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February 12, 2003 12 Feb'03
Socitm says Oracle deal will be good for councils

The government's new contract with Oracle for the supply of software to public sector bodies represents value for money,...
February 12, 2003 12 Feb'03
Off-the shelf SAP speeds Arco rollout

Safety equipment manufacturer Arco was able to implement data archiving for its ERP system in just a few days, thanks to a new...
February 12, 2003 12 Feb'03
Special report: Oracle AppsWorld

If you were unable to make it to AppsWorld this month you'll have missed the unique clog-wearing, tulip-scented experience of...
February 07, 2003 07 Feb'03
Govt will save millions with Oracle agreement

A three-year government deal with Oracle is expected to save tens of millions of pounds on public-sector IT procurement costs,...

February 05, 2003 05 Feb'03
M&S signs up troubled telco

High street retailer Marks & Spencer has contracted Cable & Wireless to host its new internal datacentre, despite growing fears...
January 27, 2003 27 Jan'03
Users report success with Oracle 11i

Oracle's promise that its business applications could help users slash costs and boost operational efficiency appears to be...
January 24, 2003 24 Jan'03
Oracle extends limited support for 10.7 suite

Oracle is to give users of version 10.7 of its applications suite limited support for another year after the 30 June cut-off date...
January 22, 2003 22 Jan'03
MySQL upgrades open-source database

A version of MySQL open-source database that includes "sub-selects" and other improvements to help enable the database to be used...
January 20, 2003 20 Jan'03
Oracle and EMC extend service offerings

Oracle and EMC will announce two initiatives intended to make life easier for joint customers who use Oracle's database and...
January 16, 2003 16 Jan'03
User group calls on Oracle to improve software quality

The Oracle Application User Group has called on Oracle to improve the quality of its software.

January 03, 2003 03 Jan'03
Sybase hires HP exec to lead infrastructure group

Sybase has appointed a former Hewlett-Packard executive to head a business unit intended to boost its position in the market for...
December 19, 2002 19 Dec'02
Oracle database sales start to rise again

Oracle has reported earnings for its second fiscal quarter that exceeded analysts' estimates, and said that its database software...
December 17, 2002 17 Dec'02
Security holes in MySQL, says German expert

Security holes discovered in the MySQL open-source database and client software could allow an attacker to launch a denial of...
December 17, 2002 17 Dec'02
PeopleSoft releases flurry of enterprise products

Three PeopleSoft products made their debut yesterday, including one for real-time financial data analysis and another for project...
December 13, 2002 13 Dec'02
Alcatel unveils two switches for enterprise LANs

Alcatel has added two switches designed to carry both voice and data traffic to its OmniSwitch product family.
December 11, 2002 11 Dec'02
Microsoft smooths path for datacentre managers

Microsoft has rolled out a set of architectural guidelines to help IT managers build and manage datacentres made up of Windows...
December 09, 2002 09 Dec'02
Hyperion adds data contrasting tools to Essbase

Data analysis software vendor Hyperion Solutions is to develop functionality that will provide a virtual corporate memory to end...
December 05, 2002 05 Dec'02
Oracle unveils apps and hardware bundle for European midmarket

Oracle yesterday unveiled its E-Business Suite Special Edition, a package of enterprise applications targeting mid-sized European...
December 02, 2002 02 Dec'02
Oracle looks to Europe with E-Business Suite

Next week, Oracle is to announce a version of its E-Business Suite of enterprise applications for mid-sized European companies,...
November 29, 2002 29 Nov'02
Oracle raising its game says user group

Customer satisfaction with Oracle products and services has increased significantly during the past year and the recession may be...
November 28, 2002 28 Nov'02
US immigration database loses the plot in search for terrorism suspects

The US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has lost track of nearly half of all foreigners that the US Federeal Bureau...
November 15, 2002 15 Nov'02
Ellison: Users have bought too many databases

IT vendors have consistently failed corporate chief information officers by delivering software that lacks interoperability,...
November 14, 2002 14 Nov'02
OracleWorld: No database upgrades until mid-2003

Oracle's next database release will focus on continued improvements in manageability, increased capacity and spreading clustering...
November 12, 2002 12 Nov'02
Salesforce.com CRM offering goes wireless

Salesforce.com will launch a wireless edition of its online CRM product next week designed to allow users to access customer data...
November 07, 2002 07 Nov'02
UK travel group rolls out Oracle

