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Hack at UC Berkeley Potentially Nets 1.4 Million SSNs

Hackers took advantage of a known vulnerability on an unpatched computer to potentially gain access to some 1.4 million names, Social Security numbers, telephone...

More Scalable Tool Slips BI into Enterprise Front Line

Information Builders Inc. last week deepened its commitment to do what just about all BI vendors are now doing: getting business intelligence out to...

Microsoft Preps Previews of SQL Server 2005

Microsoft Corp. on Friday said it will release previews of the next version of SQL Server leading up to the release of the next...

Oracle Warns of Critical Exploits

Critical Oracle Corp. technology vulnerabilities have been publicly exploited, the company advised in a recent security update that urged users to apply the patches...

DOJ Indicts New Cognos Exec

Cognos Inc.s brand-new senior vice president of operations has been indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit multibillion-dollar securities fraud, the business intelligence company...

Some See PeopleSofts End Drawing Near

After 16 months of bloody warfare, PeopleSoft has finally voiced a willingness to sit down and discuss a deal with Oracle—a development that marks...

Siebel Offers Narrowly Focused BI Apps

Enterprise software provider Siebel Systems announced this week that it has begun an initiative to provide global business intelligence to its enterprise clients. The...

Security Alert: DB2 Flaws Surface

Next Generation Security Software has reported multiple vulnerabilities in IBM DB2 Universal Database. Twenty vulnerabilities were reported and designated as "critical" by Next Generation Security...

Analysts: Microsoft Should Pass On Rescuing PeopleSoft

Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer on Monday told the Financial Times newspaper that the company has no intention of stepping in as a white...

Oracle Clears the Conway Hurdle

With PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway canned, Oracle has cleared one of its biggest hurdles to acquiring his former employer, some experts believe. Conway was ousted...