Motorola rolls out database management software
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AUGUST 17, 2004  - Motorola Inc. announced today it has completed the second phase of a four-phase rollout of information life-cycle management (ILM) software that cut its production database size by as much as 50% in some business ...
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IBM next week will ship the latest version of its DB2 Universal Database, which offers new self-tuning capabilities designed to reduce management overhead even as databases grow bigger and harder to maintain.
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The software, developed by IBM&#39;s new Sensors and Actuators business unit, is designed to help businesses collect and act on data from RFID and other sensor-based technology.
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InfoWorld - Business Objects released new software Wednesday&#160;that combines EPM (enterprise performance management), BI, and data integration into a comprehensive suite aimed at CFOs and business finance managers.
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IBM (Quote, Chart) announced its first major database refresh in almost two years with new features from the company&#39;s autonomic computing vault.
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TechWeb - IBM plans to fold the in-memory database vendor into its information management software division. Solid's technology can be used in speeding up business intelligence software.
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San Francisco, September 9: International Business Machines Corp late on Wednesday rolled out a new version of its database software aimed at users of Linux and Unix operating systems that it hopes will help the company take away market share from market
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(InfoWorld) - Oracle is releasing its first version of the core Berkeley DB embedded database since acquiring the software through its FebruaryÂ purchase of open-source developer Sleepycat Software. Oracle is due to make Berkeley DB release 4.5 generally available on Wednesday. The focus is around improving performance, availability, and ease of use, according to Rex Wang, vice president of embedded systems marketing at Oracle and Sleepycat's former vice president of marketing. The new functionality was already on the road map at Sleepycat, he said. First developed in 1991, Berkeley DB is the core version of the Sleepycat embedded database, but the open-source vendor alsoÂ began offering XMLÂ (extensible markup language) andÂ Java versions of its databaseÂ in recent years. Oracle already put out a new release of Berkeley DB Java Edition, version 3.0, in May and plans a refresh of Berkeley DB XML shortly, Wang said. New in Berkeley DB release 4.5 are the ability for users to upgrade or patch a replicated Berkeley DB without having to take the entire system down, multiversion concurrency controls to handle changes being made to the database by many users, and a replication framework to help developers build highly available systems. Oracle is actively looking at how to get Berkeley DB to work with the rest of its product portfolio, but has no news on that front as yet. Unlike other areas of its business, notably applications, where Oracle is looking to consolidate disparate products into a single code base, the vendor's approach to the embedded database market is rather different. "We offer customers a range of products to meet very different needs," Wang said. As well as Berkeley DB, Oracle has its TimesTen In-Memory Database and Oracle Database Lite 10g and the company can also embed its higher end Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Application Server 10g software. Berkeley DB is complementary to Oracle's other embedded databases, but differs in having no SQL (structured query language) layer and is able to store data in memory or on disk. There's a whole host of different organizations looking to embed databases in very different environments from cell phones to networking equipment to hosted applications. The beauty of embedded databases is that they're designed to run "unattended," without any need for management by database administrators, effectively disappearing from view into other applications, he added. Oracle'sÂ prime reason for acquiring SleepycatÂ was and remains the vendor's desire to gain more presence in the embedded database arena, Wang said. Earlier this week, open-source database vendor MySQL AB confirmed that it had discontinued support for Berkeley DB as one of its storage engines. "That was due to our request to them which they readily agreed to," Wang said. He doesn't believe there was a significant amount of customer use. "It was an interface that neither party was maintaining," Wang added. "For years, no work was done on the interface." Â
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After aggressively placing its new storage boxes in direct competition with storage giant EMC, IBM has now released new storage software to support EMC&#39;s Symmetrix DMX Series.
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Sybase Inc. released a new version of its application development tool on Monday, called PowerBuilder 10, and outlined plans for an upgrade to its database software, Adaptive Server Enterprise, which will go into beta at the end of this month and is due for release next year.
