Oracle on Tuesday is launching version 11g Release 2 of its database, about two years after the initial version hit the market.
The new release is the product of some 1,500 developers and 15 million hours of testing, according to Mark Townsend, vice president of database product management.
more at http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/171192/oracle_11g_r2_makes_its_debut.html
Uncertainty about Sun Microsystems Inc.'s future appears to have contributed to serious erosion in the company's market share for computer servers in the latest quarter, according to new data being released Wednesday.
The latest numbers from market-research firm IDC show that Sun's market share in servers stood at 10 percent in the second quarter, down more than a full percentage point from the same period last year.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/technology/sns-ap-us-tec-oracle-sun,0,5176513.story
Microsoft announced the rebranding of SQL Services as SQL Azure in the first half of July 2009, a move that was accompanied by the transition of the SQL Data Services under the Microsoft SQL Azure Database brand. It wasn’t until mid-August 2009 that SQL Azure went live, with Microsoft starting to hand out invitations to the private testing of the Community Technology Preview development milestone. Now, the SQL Azure Migration Wizard is available, to help customers migrate local SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 databases into SQL Azure.
Version 0.2.0 of SQL Azure Migration Wizard went live on CodePlex on August 31, 2009, and has been labeled an Alpha release, indicating that the solution is still in the early stages of the development process. The project is available under a Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL), which is a Microsoft open-source license.
more at http://news.softpedia.com/news/SQL-Azure-Migration-Wizard-Available-120645.shtml
