Matthew Hicks

Nortel Networks Corp. is planning to cut another 7,000 workers as it continues to struggle to return to profitability in a weakened market for networking equipment. The Brampton, Ontario, company announced this week that it now expects a decline of as much of 10 percent in revenues in its third quarter compared to the second […]

REDMOND, Wash.–Microsoft Corp. this week released a new feature for its SQL Server 2000 database that can generate personalized notifications to a range of devices, including mobile devices. SQL Server 2000 Notification Services, in beta since April and now available for free download, is an application platform built on top of SQL Server that can […]

Oracle Corp. on Tuesday will release a promised pricing and licensing guide that company officials hope will help clear up customer confusion of its policies. The guide, called the Oracle Software Investment Guide, offers about 40 pages of details on licensing and pricing policies and scenarios for Oracles database, application server, development tools and enterprise […]

Two new appliances are taking XML processing and management out of the application server and putting it on the network. Devices from startups DataPower Technology Inc. and Sarvega Inc. are moving the processing into XML-aware networking appliances that can speed the routing and processing of XML data, provide central management, and add security features. DataPower […]

Neocore Inc. in the next release of its native XML database is improving performance, adding new querying capabilities and expanding interface support. Version 2.6 of NeoCore XML Information Management System, known as XMS and slated to be generally available this week, will provide an order-of-magnitude improvement in query-and-store performance and add support for XQuery, the […]

IBM researchers are working on a new database design that takes consumer privacy into account in the way it stores and retrieves information. IBM Fellow Rakesh Agrawal this week is presenting the idea, called a Hippocratic database, at the Very Large Data Base 2002 conference in Hong Kong. The design is based on the Hippocratic […]

Peribit Networks Inc. last week introduced a software update to a device that it said makes it easier to manage network quality of service and reduce the amount of bandwidth needed to run applications such as VOIP. The enhanced MSR (Molecular Sequence Reduction) technology in the Santa Clara, Calif., companys SR (Sequence Reducer)-50 network management […]

The creators of the open-source databases MySQL and PostgreSQL are trying to push them further into the enterprise with new features aimed at better support for transactions, database recovery and replication. MySQL ABs MySQL 4.0, expected to be released as a stable version by years end, provides the InnoDB transaction storage engine that includes row-level […]

NeoCore Inc. on Monday is announcing the next release of its native XML database with a focus on improved performance, new querying capabilities and expanded interface support. Version 2.6 of the NeoCore XML Information Management System (XMS), which will be available Aug. 30, will provide an order of magnitude improvement in query and store performance […]

SAN FRANCISCO–Oracle Corp. Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison tried to woo the LinuxWorld crowd here Wednesday by extolling the benefits of running mission-critical enterprise applications on Linux and Oracles 9i database. Ellison, in a keynote that concentrated on Oracles “unbreakable Linux” push launched in June, said the open-source operating system has become the cheapest, fastest […]