S/4HANA and AnyDB

Third party database providers are going to have some difficulty in persuading SAP that they can support S/4HANA

SAP ASE 16

SAP has just released version 16 of what used to be Sybase ASE. This release is very much focused on big data for OLTP.

IBM JSON

There's been some confusion about how exactly DB2 is supporting JSON: here's the lowdown

Oracle and Sun: winners and losers

Sun is a hardware company that has, historically, been rubbish at marketing and selling software. Oracle, on the other hand, is very good at selling software but has no experience as a hardware...