakened market for networking equipment. The Brampton, Ontario, company announced this week that it now expects a decline of as much of 10 percent in revenues in its third quarter compared to the second […]

REDMOND, Wash.–Microsoft Corp. this week released a new feature for its SQL Server 2000 database that can generate personalized notifications to a range of devices, including mobile devices. SQL Server 2000 Notification Services, in beta since April and now available for free download, is an application platform built on top of SQL Server that can […]

Oracle Corp. on Tuesday will release a promised pricing and licensing guide that company officials hope will help clear up customer confusion of its policies. The guide, called the Oracle Software Investment Guide, offers about 40 pages of details on licensing and pricing policies and scenarios for Oracles database, application server, development tools and enterprise […]

Two new appliances are taking XML processing and management out of the application server and putting it on the network. Devices from startups DataPower Technology Inc. and Sarvega Inc. are moving the processing into XML-aware networking appliances that can speed the routing and processing of XML data, provide central management, and add security features. DataPower […]

Neocore Inc. in the next release of its native XML database is improving performance, adding new querying capabilities and expanding interface support. Version 2.6 of NeoCore XML Information Management System, known as XMS and slated to be generally available this week, will provide an order-of-magnitude improvement in query-and-store performance and add support for XQuery, the […]

IBM researchers are working on a new database design that takes consumer privacy into account in the way it stores and retrieves information. IBM Fellow Rakesh Agrawal this week is presenting the idea, called a Hippocratic database, at the Very Large Data Base 2002 conference in Hong Kong. The design is based on the Hippocratic […]