PreviousAutonomy snaps up Interwoven for £560m
News The Cambridge company known for enterprise search believes purchase of the US software maker will strengthen its compliance reach [22 Jan 2009]
HP extends physical and virtual systems management
News New add-on software applications expand capabilities of the company's software for managing physical and virtual environments [16 Jan 2009]
Amazon opens up SimpleDB to the public
News The database component for Amazon's cloud-computing range of services is now out of its private-beta stage, with the company offering limited free usage for the next six months [01 Dec 2008]
IBM extends solidDB database-accelerator tech
News The company has announced that its database acceleration cache software will soon work with Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and Sybase [28 Oct 2008]
Novell buys datacentre-management services firm
News The open-source company will acquire business-services management company Managed Objects for an undisclosed sum, taking it up against competitors including CA and IBM [15 Oct 2008]
CNET Networks UK award winner: RBS
News Financial Services Technology Project of the Year was won by The Royal Bank of Scotland's Shared Product Opportunity Tool [24 Sep 2008]
Industry releases content-management interop spec
News Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, SAP, EMC, Alfresco and OpenText have released the first draft of their Content Management Interoperability Services specification [11 Sep 2008]
Microsoft finalises SQL Server 2008 code
News The company has released the latest version of its database software to manufacturing [07 Aug 2008]
Drizzle project to trim down MySQL
News The database project is aimed at trimming superfluous functionality from MySQL, creating a smaller, faster version [24 Jul 2008]
Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 debuts with Acrobat 9
News The latest version of Acrobat makes it possible to turn multimedia web pages into PDFs, but costs over twice as much in the UK as in the US [25 Jun 2008]
IBM may open source DB2
News The computing company could bring out its database software under an open-source licence [16 Jun 2008]
Greenplum aims for cheaper datawarehousing
News As it launches in the UK, Greenplum focuses on scalability at a low cost and industry-standard hardware to attract users [06 Jun 2008]
SQL Server 2008: a first look
Preview Microsoft has made some big promises for SQL Server 2008, a major update of its enterprise database product. Here's an outline of the key new features. [27 May 2008]
MySQL co-founder clarifies closed-source strategy
News David Axmark stopped in London on Friday to talk to customers about the future of the database under Sun — and to shed light on that closed-source issue [25 Apr 2008]
Adobe moves to allay video security fears
News The company has released content-protection server software to guard against the misuse of video created for its Flash technology [19 Mar 2008]
Embarcadero aims to attract Eclipse SQL developers
News The company has released its PowerSQL database-management product to improve productivity for application developers involved with SQL development [18 Mar 2008]
Microsoft sets out latest tools for web developers
News Microsoft has used its MIX08 event in Las Vegas to announce beta releases of web tools including Internet Explorer 8, Silverlight 2 and Expression Studio 2 products [07 Mar 2008]
Councils struggling with e-archives
News A National Archives survey reveals councils are a long way behind Whitehall in making arrangements for digital-record preservation [04 Mar 2008]
Sybase releases virtualised disk cluster tool
News The storage specialist has introduced a cluster edition of its Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) relational database-management system [20 Feb 2008]
British Museum puts collection online
News The British Museum website has been revamped, seamlessly merging the collection and the shop [15 Feb 2008]
