Software Development Laboratories, the precursor to Oracle, is founded in 1977 by Larry Ellison (right), Bob Miner (left) and Ed Oates. A more generic name for an IT company would have been hard to ...

In the wake of a rise of a variety of so-called NoSQL databases, there’s no doubt that data management has become more complex. But the one surprising thing is how constant the use of SQL has been.

Oracle is clinging to the top spot in the multibillion-dollar database software market, despite mounting pressure from IBM and Microsoft, according to preliminary 2002 market share numbers released ...

Panorama Software, a provider of proactive business intelligence (BI) solutions, has announced the release of NovaView 6.2, the newest version of its flagship suite of web-enabled BI applications.

Microsoft has an unfortunate history of inventing amazing new technologies and then getting left in the dust. Microsoft had smartphones before Apple, and e-readers before Amazon, but never made a dent ...