Microsoft has released SQL Server 2000, its flagship database product, to manufacturing and announced that more than 100 enterprise customers will be going live with the system over the next three months.
Pervasive Software has decided to exit the business of providing support for the PostgreSQL open source database, one of the first failures in the current rush to open source business models. In a letter to the PostgreSQL community of developers...
People become scared to make any decision, take any actions, and conformity becomes all-pervasive. This will help secure ownership and commitment across the whole team. In many departments people seem to be actively encouraged to leave their...
Many SQL databases hold customer data, and the worm highlighted that the data hasn't been safe, said Ullrich. More than 120,000 computers became infected by a worm over the weekend which brought the internet to a standstill for many and caused...
The parliamentary-industry group European Information Society Group (Eurim) will this week question the government on who will take ownership of a national address database and how it will be managed.
The ownership is on the community" for such support, he said, likening the situation to Microsoft's responsibility for supporting then-dominant Novell NetWare in the 1990s. Many questions indicated demand for Linux versions of Microsoft's...