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Starting this week, Intevydis has pledged to reveal details of undisclosed flaws in enterprise applications that include databases. For January 25th the first in this week has to do with yaSSL. Interesting to find this bug out on Intevydis blog as yaSSL is an embedded SSL Libraries for programmers building security functionality into their applications […]

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Coming out of the EU, in reference to the Oracle/Sun/MySQL controversy, officials said that according to their investigation, many database professionals think of PostgreSQL as a viable alternative to MySQL. Those in the PostgreSQL community are now wanting to clarify and build on this investigation. Said Ed Boyajian, president and CEO of EnterpriseDB, the enterprise […]

While the EC finally approved of the Oracle / Sun deal, former MySQL exec Florian Mueller is still complaining and concerned that Oracle will eventually kill MySQL. Mueller has stated that the EC’s opinion about the open-source database PostgreSQL is flawed—contending that PostgreSQL is not a viable alternative, PostgreSQL couldn’t replace MySQL in the marketplace, […]

Schema Compare for SQL Server 2.0 has been released for public availability. Designed to perform comparison tasks, analyze schema differences at a glance, and synchronize those differences—saving time and effort. This new version brings additional capabilities to enable users to more effectively compare databases and migrate changes across different SQL Server version quickly. Additional highlights […]

If you don’t mind ebooks, I love them as I don’t have to lug around a book and I can cut and paste from them, FreeDB2.com has one you might want to pick up. Getting Started with DB2 Express-C 9.7 is 301 pages on DB2 Express-C written by experts: Raul Chong, Rav Ahuja and Ian […]

While I’m wondering if the internet has enough bandwidth to handle this one, Larry Ellison, along with Oracle and Sun executives, will be hosting a live event for customers, partners, press and analysts on January 27, 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM PT, at its headquarters in Redwood Shores, California to outline the strategy for the […]

Oracle has announced today that it has received regulatory approval from the European Commission for its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Next on the plate, where Oracle expects unconditional approval as well, is China and Russia—hopefully closing this transaction shortly and moving on with this one.

Oracle has been around long enough that it is just plain fun to sometimes sit back and watch the company—reminiscing over what has gone by over the years. Baseline has done that for us—putting together 40 interesting quick facts about Oracle. For instance, did you know that after the company ported the Oracle RDBMS for […]

Everyone is talking about the cloud and Microsoft has put up a TCO and ROI calculator for the Windows Azure Platform. Available in both online and offline form you can play with and measure the savings in development and migrating to the Azure platform—providing you with a report that gives estimated line item costs for […]

While SQL Server 2008 R2 has been available in a Community Technology Preview version for about six months and downloaded over 150,000 times, the launch now will be sometime by May 2010. This version has introduce users to Master Data Services and StreamInsight technologies as well as introducing many managed self-service BI features. No pricing […]

EnterpriseDB has announced that Genscape, a provider of real-time power and natural gas supply information for the energy market, has selected Postgres Plus Advanced Server as their database for the collection of proprietary and public data. Reasons for the selection of Postgres were sited as: its ability to handle a high-transaction environment its compatibility with […]