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Oracle is not the only database
Blog Those advertisements at airports telling you that, “97 of the Fortune 100 companies use Oracle,” are arguably somewhat misleading - because those 97 companies probably also have some Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, Sybase or MySQL throbbing away in...
[September 1, 2008, 23:20 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Oracle moulds database to grid
Talkback With Oracle 9i Real Application Clusters (RAC), companies string together several relatively low-cost hardware servers to perform the job of larger and more expensive servers. Oracle 9i RAC is limited to running a single application on a cluster of...
About: Oracle moulds database to grid
[August 20, 2003, 0:24]
Oracle database flaws affect virtually all financial transactions
Talkback Errr I though Oracle said they "Unbreakable". Oracle can't even get to first base and admit their products are full of holes. The first step to solving security issues is to admit you have them and put a credible programme in place to resolve them...
About: Oracle database flaws affect virtually all financial transactions
[August 3, 2004, 22:24]
RE: Suchit Singhal New Business Chat
Blog Comment This cooperation began in 1988, with the integration of SAP's R/3 enterprise application suite with Oracle's relational database products. Despite the current SAP partnership with Microsoft, and the increasing integration of SAP applications with...
[February 12, 2009, 5:48 by Suchit]
Oracle buys Sun - but who really wins?
Blog The big news this week this is undoubtedly the $7.4 billion purchase of the troubled server company Sun Microsystems by database specialist Oracle. What's more, Sun's Solaris is a major platform for Oracle's eponymous database, which means that...
[April 23, 2009, 9:20 in Back office by manek]
No welcome for Oracle from Ingres
Blog Database supplier Ingres, an Oracle competitor, has not exactly welcomed the news that its rival has just grown even bigger with the acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Roger Burkhardt, chief executive of Ingres, suggested that open source products...
[April 23, 2009, 9:21 in by Colin Barker]
Oracle to issue Critical Patch Update on Tuesday
Blog Versions of Oracle Database, Secure Backup, TimesTen In-Memory Database, Application Server, E-Business Suite Release, Enterprise Manager Grid Control, WebLogic Server, WebLogic Portal, and PeopleSoft Enterprise HRMS and JD Edwards Tools are all...
[January 12, 2009, 16:37 in News Blog by Tom Espiner]
No need to panic over MySQL
Blog MySQL users are nervous about Oracle's takeover of Sun Microsystems, according to InfoWorld. Oracle's refusal to make a definitive statement on the matter doesn't help, either. No matter what Oracle chooses to do as the copyright holder in the...
[September 16, 2009, 17:37 in Beyond the Code by Jonathan Bennett]
Oracle's free software foray scorned
Talkback Oracle have previously released personal versions of their database, so a limited version is not new. Oracle have contributed to the open source community with the file handling stuff for Linux. 1. Large organisations will always upset someone.
About: Oracle's free software foray scorned
[November 4, 2005, 9:00]
Insights
Talkback As far as the Oracle 10g database product, we are also planning a switch from IBM's DB2 to Oracle's 10g database. Our hope is to improve upon the PeopleSoft support experience by moving more into Oracle's support sweet spot.
About: Oracle honeymooon over for PeopleSoft and JD Edwards
[November 28, 2006, 12:42 by 1000102505]
Heterogeneous surveillance tools for blended data shops
Blog I worked on a feature last month with a DBA who detailed a strategic plan for how to keep Oracle out of the workplace. In the real world there’s not just Oracle (did someone say ‘thank god for that’? I wonder if my anti-Oracle chum would have been...
[March 16, 2009, 7:00 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Oracle's core problem
Talkback Many laugh at Sun's "$1 per CPU per hour" scheme, but with the logging Oracle 10g does on what is actually happening in the database, that is a much more reasonable way to charge for a product. Yes, the old per CPU model doesn't work for multi-core...
About: Oracle's core problem
[February 13, 2005, 2:33]
Where's the upgrade support?
Talkback Whilst it boasts some new functionality enhancements, Oracle appears to have been asleep whilst the analyst community has been discussing the real database market drivers and customer requirements. Nowhere in the announcement does Oracle say how...
About: Changing market for Oracle database debut
[July 12, 2007, 10:37 by kitchong]
Oracle hikes some prices by up to 40pc
Blog The hikes affect a database configuration management pack and processor licences for Oracle's diagnostic and tuning packs, an article in Techworld notes. Oracle has increased the US prices of some of its licences by up to 40 percent, according to...
[July 17, 2009, 16:15 in News Blog by David Meyer]
Schools face software licensing clampdown
Talkback That worked for Oracle. If they hadn't made their Relational Database free to education establishments back in the early 70s, we wouldn't all be living now with the tyranny of the Codd/Date model being the only database model taught in higher...
About: Schools face software licensing clampdown
[July 4, 2006, 15:08]
Oracle promises to patch flaws quickly
Talkback The stupid Oracle behaviour of treating blank strings as NULL breaks Codd's laws of relational databases, and makes life a headache when creating cross database solutions. And while they're at it, can they please add a flag to indiate NULL''.
About: Oracle promises to patch flaws quickly
[August 9, 2004, 11:46]
What to expect from Sybase TechWave 2008
Blog Although Sybase is recognised as a database company, it is arguably less ‘celebrated’ than the likes of Oracle, IBM or even Microsoft for its brand and industry reach. I’m probably going because Sybase is one of the only database companies out...
[August 4, 2008, 18:51 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Microsoft adds IP indemnity to Linux fight
Talkback Microsoft licensed Database/Datawarehouse technology from Timeline Inc, but unlike Oracle and other database vendors, Microsoft chose a license that did not grant Microsoft's customers the right to fully use that technology.http://www.theregister...
About: Microsoft adds IP indemnity to Linux fight
[November 10, 2004, 9:13]
HP wants your data
Blog HP doesn't want to admit that the Oracle-Sun tie-up could have adverse effects on the sales of hardware to underpin Oracle's eponymous database. HP does face some formidable competition in the shape, inter alia, of Oracle and IBM, so while it won't...
[May 15, 2009, 17:05 in Uptime by manek]
NoSQL and the monster mutation
Blog To take the most extreme case - could Google have prospered, or even worked, had it been designed to run on top of Oracle? Very smart people with big ideas are keen to find ways to store and manipulate data that don't rely on the old relational...
[July 3, 2009, 7:45 in News Blog by Rupert Goodwins]
