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Microsoft has just signed an agreement with Russia’s Atlas Centre, under the Government Security Program, letting the Russian government study the source code for SQL Server, as well as other Microsoft software. “Access to source codes enables programmers from the Atlas Centre to develop encryption protection for Microsoft products and allows the government agencies, including […]

After the acquisition of Sun, MySQL users were somewhat strapped to obtain support from Oracle. Now, through SkySQL, users can now get support from an alternative source. “I am happy to see that there is now another home for MySQL talent being formed,” said creator of MySQL, Michael “Monty” Widenius about SkySQL, a new company […]

Oracle has now released its Oracle Business Intelligence 11g, a complete suite of products providing business intelligence capabilities from enterprise reporting to scorecards and ad hoc queries. This 11g release includes: Enhanced OLAP analysis allowing access and navigation of hierarchical data in Oracle Essbase and other relational data sources A new application, Oracle Scorecard and […]

A completely re-architected and re-designed Oracle Technology Network site will, on July 19th, now contain content from Sun’s developers.sun.com, java.sun.com, and BigAdmin; giving Java developers, database administrators, developers, system administrators, and architects a diverse and huge technical community to be part of. While there will no doubt be much more content than the normal user […]

Google Android has now been added to the list of mobile platforms supported by MobiForms Sync Server, a solution enabling bi-directional data replication and synchronization with a database server. MobiForms Sync Server supports Oracle, MySQL, DB2, Sybase, SQL Server, among other databases; and is part of the MobiForms Advanced Edition which also provides: Definition of […]

Winner of this year’s Cloud Computing World Series Awards for ‘Best Security Solution’ is Sentrigo, Inc.’s Hedgehog Enterprise database security and compliance solution. “It’s a great honor to be selected as best security solution in the Cloud Computing World Series Awards…” says Sentrigo. “The reality is that the cloud renders most traditional approaches to security […]

More grumbles from Michael “Monty” Widenius over the recent Oracle takeover of Sun Microsystems is in the works. Seems Monty has filed an appeal with the European courts against the decision by the European competition authorities that cleared the merger. While the EU is aware of the appeal they are still unaware of the details […]

Perst, an object-oriented, open source embedded database from McObject, can be used on Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 operating system. APPA Mundi was the first to port the solution and says that WP7 Silverlight developers can already take advantage of the available database, and will be able to include true database management features into their applications.

Due to certain unmet conditions, the expiration date of Sheffield Acquisition Corp.’s cash tender offer for all outstanding shares of Sybase, Inc. common stock has been moved back to 9:00 p.m. New York City time on July 16, 2010. Sheffield is an indirectly wholly-owned subsidiary of SAP, and is offering $65.00 for each share of […]

Sage UK’s new platform, Sage 200 2010, integrates CRM with business intelligence and financial management software to provide new filtering capabilities, role-based workspaces and dashboards along with simplified installation. Sage 200 2010 facilitates decision making by automating processes as well as with its virtualization and browser based support. Says Sage UK, “With its new workspace, […]

NEON offers zPrime for IMS for just $1 USD; making costly IMS workloads eligible for processing on IBM SPs. With zPrime 2.1, more than 90 percent of most mainframe workloads (IMS, IBM DB2, CICS, TSO/ISPF and batch) are eligible for processing on SPs. Version 2.1 gives mainframe administrators even more control over IBM zIIP (z […]

IBM Premier Business Partner, Cincom Systems has announced that its Synchrony Customer Experience Management solution is now integrated with IBM’s DB2 database. Data compression and performance management capabilities are just two of the benefits arising from this that users of Synchrony will be able to harness. According to Cincom, the validation of Cincom Synchrony on […]