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The moment a network manager connects a database management system to a Web client, she has crossed the threshold of a new frontier and entered the next generation of corporate […]

It is the age of corporate mergers and acquisitions, decentralized data and, above all, heterogeneous databases. New enterprise applications often must piece together information from these disparate data sources, but […]

Users of the Informix Universal Server soon will have their first chance to use modeling software to create enterprise application: Next month, Silverrun Technologies Inc., previously known as Computer Systems […]

Redwood Shores, Calif.--When Oracle unveils its long-awaited next-generation database at New York's Radio City Music Hall next week, don't expect the company to be serving any fresh Java. Java, the […]

Users of Computer Associates International's OpenIngres database last week were given a preview of the first major overhaul of the product in nearly two years. CA plans to make the […]

An Interview with Informix Software CTO Mike Stonebraker Informix Software Inc. this week has begun shipping its newly designed database engine that will let organizations integrate structured relational data with […]

When the Seattle Times recently created its Web site using an Illustra object-oriented database, it found that a new set of possibilities arose under the harshest of circumstances: covering the […]

Company releases details, but marketing is months away Oracle is finally getting the word out to users about its Oracle 8 database management system and related Sedona technology. The company […]

While Oracle races to fulfill its promise of creating Web-enabled cartridges for each of its 35 enterprise application modules, Oracle users are involved in their own races to perform cost-benefit […]

'Cartridges' ease development of custom applications Oracle this week will unveil plans for delivering a broad selection of software modules or "cartridges" that will make it easier to for companies […]

Oracle next week will disclose a sweeping change to its data security strategy. The company will shift from a case-by-case approach to an overall commitment to encryption technology from RSA […]

Outlines its plan to extend core database architecture. SAN DIEGO Sybase Inc. last week gave customers a preview of its next-generation database architecture that will support a host of new […]

With this week's launch of SQL Server version 6.5, Microsoft believes it has the right stuff tocompete with Unix systems in terms of performance, features and enterprise scalability. While previous […]

Network managers will be able to deploy a single database to access relational, video, audio and enhanced text data with the release of Oracle Corp.'s Oracle Universal Server. The Oracle […]

The new version of Objectivity Inc.'s object-oriented Objectivity database will be more resistant to hardware failures and more robust in a distributed-enterprise environment, company officials announced last week. Objectivity 4.0 […]

With its acquisition of Illustra Information Technologies Inc., Informix Software Inc. could leapfrog giants Oracle Corp., IBM and Sybase Inc. in the race to integrate management of multimedia data objects […]

The impending release of IBM's DB2 for Microsoft Windows NT gives network managers leaning toward Microsoft Corp.'s up-and-coming network operating system an even better reason to choose it. IBM last […]

Dynasty Tech's new version offers performance boosts and backs Novell's TP monitor The new version of Dynasty Technologies Inc.'s object-oriented, multiplatform development environment not only has look-and-feel improvements, but it […]

SAN FRANCISCO A high-level official at Oracle Corp. last week described key components of Oracle 8, the company's next-generation database, which will combine relational- and object-based technologies. Oracle's goal is […]

The Front Office Solutions division of Inference Corp. has spun off into an independent company, Brightware Inc., and has taken with it an object-oriented framework product for developing database- and […]

For media giant Time Warner Inc., the movement of large object blocks (LOBs) is not part of some future wish list, but a necessity for its cable television business. Most […]

Oracle continues to tease its customer base with partial revelations of its forthcoming Oracle 8 database en route to a full unveiling of the product later this summer. The latest […]

The new generation of universal database servers, which will let organizations store multimedia objects as part of the more typical structured records, could exceed the bandwidth limits of some corporate […]

New York--The database wars took on a new level of intensity last week when Informix Software Inc. released its widely touted Universal Server, a system that promises to add new […]

While Microsoft was rolling out its two-year game plan for Microsoft SQL Server earlier this month, many developers attending the conference were more concerned with finding answers to their current […]

A new version of Dynasty Technologies Inc.'s object-oriented application development environment will be extended to embrace Microsoft Visual Basic and PowerBuilder applications into its object-oriented framework. Version 3 of Dynasty, […]

Midway through its transformation from a relational database company to a "universal server" company, Informix Software Inc. presented a progress report last week at its worldwide user conference in Chicago. […]

Sybase Inc. announced middleware this month that extends the reach of Sybase database applications to a wide range of non-Sybase mainframe, desktop and Unix server data sources. The company will […]

Computer Associates International Inc. last week announced a Web-enabled, object-oriented database for rapid application development. CA's Jasmine combines Fujitsu Ltd.'s object technology with a CA database engine capable of storing […]

The much-rumored small-footprint version of the Oracle database targeted at mobile and occasionally connected workers will be announced this week by Oracle Corp. Personal Oracle Lite will be shipped by […]

NEW YORK--Two technologies continue to vie for the attention of network managers who need to provide decision-support applications to analyze huge data sources and archives--multidimensional database technology (MDD) and relational […]

Corporate-application developers early next year will be able to use Computer Systems Advisers Inc.'s Silverrun as a graphical data modeling front end for Informix Software Inc.'s New Era application-development environment. […]

NEW YORK--Users can easily and less expensively bridge the gaps between different databases with a new product from Oracle Corp. that replicates data across multiple vendors' products. Oracle this week […]

Sybase Inc. last week gave attendees of PC Expo in Chicago a sneak preview of the next-generation version of its database management system, which the company said could boost application […]

IBM this week will boost the performance and scalability of its top-of-the-line DB2 database, introducing a new version of its MVS-based database that runs on IBM parallel-transaction systems. Version 4 […]

Linking live mapping and other geographic information to enterprise applications across the network is appealing, but it has always carried with it the potential of bringing an enterprise network to […]