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Oracle Still Sitting on Database-Security Patches

Oracle Corp. is in public-relations hot water after weeks of stony silence on its delay in releasing 34 security vulnerabilities patches for flaws it...

Sybase Database, Tools Scale Up

Sybase Inc. is expanding the capabilities of its relational DBMS and development tools to smooth out application integration bumps and help customers build service-oriented...

Analysts: Continuity Lessons From Blackout, Disasters

Last summers major power blackout proved a wakeup call for IT managers to examine business continuity plans. Analysts say that some have taken advantage...

Oracle Judge Unseals Papers that Buttress Antitrust Verdict

SAN FRANCISCO—U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker Friday made it clear that that he wouldnt hesitate to unseal confidential documents, especially if some of...

CRM Survey: Will Old Problems Sink New Users?

Customer relationship management is becoming a commonplace technology. Soon, two-thirds of all U.S. companies will have deployed a CRM system, according to a recent...

Whats Wrong With RFID?

Beaver Street Fisheries is the prototypical manual-labor shop. Tons of clams, lobster, alligator, octopus and other exotica, from coastal waters in over 50 countries—hard-won...

New Database Tools Buttress Disaster Recovery

Enterprises running multiple databases will soon have new and enhanced administration tools from BMC Software Inc., XOsoft Inc. and Storage Technology Corp. to consider.The...

CA, IBM Databases Join Open-Source Parade

IBM and Computer Associates International Inc. are handing over parts of their respective relational database technologies to the open-source developer community. As a result,...

OpenLinks Virtuoso Has Many Talents

OpenLink Software Inc. calls its Virtuoso 3.5 product a universal server platform, and although this is an apt description in many ways, its not...

Alpha Five Update Builds Better Apps

While it is certainly easy to just accept and run the database application that is sitting on most Windows-based PCs, Alpha Softwares Alpha Five...