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LongJump launches 'database as a service' software
News The application developer LongJump has extended the field of companies offering core applications on the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model with the launch of a database system. It is the latest company to join the small but growing range of...
[January 8, 2008, 16:11]
Oracle software 'riddled with security holes'
News A UK company has reportedly discovered over 30 vulnerabilities in current and previous versions of Oracle's database applications. Others relate to the PL-SQL language, which is used by other applications to send commands to the database.
[August 3, 2004, 11:35]
Microsoft releases anti-Slammer tools
News Microsoft has released early versions of database security applications in reaction to the Slammer worm that wreaked havoc on the Internet last week. SQL Server Desktop Engine 2000 is used by Microsoft and third-party software developers as a...
[February 6, 2003, 15:02]
IBM's latest DB2 woos Oracle customers
News IBM on Wednesday released the latest version of its database management system DB2, version 9.7, with new features that include the ability for the database to run applications written for Oracle and other platforms.
[April 23, 2009, 17:21]
Oracle hints at Fusion future
News With its Fusion Middleware and database offerings providing the core to its technology stack, Oracle is busy building branches to its Fusion strategy with enterprise software applications, Oracle president Charles Phillips told users at the...
[October 23, 2006, 8:45]
Oracle Applications vulnerable to Web attack
News Oracle Corporation has announced a security flaw in Oracle Applications 11i that allows an attacker to carry out database functions through a company's Web site. Oracle Applications, also called Oracle E-business suite, is a set of applications and...
[June 10, 2004, 14:25]
Oracle opens arms to Mozilla
News Oracle is working on a project to let Mozilla's open-source desktop software work better with Oracle's business applications, in the latest move by the database giant to promote open-source software. Oracle has been an open-source software...
[January 19, 2004, 8:30]
SAP forms software partnership with Sybase
News Software maker SAP said on Monday that it has partnered with Sybase to use the company's database management software with its business applications. The deal is seen as a blow for Microsoft, which has been the primary database supplier for SAP's...
[November 17, 2003, 15:40]
Oracle releases database for Itanium
News Oracle on Monday released a version of its database management software designed for Intel's Itanium processor--a move crucial to the chip's success, according to hardware executives and analysts. And database software, in particular, is vital to...
[December 4, 2001, 9:34]
Oracle delivers solid third quarter
News The applications and database giant reported net income of $1.33bn (£915m), or 26 cents a share, on revenue of $5.45bn, up slightly from the $5.35bn a year ago. As far as topics go, executives focused on middleware (BEA contributed $140m in third...
[March 19, 2009, 14:47]
Drizzle project to trim down MySQL
News Brian Aker, MySQL's director of architecture, has unveiled Drizzle, a project to create a trimmed-down, faster version of the database system aimed at web-based applications and cloud components. According to the Drizzle FAQ, the database will be...
[July 24, 2008, 11:01]
Open source picks some new fights
News Individual open-source database and other applications are already popular. The package includes portal and database software, and an application server. With a suite called Joe, the company sells services for the Geronimo Java application server...
[November 22, 2004, 14:45]
Oracle signs up to Microsoft developer scheme
News The software download will make it easier to write Windows-based applications that access data stored in an Oracle database, said Prem Kumar, a vice president in Oracle's server technology division. The software download will make that process...
[May 21, 2004, 8:30]
Oracle admins admonished over security
News Analyst group Gartner has warned administrators to be "more aggressive" when protecting their Oracle applications because they are not getting enough help from the database giant. Gartner published an advisory on its Web site just days after Oracle...
[January 24, 2006, 9:10]
Ingres, Red Hat team on developer stack
News This allows the development of Java applications and provides the middleware and database software to support those applications, Ingres said in its announcement on Wednesday. Database vendor Ingres has teamed up with Red Hat to offer an open...
[May 29, 2009, 12:03]
Users debate Oracle's claims about 11i
News For months, database software giant Oracle has been touting the newest version of its Oracle Applications business software, dubbed release 11i, as a one-size-fits-all package for managing a company's marketing efforts, sales force, manufacturing...
[March 20, 2001, 7:58]
Oracle makes open source database buy
News The database giant said Sleepycat's open source Berkeley DB will complement Oracle's existing line of proprietary databases for embedding within applications. Unlike Oracle's flagship Oracle 10g database, Sleepycat's Berkeley DB is intended to be...
[February 14, 2006, 15:35]
Sybase makes XcelleNet purchase
News Database specialist Sybase announced on Friday a $95m (£52m) buyout of data management applications maker XcelleNet, furthering its thrust into the market for software tools used in mobile devices. Sybase also has released a package of Web...
[April 5, 2004, 12:05]
The software contrarian
News During the course of a CNET News.com editorial roundtable, Chen weighed in on a variety of topics from Oracle's hostile bid for PeopleSoft -- a partner and supplier of business applications to Sybase -- to the day when database vendors eventually...
[July 29, 2003, 10:15]
Oracle wants to curtail Microsoft advance
News On top of targeting smaller organisations with its database, the company has designed Oracle 10g to be able to handle millions of terabytes of data, or exabytes, for extremely large data warehousing applications.
[November 7, 2003, 11:05]
