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Microsoft is warning of active attacks that use a bug in its Snapshot Viewer for Access ActiveX control.
Research firm IDC reports that Oracle holds the database market lead, with a 44% share.
Oracle has scooped up Skywire Software's application business as it aims to beef up its presence in the insurance sector.
(Source: SAS) In March 2007, SAS conducted research to assess current trends in the use of business information -- specifically business intelligence and competency centers -- and the effect on organizational performance. In response to an e-mail invitation to take an online survey, 175 business professionals provided their perspectives on business intelligence in their organizations, representing a diversity of sizes and industry classifications from across the globe.
(Source: SAS) Business Intelligence (BI) as we know it is fast-transitioning into a new world of operational BI. In this next iteration of BI, the tools and solutions are embedded deeply into the fabric of the organization's operational processes and applications, thereby touching an order of magnitude more knowledge workers and influencing thousands of business decisions daily.
(Source: Oracle) An integrated new high availability-disaster recovery solution enhances quality of service while reducing cost and complexity. IDG tests the new Oracle Active Data Guard option to assess its value to DBAs. Plus, access an IDC Executive Brief entitled "Two Birds, One Stone: A Single Approach to Ensure Continuous Database Availability and Better Performance."
The new version of Adobe Systems Inc.'s Live Cycle Enterprise Suite adds Alfresco Software's open source content management tool and an optional PDF generating tool.
IBM said it doesn't plan to open-source its DB2 database, despite a published report quoting a company executive in the U.K. saying that an open-source move might become necessary.
A U.K. Parliament committee has called on government agencies to restrict the creation of large databases holding personal information; and Kenya is forming a committee to create national IT standards.
EnterpriseDB said it has named a senior sales executive from Linux vendor Red Hat as its new CEO.
Microsoft is opening the first of two back-to-back Tech-Ed conferences with a keynote by Chairman Bill Gates and the release of preview versions of several data management tools for developers.
(Source: AMD) In this whitepaper, Scalar explores the opportunity to change the landscape with respect to mission critical databases built around Oracle. Leveraging technologies such as Linux, high-end commodity processing power and Oracle RAC technology to architect, design, build and maintain database infrastructure that delivers maximum availability, reliabilityand performance at a fraction of traditional cost. In addition we attempt to address typical views and ideas with respect to the technology.
Hewlett-Packard onMonday unveiled a new version of its Neoview data warehouse that adds tools to better handle operational workloads.
Bill Gates will walk away from his full-time job at Microsoft at the end of June — meaning that it's now open season on assessing his legacy at the software vendor and within the IT industry.
Mark Hall reports on Sybase's plan to offer analytics on a hardware appliance.
A disk failure in an aging Sun Microsystems server caused the FAA's NOTAM system to crash last week.
This Sun server looks a lot like other 1U systems, but really shines when it comes to database tasks in particular,
InfoWorld's reviewer found.
The petabyte is the new petaflop. Take Yahoo! Inc.'s specially-built data warehouse, which it uses to analyze the behavior of its half a billion Web visitors a month.
The U.K. government is preparing new telecommunications legislation as part of its antiterrorism efforts, and one of the options on the table is a central database that could store information about electronic communications.
A construction firm busts through piles of invoices with pro forma statements issued once a month.
If you want to create a solid relational database that includes the ability to easily share and collaborate, you might want to try one of these four Web-based database services.
If you want to create a solid relational database that includes the ability to easily share and collaborate, you might want to try one of these four Web-based database services.
It's reserving the rights to close the source code and to reserve some features for paying customers, but for now Sun Microsystems appears to have eased off its previously announced and remarkably unpopular plan to charge for more basic functionality.
Coming up for Tibco's ActiveMatrix platform is the ability to manage policies on the WebSphere platform from within the application server as opposed to outside the application server.
Sun Microsystems reported a $34 million loss for its third quarter and said that it plans to cut up to 2,500 jobs, after adding 1,100 workers through its acquisitions of MySQL and Innotek.
Oracle said Tuesday that it has completed its purchase of BEA following the EU's okay of the deal.
Details on a new type of attack that could give an intruder admin-level access privileges on Oracle servers were released Thursday by David Litchfield, the researcher who revealed the vulnerability's existence in February.
(Source: Citrix) Adoption of virtualization is concentrated among large enterprises, while adoption by mid-sized companies has been much slower. For these companies, the cost and complexity of server virtualization solutions has been a barrier.
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Hampered by hard-drive speeds, databases make for a significant bottleneck for Web-based applications or sites. One company has a solution that combines two approaches that each pave a way around the problem.
Marten Mickos, who heads the database group at Sun, said in online posts that while some new features will be offered only to paying MySQL users, the source code for the add-ons may be released under an open-source license.
Sun officials confirmed that new online backup features will be offered to paying MySQL Enterprise users only — a plan that sparked criticism from open-source advocates.
For three years, anyone with a basic knowledge of SQL could submit their own SQL query to pull the data of their choice from the underlying database of an Oklahoma Department of Corrections Web site.
It's about three months later than planned, but execs promise a quality release that's as free of bugs as they can make it.
Among the advances in Version 5.1 are partitioning, events scheduling, row-based replication and disk-based clustering.
Oracle announced new content and e-mail archiving products at the start of the Collaborate 08 user group meeting today.
Oracle will release patches for a slew of products next week, including fixes for two nasty vulnerabilities for its database software.
Computer industry luminary Gordon Bell is leading a Microsoft Research effort to create a system that would help anyone compile a terabyte of their life's memories.
There is some debate over what's the best strategy and timing for getting the deepest pricing concessions from Oracle.
A $10 million cash infusion from companies such as IBM is expected to give EnterpriseDB a new toehold on the market. In particular, IBM's stake is symbolically laden, since Sun, previously a strong supporter of PostgreSQL, purchased competitor MySQL back in January.
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