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Sun Stakes Future on Grid Computing

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Sun Microsystems Inc. senior executives hope to put Sun in a dominant position as a low-cost grid computing system provider before IBM...

Clustering Eases Talk Americas Replication Woes

Talk America Holdings Inc., a phone and high-speed Internet access provider and an early adopter of Oracle Corp.s 10g technology, has untangled itself from...

Sun Opening a Global Grid

Sun Microsystems Inc. is ready to unveil its Sun Grid. At its quarterly product rollout on Tuesday, the Santa Clara, Calif., company will announce that...

Downloadable Databases Pose Security Dangers

Are they lazy? Stupid? Or merely inexperienced? Its baffling that so many database administrators or casual non-DBA downloaders were responsible for leaving weak or default...

Study: Dashboards Great for BI—If You Can Afford Them

Many CEOs and chief financial officers are looking to dashboards—the new darlings of business intelligence features—to steer their businesses through rocky and fast-changing terrain,...

MySQL Bot Attack Thwarted

Last weeks sophisticated bot attack against Windows installations of the MySQL database engine has fizzled after DNS (Domain Name System) service authorities shut off...

Enterprises Warming Up to Firebird Open-Source Database

Firebird—an open-source relational database known for sizzling transaction performance—is surging in popularity in the enterprise and heralds growing acceptance overall of open-source databases, according...

MySQL Bot Attacks Windows Systems

Malicious hackers have launched a zero-day bot attack against default Windows installations of the MySQL database engine, infecting vulnerable systems at the rate of...

Oracle Warns SAP to Step Lightly

During Oracles semiannual Analyst Day event Wednesday in New York, company CEO Larry Ellison warned archrival SAP to step lightly when it comes to...

Analysts: Ellison Playing Hard Ball with Intellectual Property

Following SAP AGs pouncing on TomorrowNow Inc., a third-party maintenance provider for PeopleSoft applications, Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison warned that such providers should...