Database management systems
The EU claims to be the friend of open source. But insisting on a spin-off of MySQL benefits no one -- except a tiny European software maker afraid to compete with Oracle... more
The revised productivity suite brings interface tweaks, useful desktop innovations, and integration with minimalist Web apps... more
Companies will be able to define, enforce policies controlling who can see what data
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A quick tour of InfoWorld's top picks for 2009's most significant up-and-coming technologies for business... more
Someone will surely benefit if the deal falls through, but it won't be MySQL customers... more
The Commission's statement of objections focuses on its concerns about Oracle owning the open-source MySQL database... more
GE Healthcare-hosted system gives CDC access to medical data from 14 million patients
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Announce new Business Insight Advantage program ... more
The company announced the Datacenter edition of the server, for scaling up online transaction processing, and the Parallel Data Warehouse version, which can support hundreds of terabytes of data
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Senior U.S. politicians are said to be willing to wade in to secure the takeover if European regulators issue a statement of objections to the merger... more
Microsoft says the new version's preview edition will be feature-complete... more
The new system co-locates applications inside the database for faster performance... more
Observers say that Oracle's acquisition of MySQL will not be damaging to MySQL itself and question the motives of some detractors... more
Investment in the open source database vendor is a sign Red Hat may be worried about the implications of Oracle's coming takeover of MySQL
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Thousands already thought to be recorded on the system... more
Europe's competition commissioner says Oracle has failed to help address its concerns... more
Business intelligence vendor says IBM's and Oracle's technologies remain fundamentally unsuited for high-performance analytics
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