Brief: IBM to market Sybase Linux database
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IBM and Sybase have agreed to add support for Sybase's database software on IBM's eServer OpenPower Linux servers, and the two companies will jointly sell and market each other's products.
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The Motley Fool - Sybase (NYSE: SY - News) last week shelled out $425 million in cash for Mobile 365, a company backed by venture capital. It's certainly a big deal -- in comparison with Sybase's $2 billion market cap -- and investors nudged the stock down 4% on the news. Yet, to be a player in the fast-moving mobile world, high-priced deals are unavoidable, and in this case, Sybase made a savvy choice.
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Sybase Inc. is trying to lure businesses seeking low-cost open source DBMS alternatives by offering a free production license for its Adaptive Server Enterprise Express Edition on Linux.
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Company goes head-to-head with MySQL and PostgreSQL with a free version of its ASE database for Linux.
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Ziff Davis - Sybase is offering a free version of its leading enterprise database management system for Linux.
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IBM is developing a new, &quot;one-stop-shop&quot; product offering, Lotus Foundations, aimed at companies with five to 500 employees, it said Monday.Lotus Foundations will consist of on-premise software servers sold primarily through partners. IBM is also developing a set of accompanying Web-hosted services, now available in a beta version.The company plans to bundle Lotus Domino, file management, directory services, firewall, backup and productivity tools in the initial offering of Lotus Foundations. Customers who need more power will be able to bring on additional servers, according to IBM. The company&#39;s partner community will also be able to integrate their own applications into the core platform.The server software sold under Foundations will be autonomic or &quot;self-healing,&quot; and therefore appropriate for small companies without paid IT staffers, IBM said.Foundations will be the home of technology IBM acquired through its&#160;purchase last week of Net Integration Technologies. That deal is set to close later this year.&quot;Net Integration is a key part of our strategy here. That&#39;s why we bought them,&quot; said Mike Rhodin, general manager of Lotus, during a press conference Monday at IBM&#39;s Lotusphere show in Orlando, Florida.IBM did not release pricing information on Monday, but Rhodin indicated the company plans to compete vigorously for market share.&quot;Our intent as we price the Foundations offering, to be blunt, is to be very aggressive,&quot; Rhodin said. &quot;The total value we&#39;ll put around the solution is going to be pretty big for the customer and we&#39;re going to leave some room in there for the partner to make some money.&quot;The Web-hosted services, on the other hand, will focus on helping businesses collaborate with each other, such as through contact and file sharing, or online chat and Web meetings. Interested users can register for the beta test at bluehouse.lotus.com.The Bluehouse beta test represents a chance for IBM to fine-tune the economics of selling software as a service, according to Rhodin. &quot;You don&#39;t find a lot of profitable software-as-a-service companies. The business model is in evolution,&quot; he said. &quot;Our approach is going to be to work with partners and the marketplace to find out the best solution for them.&quot;Also Monday, IBM and SAP said they are codeveloping a software product under the codename &quot;Atlantic,&quot; which will integrate IBM&#39;s Lotus Notes collaboration and office productivity software with SAP&#39;s Business Suite.The Atlantic project represents a further deepening of the long-standing relationship between IBM and SAP.&quot;We think the timing is just right,&quot; Rhodin said. &quot;The timing for collaboration and business systems to come together is right now.&quot;The first release of Atlantic is expected to ship in the fourth quarter of this year, and will feature support for SAP workflows, reporting and analytics. It will also include the ability to use roles from within the Lotus Notes client, and tools for expanding these core capabilities, IBM said in a statement.
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InfoWorld - IBM Corp. on Wednesday unveiled three server offerings aimed at helping companies of all sizes consolidate Web-tier Linux servers in their IT environments.
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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 leader Oracle Corp. .
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(InfoWorld) - IBMÂ hopes to bring BI to a wider audience of midmarket customers with a new software stack developed in partnership with Business Objects SA, industry sources said. The stack includes IBM's DB2 Data Warehouse Edition, Business Objects' Crystal Decisions, and a version of the Linux OS from Red Hat or Novell, the sources said. The products have been integrated and come on a single disk so they can be installed on a server at the customer's premises to get a BI system up and running quickly, the sources said. IBM has worked to simplify the installation process by automating setup and configuration tasks, reducing room for error. The result is a BI appliance that can be set up and ready to load data far more quickly than most BI systems today, according to one source. The software is expected to be announced in the coming weeks and shown at the Cebit trade show in Germany later this month. A shipping date wasn't available, and representatives from IBM and Business Objects declined to comment. The product is being tested by some customers now, a source said. It comes at an interesting time for BI software, which is used by companies to collect and analyze data and help them improve the performance of their business. On Thursday,Â Oracle announced a deal to acquire BI software company Hyperion SolutionsÂ for $3.3 billion, and analysts predict more consolidation as big vendors like IBMÂ and MicrosoftÂ add further BI capabilities to their products. The product from IBM is an attempt to make BI more appealing to midsize customers -- a market Business Objects has been targeting with its recently launched Business Objects Crystal Decisions. It may be followed by similar products from IBM aimed at bigger companies and with software from other partners. The new product is a "soft appliance," or a stack of software for a specific task delivered ready to install on a server. It differs from a true appliance server, in which the software and hardware are delivered together with the software preinstalled. Some other vendors, notably Netezza, sell data warehousing appliances with some analytics capabilities built in. IBM may be going a step further by including third-party BI tools as well -- although analysts said it's difficult to tell how innovative the product is without having seen it. Alys Woodward, an analyst with IDC, called it a new approach for IBM and one that validates the server appliance model. It could also help Business Objects to fend off a challenge in the midmarket from Microsoft, which has been adding BI capabilities to its SQL Server database, she said. Ian Charlesworth, an analyst with Ovum, said Business Objects was the right partner for IBM to pick. "Crystal Decisions is very popular. It's easy to install, and it's lightweight. If you were looking to do a one-disk install, that would probably be the best one you could choose," he said. Each server can scale up to about a terabyte of data, and an entry-level system for 100GB of data could be priced at around $25,000, including the hardware and software, a source said. Jonathan Eunice, an analyst with Illuminata, called it an attractive entry price, although the value of the system will depend on its performance capabilities and other parameters, he said.