Travel group TUI Northern Europe, which owns UK chains Thomsons and Lunn Poly, is planning to roll out part of Oracle's...
November 01, 2002 01 Nov'02
Oracle improving relations with US user group

Oracle boosted its presence at the Oracle Applications User Group (OAUG) conference with presentations from several executives,...
October 25, 2002 25 Oct'02
Oracle boosts supply chain offering

Oracle has enhanced the execution, collaboration and intelligence functionalities in its supply chain management solution to...
October 21, 2002 21 Oct'02
New ERP products to target midmarket

Microsoft, Oracle and Baan are readying new enterprise software applications in a bid to capitalise on midmarket demand for...
October 17, 2002 17 Oct'02
Police IT Organisation defends delays to UK firearms database

The Police IT Organisation (Pito) has defended the decision to further delay the introduction of the UK's long-awaited national...
October 15, 2002 15 Oct'02
BT plans £1bn B2B exchange on Oracle

BT has dropped Commerce One in favour of Oracle in a bid to enhance its BT Transact business-to-business e-procurement service.
October 10, 2002 10 Oct'02
UK retailers encouraged to join National Retail Crime Database

UK retailers were last week urged to sign up to the British Retail Consortium's National Retail Crime Database, which is due to...
October 07, 2002 07 Oct'02
BMC plans integrated database tools

BMC Software has outlined a blueprint for delivering within 18 months an integrated set of database management tools designed to...
October 02, 2002 02 Oct'02
Oracle and EMC open service centre

Oracle and EMC have opened a service centre designed to provide support and quicker problem resolution for the companies' shared...
October 01, 2002 01 Oct'02
Cap Gemini and Teradata create CRM platform

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young has partnered with Teradata, a division of NCR, to develop a platform for enterprises to use their own...
September 24, 2002 24 Sep'02
InterSystems adds real-time analysis to database

Software company InterSystems is rolling out a new version of its database that it claims will enable users to run real-time...
September 23, 2002 23 Sep'02
VeriSign tidies records after ICANN rebuke

VeriSign said that it has corrected database inaccuracies flagged by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers...
September 23, 2002 23 Sep'02
MySQL adds transactional support to database

MySQL, maker of the identically named open source database, is adding transactional support to its database.
September 20, 2002 20 Sep'02
National address database launched

The Government has launched a joint programme to develop a national infrastructure of address and map data to underpin government...
September 18, 2002 18 Sep'02
Tough climate mars Oracle results

Oracle yesterday reported first-quarter financial results that were down in both profit and revenue terms from the same period...
September 16, 2002 16 Sep'02
Alpha Software throws down gauntlet to Microsoft

Alpha Software aims to take on Microsoft's Access software with the latest version of its Alpha database, which has automated...
September 05, 2002 05 Sep'02
SAP to offer collaborative data management

Enterprise software vendor SAP plans to develop a new collaborative master data management product that will integrate data from...
September 04, 2002 04 Sep'02
New property database worse than system it aims to replace

A much-hyped land and property database for England and Wales is less accurate than the long-established address file it aims to...
August 30, 2002 30 Aug'02
SAP suite aims to boost company productivity

SAP claims its latest productivity management application will help users share pertinent data rapidly, boost productivity,...
August 20, 2002 20 Aug'02
Oracle stronghold under threat from Microsoft

A new report on the relational database market has ranked Oracle as the leading database vendor, although Microsoft is expected...
August 07, 2002 07 Aug'02
Burglars captured by police data mining kit

A police researcher has used data mining software programmed to analyse historical crime reports to identify the criminals most...
August 07, 2002 07 Aug'02
Dairy firm uses Coda-Intelligence software to boost ERP performance

Associated Co-operative Creameries (ACC) is deploying Coda-Intelligence data mart software as the first stage in a project to...
August 05, 2002 05 Aug'02
Sybase readies test version of portal software

The next version of Sybase's enterprise portal software is set to reach beta testers this month and promises new tools that...
August 02, 2002 02 Aug'02
Biomax launches new human genome database

Biomax Informatics has launched a human genome database that is both automatically and manually annotated.
July 31, 2002 31 Jul'02
Data mining boosts drug research at AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca has seen a marked improvement in the standard of its medical research since implementing data mining software across...
July 24, 2002 24 Jul'02
Aggregation tool is the Lazy way to link disparate databases

