Database Software and DB Hardware - News, Trends and Analysis

Ellisons War Perplexes Some

Renee Boucher Ferguson | August 06, 2001

Oracle's all-encompassing software suite aimed at ending customization

Duo Moves to Mobilize Applications

Carmen Nobel | August 06, 2001

According to Oracle Corp. and Sybase Inc., a corporate application is only as good as a mobile employee's ability to access it.

Smaller Innovators Fill Database Niches

eWeek Editors | August 06, 2001

Clustra, TimesTen tackling high-availability, high-speed requirements

Data Underdogs

eWeek Editors | August 06, 2001

Today's open source databases are outmuscled by traditional heavyweights

Watching Over DB2

eWeek Editors | July 23, 2001

Precise Software Solutions Ltd. last week announced a performance management solution for IBM's DB2 UDB.

Quarrel Dogs Open Database Effort

eWeek Editors | July 16, 2001

The effort to push an open source database system into competition with commercial products is anything but friendly, with two companies locked in a fierce battle.

Oracle Takes Services Tack

Renee Boucher Ferguson | July 02, 2001

Company advances software-as-a-service message with suites for small businesses, e-businesses

Yukon Learns a New Lingo

Timothy Dyck | July 02, 2001

At last month's tech-ed conference, Microsoft gave the first public demonstration of the next release of its SQL Server database, code-named Yukon.

If Oracles Last Database Is So Good ...

John Taschek | July 02, 2001

Oracle chief Larry Ellison said the code name for Oracle9i is the "last database," which I concluded to mean that Ellison thought the database market was dead.

Oracle8i Database Found to Have Holes

eWeek Editors | July 02, 2001

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered that could wreak havoc on the most widely used database software on the Internet, Oracle8i, according to security experts.