A number of people who worked on the Drizzle project have gone to the cloud infrastructure vendor
A number of former Sun Microsystems employees who worked on Drizzle, an offshoot of the MySQL open-source database, have ended up at cloud infrastructure provider Rackspace, where they will continue their efforts, developer Jay Pipes wrote in a blog post Monday.
Hopes open source technology can further boost improving Twitter uptime record
Ryan King, an engineer at Twitter, today told the blog MyNoSQL that the social networking company plans to move from MySQL to the Cassandra database for what he called its resilience, scalability and large community of open-source developers.
InfoSphere Business Information Monitor tracks how well data moves from databases to business intelligence reports
Next month, IBM will release a beta version of a software application designed to keep track of how information flows across different systems, sending alerts when source data has been altered or isn't properly ingested into some target system or report.
Sybase's flagship database can now run entirely within memory
The new version of Sybase's flagship database system software, released Wednesday, will be the first version that can be run entirely within working memory.
There are no conditions attached, but Oracle has pledged to protect MySQL for five years
The European Commission granted Oracle an unconditional approval to take over Sun Microsystems on Thursday, following a controversial and drawn out examination of the deal.The deal still awaits approval in other jurisdictions, including Russia and China, but approval in the European Union is a big step forward for a deal hailed by some as transformational for the entire software industry, and by others as the killer of one of the most successful open source programs in the world, the MySQL database.
Oracle's ten promises to the European Commission will expire five years after the deal is completed, the company said
Oracle's latest commitments designed to address the European Commission's concerns regarding its acquisition of Sun Microsystems and the MySQL database are paper thin, and even if they were confirmed they wouldn't safeguard MySQL's future, said Florian Mueller, an outspoken critic of the deal, on Monday.
The two companies will work to prove that SQL Server can handle the biggest workloads
Microsoft and Swiss banking systems provider Temenos have joined forces to push SQL Server in the banking sector, the companies said on Thursday.
Analyst: Deal could spur roll up in the database activity monitoring space
IBM has acquired database security vendor Guardium, it said Monday, confirming earlier reports. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Data warehousing vendors are offering free, open-source versions that actually pack some heat
Data-warehousing software systems are expensive, but many enterprises have nonetheless been willing to dig deep, betting that analytics will provide new insights into their business and a competitive advantage.
It is rolling out Afaria device management, SQL Anywhere synchronization and a banking platform
Sybase is extending its Afaria mobile-device management platform and database software to the Apple iPhone, taking advantage of new enterprise features in Version 3.1 of the iPhone's software to give IT departments more control and capabilities on the popular handset.
Oracle must be prevented from taking control of MySQL, software activist says
Oracle must be stopped from taking over MySQL, according to Richard Stallman, a developer and prominent activist for free software.
The MySQL database needs a home where there will be no conflicts of interest, he says
Oracle should resolve antitrust concerns over its acquisition of Sun Microsystems by selling open-source database MySQL to a suitable third party, its cofounder and creator Michael "Monty" Widenius said in a blog post on Monday.
Meng accused of wrongfully accessing a company computer
A former research scientist at DuPont USA who is
already facing civil charges for allegedly attempting to steal corporate secrets from the company, has been hit with a federal criminal complaint on the same charges.
Regulator has serious concerns about the deal's impact on competition in the database market.
The European Commission opened an in-depth investigation into Oracle's planned $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Thursday, citing concerns about the deal's effect on competition in the market for databases.
Improvements to the database focus on clustering, storage management and compression
Oracle on Tuesday is launching version 11g Release 2 of its database, about two years after the initial version hit the market.
