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Tool Targets Compliance for SQL Server Databases

Idera has come out with a version of its SQL Server database auditing tool that provides real-time auditing and continuous compliance for organizations dealing...

SAS Unveils Life Science Apps, Updates Forecasting Tool

PHILADELPHIA—At the SAS User Group International Conference here last week, SAS Institute Inc. announced applications for the life sciences industry and previewed a forecasting...

A Peek Inside the Microsoft Whidbey Ship Room

In a nondescript conference room at the heart of Microsoft Corp.s campus here, 35 developers sit shoulder to shoulder and prepare for battle. This is...

Database Integration Better Late than Never

Microsoft Corp.s planned integration of database-oriented programming tools pays belated homage, one might say, to computer scientist Niklaus Wirths famous assertion that "Algorithms plus...

Managed Objects Database Goes Federated with nLayers

Managed Objects on Tuesday will weigh in on the configuration-management database issue when it launches its first Business Service Configuration Management offering. In the debate...

Oracle Plans to Grow, Not Revamp, Retek

Oracle plans few changes to Reteks retail-management application software offerings other than to "globalize them and put them on steroids," said Charles Phillips, Oracle...

Oracle and SAP to Merge? Oh, Please!

Adrenaline is a dangerous drug. It can make otherwise intelligent journalists get downright giddy, throwing logic and common sense right out the window if...

Two-Factor Authentication Could Stem Rising Tide of Identity Theft

Two-factor authentication may well be the key to stemming the onslaught of identity theft now plaguing businesses and consumers—if you can talk customers into...

Lawrie Proves No Match for Siebels Troubles

The sudden resignation Wednesday of Siebel Systems CEO Michael Lawrie is an object lesson for all veteran corporate managers who believe they can turn...

Oracle Patches Database Vulnerabilities

Oracle on Tuesday released its now-quarterly patch update, plugging vulnerabilities in 16 different products and applications, including the first patches for PeopleSoft applications since...