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The two vendors offer Reliable Datagram sockets to help meet the growing demands for faster processing in the data centre. A product line manager discusses how it jives with Infiniband

Sybase Inc. is considering how it could make some parts of its database software available under an open-source license to customers and developers in China, a company executive said Wednesday.

Oracle Corp. has agreed to acquire business applications vendor Siebel Systems Inc. in a deal valued at approximately US$5.85 billion, or a net value of $3.61 billion taking into account Siebel's cash reserves, the companies announced Monday. The deal marks Oracle's latest step in its bid to remake itself as a global business applications powerhouse, following the closure of its $10.3 billion acquisition of PeopleSoft Inc. at the start of the year.

Oracle Corp. acknowledged the existence of multiple security holes in its database software Tuesday and said it would issue an alert to customers shortly. The U.K. security expert who found the holes criticized Oracle's conduct, saying that it has been sitting on patches that would fix the holes for about two months.

He was a man whose passion for IT was rivalled only by his commitment to making the technology more accessible. He was a man whose leadership skills inspired new ways of thinking about the role of computers. But most importantly, James Wesley (Wes) Graham was the pioneer who put the University of Waterloo, Ont. (UW) on the technology roadmap.

Oracle Corp. is patching four security flaws in its database software and two in its application server, the most serious of which could allow an attacker to take complete control of a system running the software, experts warned

Oracle Corp. is patching four security flaws in its database software and two in its application server, the most serious of which could allow an attacker to take complete control of a system running the software, experts warned.

Microsoft Corp. is clearing the fog around its move into 64-bit computing. At the Windows .Net Server DevCon conference in Seattle last week, Microsoft devoted much of its time to a new 64-bit Windows release and accompanying applications, which are due to reach customers early next year.