Lazy Software has released a data aggregation tool for linking disparate relational databases, writes Eric Doyle.
July 24, 2002 24 Jul'02
Microsoft tool ties Windows to Oracle database

Microsoft has released a tool that will allow Windows developers to build applications more tightly integrated with data stored...
July 22, 2002 22 Jul'02
Sybase posts Q2 profit despite weak sales

Database vendor Sybase posted a profit for its second quarter, largely as a result of cost-cutting measures over the past year.
July 03, 2002 03 Jul'02
Ixiasoft XML partnership eyes broad data access

Awareness of XML (Extensible Markup Language) and the need to use XML databases has grown faster in Europe than in the US, said...
July 01, 2002 01 Jul'02
BMC extends SmartDBA management tool functionality

BMC Software is adding online database reorganisation capabilities to the Space Expert component of its SmartDBA database...
June 28, 2002 28 Jun'02
Microsoft boosts RosettaNet support

Microsoft has bolstered its support for business-to-business data exchange among high-tech companies with the launch of Version...
June 27, 2002 27 Jun'02
Sybase and Sun partner on data management offering

Sybase and Sun Microsystems have teamed up on a system for data-intensive, small and midsized businesses that need...
June 27, 2002 27 Jun'02
SAP to resell Oracle 9i Real Application Clusters

German enterprise software provider SAP will resell and distribute Oracle's Oracle9i Database with Real Application Clusters...
June 26, 2002 26 Jun'02
Oracle expands 9i professional certification

Database software company Oracle has expanded the certification and education program for its 9i database software package across...
June 25, 2002 25 Jun'02
OracleWorld: Compression halves storage costs

Oracle has launched its European OracleWorld event in Copenhagen this week by detailing a new cost saving feature in Release 2 of...
June 20, 2002 20 Jun'02
Bloomberg's new interface signals technology overhaul

Financial data software will be more user-friendly, writes Nick Huber
June 17, 2002 17 Jun'02
SAS upgrade simplifies looks to simplify data analysis tools

SAS Institute has upgraded its flagship data analysis tools that includes a series of new features aimed at improving the...
June 07, 2002 07 Jun'02
IBM beefs up database management line

IBM has announced plans to ship 20 new or upgraded database management tools in a bid to bolster its competitive position in the...
May 29, 2002 29 May'02
Analysts slate new Oracle tools

A forthcoming report from Butler Group has found that the new Oracle 9i Developer Suite, introduced last week, falls short of...
May 27, 2002 27 May'02
Oracle courts sceptical 11i users

Oracle executives visiting last week's spring conference of the independent US-based Oracle Application User Group faced...
May 24, 2002 24 May'02
New 9i Developer focuses on productivity and reporting

Oracle has introduced the latest edition of its 9i Developer Suite, designed to improve developer productivity and business...
May 24, 2002 24 May'02
IDC: Database software market poised for surge

Worldwide sales of relational and object-relational database management systems (RDBMS) are poised to surge following the...
May 16, 2002 16 May'02
CRM firm boosts data mining tools

Seattle customer relationship management software company, Talisma, plans to improve its CRM product, also called Talisma, by...
May 16, 2002 16 May'02
Experts call for independent study of land gazetteer

ADDress data experts have called for an independent study into a national land and property database following concerns that a...
May 09, 2002 09 May'02
Property database is under-used

A national database that was supposed to help end gazumping in the property market is not being used by some of its target...
May 07, 2002 07 May'02
Gartner: IBM steals database crown from Oracle

IBM has dislodged Oracle from the top of the market for database management software, helped along by its billion-dollar purchase...
May 02, 2002 02 May'02
Error fears in property system

IT professionals have warned that a database supposed to help end gazumping in the property market could be riddled with errors.
April 30, 2002 30 Apr'02
Categorisation products tackle content chaos

Documentum and Semio have introduced categorisation technologies designed to bring order to data in portal and content management...
April 24, 2002 24 Apr'02
Co-op datawarehouse looks to save millions

Convenience store chain Co-operative Retail expects to save millions after implementing a datawarehousing system that allows...
April 10, 2002 10 Apr'02
Oracle driving users to 11i upgrade

Oracle is working overtime to entice its user base to migrate to its next generation of business applications, using as...
April 08, 2002 08 Apr'02
Appsworld: Oracle to push users to upgrade

Oracle is expected to use its Oracle AppsWorld conference in San Diego this week to prod users to upgrade to the latest release...
April 05, 2002 05 Apr'02
McData unveils 2GB switches

