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Sybase Offers Free Linux Database

Sybase Inc. this week released Adaptive Server Enterprise Express Edition for Linux, a free version of its enterprise-class database for deployment on Linux systems.Sybase...

Oracle Declares Victory in DOJ Antitrust Fight

The long wait for a decision is over. And Oracle Corp has prevailed. For the moment at least. Judge Vaughn Walker, presiding over the U.S....

IBM Takes Sting Out of Database Management

IBM announced Thursday the general availability of the "Stinger" version of its DB2 Universal Database, which delivers to database administrators a host of new...

Some Pithy Questions on CAs $1 Million Prize for Ingres Migration Tools

Slashdot prepared a list of (unsurprisingly) irreverent questions for CAs Sam Greenblatt, senior vice president and chief architect of CAs Linux Technology Group, about...

Lost Hard Drive, Lack of Encryption Leaves Students Open to Identity Theft

California State University has sent letters to some 23,500 students, faculty and staff warning that a lost hard drive containing an unencrypted database could...

Research Firm Reveals Multiple Flaws in DB2

Next Generation Security Software Ltd. has announced Multiple High Risk Vulnerabilities in IBM DB2. IBM has released new "Fixpacks" to address two of the...

Back to School with Database Encryption 101

Database security vulnerability is finally getting a level of attention approaching that which has long been targeted at networks, which is both a good...

Oracle DBAs Brace for Urgent Patch Chores

More than a few database administrators will likely spending at least part of their Labor Day weekend installing the security patches Oracle Corp. released...

Court Revives Oracle Shareholders Action

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—Citing suspicious insider stock sales, public boasting by executives and overly rosy financial forecasts, an appeals court Wednesday reinstated a class action...

How to Realign ERP Apps and Slash Costs

Bill OConnor knew something was wrong when he was summoned to the chief executives office at Zarlink Semiconductor in April 2001. The economic downturn,...