Oracle intends to release a free version of its database, a reaction to the growing competitive pressure from low-end open-source databases. The database heavyweight on Tuesday is expected to announce ...

Missouri State University’s information systems department and Web start-up Savvica Inc. don’t have a lot in common apart from tight budgets. In recent years, that would have likely meant choosing a ...

In this episode of eSpeaks, Jennifer Margles, Director of Product Management at BMC Software, discusses the transition from traditional job scheduling to the era of the autonomous enterprise. eSpeaks’ ...

During the second day keynote of the Microsoft BUILD conference in September, Satya Nadella, president of the Microsoft Server & Tools Business, announced that the Bing Translator API was available ...

How effective are free and open source data bases? For answers, we reviewed 6:: Microsoft SQL Server Express, PostgreSQL, Oracle's MySQL, MariaDB, Apache Derby and Firebird SQL. Free or open source ...

Databases are by no means an easy product category to understand. Many of the big players now offer free or "light" versions of their databases, but comparing them all is no easy task -- as we found ...

Hoping to appeal to smaller businesses and fend off competition from open-source rivals, Oracle plans to release a free version of its database software. The company has not made it official yet, but ...

Oracle Corp. is making the next version of its flagship database management system available free to developers under a new program announced today. Oracle Database 23c Free—Developer Release is ...

Oracle's database software is still widely used, but cloud computing has disrupted its business model. There's no doubt the company is losing mindshare among developers and start-ups. A free developer ...