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June 24, 2003 24 Jun'03
AppsWorld - Throw out your databases, says Oracle's Ellison

Larry Ellison, chairman and chief executive officer of database company Oracle has urged companies to throw out their myriad...
June 24, 2003 24 Jun'03
AppsWorld - Oracle unveils collaboration applications

Oracle has introduced three collaboration applications and an enhanced product lifecycle management tool for its E-Business...
June 24, 2003 24 Jun'03
AppsWorld - Oracle's UK users prepare to serve up PeopleSoft questions

Oracle's potential acquisition of PeopleSoft is "a double-edged sword," according to Paul Parnis, applications director for the...
June 23, 2003 23 Jun'03
Salesforce.com and Oracle drive CRM upgrades

Salesforce.com and Oracle will unveil major upgrades to their CRM products, illustrating markedly divergent strategies for...

June 20, 2003 20 Jun'03
Users anxious about Oracle/PeopleSoft battle

PeopleSoft chief executive officer Craig Conway's speech at the CeBIT America show in New York left a number of customers anxious...
June 20, 2003 20 Jun'03
PeopleSoft chief avoids takeover issue during keynote

PeopleSoft chief executive officer Craig Conway barely touched on Oracle's bid for his company during his keynote speech at CeBIT...
June 18, 2003 18 Jun'03
Oracle's UK and US user group rally together

Oracle's UK and Ireland user group said that it is allying with the company's US-based user group in the hope of having a greater...
June 17, 2003 17 Jun'03
PeopleSoft revises JD Edwards bid

PeopleSoft has restructured its bid to acquire JD Edwards in an effort speed-through the deal and block Oracle’s hostile takeover...
June 16, 2003 16 Jun'03
Ford uses data analysis to boost productivity by 50% at Dagenham

Ford UK has increased output by 50% on engine production lines at its Dagenham plant using sophisticated analysis of data...
June 16, 2003 16 Jun'03
Oracle users see benefits in PeopleSoft move

IT managers who use Oracle's applications are welcoming the proposed buyout bid of PeopleSoft.

June 12, 2003 12 Jun'03
Oracle-PeopleSoft merger may harm partners

If Oracle succeeds in its hostile $5.1bn bid to acquire PeopleSoft, the deal could have a ripple effect on vendor partners.
June 11, 2003 11 Jun'03
PeopleSoft withdraws from Oracle lawsuit

PeopleSoft has has rejected taking legal action against Oracle over its hostile takeover.
June 10, 2003 10 Jun'03
PeopleSoft CEO spells out future

PeopleSoft chief executive officer Craig Conway shrugged off last week's unwanted bid by enterprise software rival Oracle when he...
June 10, 2003 10 Jun'03
Oracle's PeopleSoft bid spells trouble for users

PeopleSoft chief executive officer Craig Conway has called Oracle's $5.1bn offer for his company "atrociously bad behaviour from...
June 09, 2003 09 Jun'03
Reshuffle in ERP market sees Oracle drop to third place

The merger of PeopleSoft and JD Edwards, and the sale of Baan last week, point to a trend toward consolidation among the...
June 06, 2003 06 Jun'03
Oracle puts in $5.1bn bid for PeopleSoft

Oracle has put in a $5.1bn offer for PeopleSoft, just four days after Peoplesoft announced its $1.7bn merger with JD Edwards.
May 29, 2003 29 May'03
Oracle app helps with financial compliance

Oracle will release an application in the coming weeks to help companies comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, a set of...
May 20, 2003 20 May'03
Ultra wideband link breaks Intel record

Scientists in Singapore have demonstrated an ultra wideband (UWB) wireless link capable of transmitting and receiving data at...
May 19, 2003 19 May'03
Covisint leads drive to move motor industry from EDI to XML

Covisint plans to lead an industry group that will drive the replacement of Electronic Data Interchange technologies with XML and...
May 19, 2003 19 May'03
Oracle hires top Morgan Stanley analyst

Oracle has appointed a Morgan Stanley Dean Witter software industry analyst as executive vice president in the office of the...
May 14, 2003 14 May'03
Car group Convisint upgrades to XML

Car industry e-services exchange Covisint has launched an IT consortium that aims to replace existing Electronic Data Interchange...
May 14, 2003 14 May'03
Oracle adds component to Sales software

Oracle is adding a component for creating sales proposals to the latest version of its Oracle Sales software scheduled to be...
April 29, 2003 29 Apr'03
EDS links purchasing and design software

Electronic Data Systems is integrating its product lifecycle management software with its procurement management software.
April 29, 2003 29 Apr'03
XML makes it easier to search Which? Online

Which? Online, the internet arm of the Consumers' Association, has embarked on the first stageof a data visualisation project to...
April 29, 2003 29 Apr'03
Oracle looks to scale management tool

Oracle is to spruce up its Enterprise Manager tool to enable management of greater numbers of databases.
April 28, 2003 28 Apr'03
Health data net may help combat Sars

A consortium of US public health agencies and health care companies in June plans to launch a three-month test of a data...
April 23, 2003 23 Apr'03
Macromedia links Flash apps to data

Macromedia's Flash MX Data Connection Kit will provide pre-built connections to data sources for the purpose of boosting...
April 15, 2003 15 Apr'03
Stock exchange goes live on Windows 2003 data engine

The London Stock Exchange will go live this week with an information service based on Microsoft Windows 2003 and a new...
April 14, 2003 14 Apr'03
MySQL shows off open source database

MySQL is promoting its open source database as a viable, more affordable alternative to products from Oracle, IBM and the other...
April 08, 2003 08 Apr'03
Teradata moves to 64-bit Itanium architecture

Data warehousing specialist Teradata used its annual user conference in Florence this week to announce a host of software...
April 03, 2003 03 Apr'03
Dell and Oracle tout enterprise alliance

Dell chief executive officer Michael Dell and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison shared a stage at Dell's Enterprise Event in New York...
March 31, 2003 31 Mar'03
Telemetry services gain steam

US telecoms company Sprint has struck telemetry deals with a refuse collection company in the US that includes data collection...
March 26, 2003 26 Mar'03
Data profiling saves Abbey £15.2m

Abbey National has saved an estimated £15.2m by using data profiling and analysis software to help the bank make better use of...
March 20, 2003 20 Mar'03
PeopleSoft revamps supply chain software

PeopleSoft will launch supply chain planning software in May in a renewed effort to win market share from rivals including Oracle...
March 14, 2003 14 Mar'03
Microsoft expands datacentre simplification plans

Microsoft will soon begin delivering software components for an initiative aimed at reducing datacentre complexity, with the goal...
March 13, 2003 13 Mar'03
Oracle upgrades Warehouse Builder

Oracle's latest version of Data Warehouse Builder will make it easier for database developers and administrators to tie together...
March 05, 2003 05 Mar'03
B&Q uses .net to cut stock losses

B&Q has cut stock losses by 15% since implementing a database that allows managers to access and analyse shrinkage data from any...
February 17, 2003 17 Feb'03
Data analysis firm adds supply chain tools

The SAS Institute is expanding its line of business-intelligence software to help users apply in-depth analytics to their supply...
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...