Terracotta Inc. last week released a higher throughput version of its open source in-memory database caching platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/21/2009
Oracle today said it has agreed to acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of cash and debt.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/20/2009
The European Commission (EC) granted Microsoft another week to respond to a competition complaint involving its Internet Explorer Web browser.
Microsoft released a public beta version of Exchange Server 2010, the company's newest e-mail server, which is being rolled out a part of the company's renewed focus on the unified communications market.
Microsoft this week rolled out the next community test version of a distributed cache platform code-named "Velocity" that promises to speed up .NET-based applications.
Microsoft on Tuesday released SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1, which provides updates to the relational database management system, but no new features.
While the IT security community waited anxiously to see what havoc the Conficker worm might bring to infected systems on April 1, another worm slithered into the picture and now has Microsoft's full attention.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/08/2009
Embarcadero Technologies has released a new suite of tools aimed at developers looking to tune Java and SQL code in data driven applications.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/08/2009
Zend Technologies will release its commercial-grade server for PHP applications on Tuesday.
- By Herb Torrens
- 04/06/2009
Microsoft will permit Windows 7 Professional edition downgrades to Windows XP Professional, according a report by veteran Microsoft watcher Mary-Jo Foley published on Monday.
The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that the proposed $7 billion dollar deal for IBM Corp. to acquire Sun Microsystems virtually collapsed this weekend.
New tools for data modeling and a new class library for LINQ.
A pure relational database in the cloud will be offered by Microsoft via its forthcoming Azure Services Platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/01/2009
Aligning SQL in the cloud to SQL on the ground is about more than just common sense. It's about getting things done.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 04/01/2009
Mozilla rolled out security updates for Firefox after the Web browser was hacked during a contest two weeks ago at a software security convention in Vancouver.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/30/2009