SentryOne gets pragmatic
SentryOne has acquired Pragmatic Works Software. This is unusually synergistic and non-overlapping.
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.
Informix revived
Informix is targeting time-series based (instrumented) applications
Sybase and SAP: the unanswered questions
There are major questions about information management in SAP's acquisition of Sybase