Nearly six months after announcing its intentions to upgrade its family of switches and directors, McData has announced the...
March 27, 2002 27 Mar'02
Gartner joins attack on Oracle licence charges

Leading research company, Gartner Group, has added its weight to the attack on Oracle's database pricing methods that was...
March 22, 2002 22 Mar'02
Oracle urges users to hand over application management

Oracle is trying to beef up its outsourcing operations with an international campaign to persuade customers to hand over...
March 20, 2002 20 Mar'02
Oracle preps 9i for IBM mainframe Linux

Oracle will release a version of its 9i database software for IBM mainframe Linux environments in mid-2002, the company said.
March 07, 2002 07 Mar'02
EDS enhances virtual design tool

Electronic Data Systems' (EDS) has announced upgrades to its virtual prototyping product, Vis Concept.
March 07, 2002 07 Mar'02
IBM announces XML for DB2

IBM has announced plans to offer a database capable of managing objects, relational data, and XML documents
February 28, 2002 28 Feb'02
Judge urges settlement in MySQL suit

A hearing in a federal court in Boston, USA, has been adjourned earlier than expected when District Court Judge Patti B. Saris...
February 25, 2002 25 Feb'02
SAP/Oracle support escalation fails users

SAP and Oracle have been criticised by analyst firm Gartner after a software bug, brought down a major user's installation for 14...
February 11, 2002 11 Feb'02
Hacker info shuts down Comcast site

A hacker found exposed data from a list of potential corporate customers of Comcast Business Communications, forcing the company...
January 31, 2002 31 Jan'02
Online land register to end gazumping

The UK's first national land and property database will help to end gazumping in the property market by 2005, the head of the key...
January 29, 2002 29 Jan'02
Users cautious about new Oracle pricing

New Oracle pricing models announced at the January Appsworld conference are causing concern among users.
January 29, 2002 29 Jan'02
Quest consolidates Oracle database tools

Quest Software has consolidated several of its Oracle database management tools into a unified product called Quest Central for...
January 25, 2002 25 Jan'02
Mobile and wireless products boost Sybase Q4

Sybase has reported a profit for its fourth-quarter which is down year on year. However it managed to beat Wall Street...
January 18, 2002 18 Jan'02
Oracle's ASP service flounders in Europe

Oracle has just 10 European customers for its Oracle.com hosted applications service, but still expects half of its users to move...
January 18, 2002 18 Jan'02
Oracle adds Daily Business Close tool to its suite

Oracle has launched what it claims will be the jewel in its E-Business Suite.
January 18, 2002 18 Jan'02
Oracle to drop support for 10.7 applications suite

Oracle will end support for its version 10.7 business applications suite in June 2003, despite customer requests for another...
January 18, 2002 18 Jan'02
Oracle revamps 11i suite pricing

Oracle has used AppsWorld in Amsterdam to announce a simplified pricing structure for its 11i applications suite.
January 15, 2002 15 Jan'02
Oracle acquires voice portal technology

Database giant Oracle plans to give users voice-based, wireless access to a range of applications and databases following its...
December 13, 2001 13 Dec'01
Oracle unveils service packages to help with upgrade

Oracle has announced new migration-related service packages which will help users upgrading to the latest flavour of its business...
December 12, 2001 12 Dec'01
Oracle pledges to cut your IT bill by 5%

Software giant Oracle is branching out into the total IT outsourcing business, with a guarantee to cut customers' IT bills by 5%...
December 11, 2001 11 Dec'01
Oracle expense is worth it, say users

Oracle's customers are a relatively contented group, according to a survey from the UK user group, although 9iAS and 11i users...
December 06, 2001 06 Dec'01
Councils seek help after electoral register ruling

Local authorities are seeking extra cash from the Government to rework their electoral roll databases following a landmark court...
December 06, 2001 06 Dec'01
Oracle adds to 9i features

Oracle is unveiling a second release of its 9i database software this week at the Oracle Openworld conference in San Francisco,...
December 04, 2001 04 Dec'01
Oracle Openworld: Compaq talks clustering

Compaq chairman and chief executive Michael Capellas used his keynote talk at Oracle OpenWorld to announce new tools designed to...
December 04, 2001 04 Dec'01
Oracle Openworld: Clustering software in the spotlight

Oracle is using its Openworld conference to promote what it sees as an underused feature of its Oracle9i database: Real...