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Team iBATIS releases iBATIS.NET 1.0.0 - Data Mapping for .NET applications. The iBATIS Data Mapper framework now makes it easier to use a database with .NET applications. iBATIS Data Mapper couples objects with stored procedures or SQL statements using a XML descriptor. Simplicity is the biggest advantage of the iBATIS Data Mapper over object relational mapping tools. To use iBATIS Data Mapper you rely on your own objects, XML, and SQL. There is little to learn that you don't already know. With iBATIS Data Mapper you have the full power of both SQL and stored procedures at your fingertips.   The new .NET implementation includes an expanded Developers Guide, a new Tutorial solution, and an implementation of the infamous Petstore application. The very popular Guide has been expanded to include both the .NET and Java implementations of iBATIS in a single document. Besides being easier for the team to maintain, the combined Guide highlights the similarities, and occasional differences, between the implementations. A new Tutorial solution introduces .NET newbies to iBATIS using an "over-the-shoulder" cookbook approach, featuring test-driven developmen.  Like the iBATIS JPetstore4 application, NPetshop is a best-practices application and demonstrates using iBATIS Data Mapper with the optional IBATIS Data Access framework. The DAO guide has not been adapted to .NET yet, but between the NPestore application and the original Java guide, developers needing the Data Access framework will have no trouble getting started.  To help keep the implementations in synch, the team plans to publish a specification for the SQL Map files that any implementation can observe. Of course, the implementations are already very close, and the team would like to keep them that way. A "watchdog" goal is to be be able to use the share the same set of SQL Maps between applications that realize the same requirements on different platforms (say, NPetshop and JPetstore, for example).  Documentation: iBATIS.NET Tutorial - http://ibatisnet.sourceforge.net/iBatisNetTutorial.html iBATIS Developers Guide - http://ibatisnet.sourceforge.net/DevGuide.html  Downloads: iBATIS.NET 1.0.0 Binary - http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ibatisnet/iBatisNet-bin-1.0.0.249.zip?download iBATIS.NET 1.0.0 Source  - http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ibatisnet/iBatisNet-source-1.0.0.249.zip?download NPetShop 1.0.0 - http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ibatisnet/NPetshop-1.0.0.RC1.zip?download  Forums: Support Requests - http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=376422 Feature Requests - http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=376423 iBATIS.NET SourceForge Project - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ibatisnet  iBATIS for Java - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ibatisdb
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Do people normalise database designs in phones? Blog I was interested to read Ian Murphy's story about SQL Anywhere. Despite the availability of embedded databases, it seems to me that the database (in the DBMS sense) hasn't really come to mobile devices like phones yet. This is largely because of resource constraints - they're back in the 1970s mindset before enterprise databases really took off, using clever file systems for data storage (remember VSAM?).â¦
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(InfoWorld) - On Monday, Oracle unveiled an addition to its Fusion middleware, Oracle Data Integrator, to help users quickly bring the huge amounts of information in different databases and applications across their organizations together in a single place. Data Integrator is based on technology Oracle acquired when itÂ purchased French data integration company SunopsisÂ in October, according to Ashish Mohindroo, senior product director for Oracle's Fusion middleware. Customers can use Data Integrator to pull data from different sources into one location, helping them with data analysis and queries in BI and data warehousing applications. But the tool is not limited to BI, Mohindroo said. It can also be helpful for users engaged in master data management, SOA, and BAM (business activity monitoring) as well as application migration and consolidation, he said. One of the main reasons Oracle bought Sunopsis was to improve Fusion's ability to bring in data from non-Oracle products. Data Integrator supports databases, data warehouses, and applications from vendors including IBM, Microsoft, NCR's Teradata, Netezza, and Sybase. Mohindroo wouldn't comment on Oracle's plans to support Hewlett-Packard's offerings other than to note that HP continues to be a partner.Â HP has been ramping up its data warehousing business recently, debuting its Neoview data warehouse software, server, and storage product family in October. Data Integrator competes with Informatica's PowerCenter data integration software and IBM's rival Information Serverm, which it gained through theÂ 2005 $1.1 billion purchase of Ascential. Oracle inherited an OEM relationship with Informatica through itsÂ acquisition of applications vendor Siebel. In October, Oracle and Informatica reaffirmed that partnership, extending it for four years. The release of Data Integrator won't affect that relationship, Mohindroo said. "We offer it as an alternative to Data Integrator," he added. "Customers can pick and choose." Naturally, Data Integrator is also optimized to work with Oracle's own database, application server, SOA Suite, and BAM software. Customers can use the tool to build data warehouses that are then queried by Oracle's Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition. Oracle shipped the most recent version of that software last week with a focus on tighter integration with Oracle's own applications and new native access to applications rival SAP's Business Information Warehouse. Oracle BI Suite EE 10g Release 3.0 also features a lot of work the vendor has done on the usability side, said Rick Schultz, vice president of Oracle Fusion middleware, including enhanced integration with Microsoft's Office desktop applications suite and drag-and-drop layout editing. Oracle Data Integrator is now shipping at a cost of $12,000 per database target CPU and $4,000 per database source CPU. Users can also try out an evaluation copy of the software online. Â
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Motorola Inc, the world's third  biggest cell phone maker, on Thursday introduced a mobile media  player that shows live television, on-demand video clips and  programming saved on digital video recorders.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) today introduced a series of quick start software bundles for the DB2 9 data server designed to help clients adapt their information management environments to meet new standards for handling XML data.
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By Keiko Morris, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Sep. 20--Motorola Inc.
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BMC Software Inc. has added IBM Corp.'s IMS mainframe database to the platforms supported by its SmartDBA family of products, completing a two-year mission to provide tools for managing all of the major databases from a single, Web-based console.