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Oracle Idol: Screven Delivers on MySQL Promises, But Judges’ Votes Uncertain
Larry Ellison did not speak at the O’Reilly MySQL event. While the Register was correct to say “Oracle executives are fanning out to woo open sourcers,” in its sharp-tongued review, Larry was not...
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Microsoft Briefs On SQL Server R2 – Confusion, Questions Result
SQL Server 2008 R2 is near release. Briefings for analysts are underway, and right now the picture is a mess. Although seemingly relegated to an adjunct position compared to Office in Microsoft’s...
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SAP – Sybase: Synergies? Suspect So.
SAP announced today that it will acquire Sybase for $65.00 per share, representing an enterprise value of approximately $5.8 billion. The announcement says that “customers will be able to better...
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Sybase Database Value to SAP – Long Term and Short
It’s not what you think – the hidden jewel for the near term may just be SQL Anywhere. Read on. Disclosure: I worked at Sybase in the last millennium, when it hit the wall at $1B the first time and...
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SapphireNow Day One – Getting Virtual Events Right, And More
I got some great messages today from people who enjoyed my tweets “from” SapphireNow in Orlando – although I wasn’t there. That’s a tribute – not to me; we’re only talking tweets, for goodness’ sake –...
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VoltDB – DIY OLTP. Open Source. Win.
In a seemingly perfect marriage of product and target market, database pioneer Mike Stonebraker’s new in-memory database company VoltDB has emerged from stealth mode using the open source model, soon...
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Attunity – An Independent Alternative For Data Replication
Attunity (ATTUF), a small OTC-traded company out of Massachusetts, is quietly building up its base, expanding a 1000-customer foothold in real-time change data capture (CDC) and data replication that...
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Is Microsoft the New Safe Harbor?
The following is a guest post from Ray Wang of Altimeter Group. I wrote a different title, but otherwise this is as it appears on his blog. Clients Now See Microsoft As The Neutral Vendor, Hence All...
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Informatica Re-Factors the Value Chain for the Cloud
Informatica’s cloud ambitions continue and deepen with each new release. In the years since its 2006 launch, Informatica Cloud, the strategic initiative launched to bring Informatica’s data integration...
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Tibco Silver Spotfire – Social BI? Why Not?
Tibco, fresh from a Q2 with license revenue up 23% over last year’s, continuing a two year run of beating consensus earnings estimates, has stepped up and out ahead to pursue the long-coveted...
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