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Sybase said today that it has struck a deal with IBM in which Big Blue will market and distribute Sybase&#39;s Linux database management software.
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InfoWorld - Continuing to pound away at the low end of the Unix market, IBM on Tuesday rolled out its first less-than-&#36;4,000 pSeries server, which the company hopes will attract first-time users looking to blend existing Unix- and Linux-based environments.
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Sun Microsystems (Quote, Chart) is in talks to purchase a profitable Linux distributor, sources have told internetnews.com. Sources close to the discussions said they expected that company to be embedded Linux
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(InfoWorld) - Open-source database vendor Ingres is hoping that its newly released Icebreaker database and Linux combination will help it win new customers and enter fresh markets. Formerly known asÂ Project Icebreaker, Ingres Icebreaker became generally available Tuesday and is the first new product from Ingres since itsÂ spin-off from CAÂ as an independent company in 2005. Icebreaker is a veryÂ tight coupling of the Ingres 2006 database with rPath's Linux distribution. The software includes only those components of rPath Linux needed to run the database, around 15 percent to 20 percent of the operating system, according to Emma McGrattan, senior vice president of engineering at Ingres. The aim of the offering is to make it easier to install and manage the database and Linux combination as well as substantially cut maintenance and support costs, she said. Ingres will deliver patches and updates for both the database and OS in a single maintenance stream. Icebreaker includes support for virtualization technologies from the likes of VMware and XenSource, McGrattan added. "Icebreaker will take us into new markets and new use of the [Ingres] database," McGrattan said. In its first year as an independent company, Ingres focused on its existing customer base and ensuring their needs were being met, but the vendor's now ready to aggressively go after new business opportunities. Ingres is hoping that third parties will want to build applications on top of Icebreaker. Initially, those efforts will be around business intelligence (BI) and live reporting, McGrattan said, with the vendor in discussions with both open-source and closed-source BI players. As for other areas where Icebreaker might fit, McGrattan sees the combination as useful for companies moving to the SOA (service-oriented architecture) development model as well as in the on-demand market. "We think Icebreaker is also the perfect platform for SaaS [software-as-a-service] vendors," she said. At present, Ingres has no specific partners to name in that area. A natural ally could be Salesforce.comÂ since Ingres uses the vendor's hosted CRM (customer relationship management) internally. Ingres plans to build out a series of other appliances on top of Icebreaker, McGrattan said, with details to come later this year. A previous attempt in the industry to launch a database appliance, Oracle's Raw Iron project, sunk without a trace after a trumpeted November 2000 launch at the Comdex computer show where the database vendor touted a partnership with hardware vendor Compaq. The operating system for Raw Iron was a mixture of Linux and Sun Microsystems' Solaris Unix OS. By contrast, Ingres is positioning Icebreaker as unfettered to any particular hardware, leaving the choice of server up to the user, McGrattan said. Licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2, Icebreaker runs on any x86-compatible Linux server. Over time, it's possible Icebreaker may be offered pre-installed on specific servers, but Ingres isn't currently in talks with any hardware providers, she added. Icebreaker is available free under the GPL or users can purchase a maintenance and support subscription for the combination at the same price as paid maintenance and support for the Ingres 2006 database, McGrattan said. Â
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IBM will push its Power5 line of servers down into the low end of the market, taking Linux with it, when it unwraps an aggressively priced series of Linux-only systems on Monday that will go up against the offerings of Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard.
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TechWeb - Sybase Inc. on Tuesday said it plans to ship next year a version of its Linux-based database on IBM's eServer systems.
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Data no longer satisfies 'hungry' Sybase US software tools builder Sybase plans to move beyond its database roots and challenge the leaders in enterprise software development.â¦
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The latest Ubuntu distribution of Linux will support an entire new Lotus office productivity suite from IBM. Red Hat said it will support part of the suite: Notes and Lotus' upcoming Symphony, which is still in beta.