Microsoft joins Swiss vendor to push SQL Server in banks
Microsoft and Swiss banking systems provider Temenos have joined forces to push SQL Server in the banking sector. Read more...

Oracle defends planned Sun deal at EC hearing

Study: MySQL use to drop under Oracle ownership

Sybase to rent analytics Web app for high-speed stock trades, says CEO

IBM buys database security firm Guardium

EU gives Oracle extra time to respond to Sun inquiry

Microsoft adds access controls for SQL Azure online database

Informatica launches update of data integration platform

EU issues objections to Oracle's Sun acquisition

EU issues objections to Oracle's Sun acquisition

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First look: Amazon RDS gives you a MySQL server in the cloud
Amazon's Relational Database Service provides an easy escalator into the cloud for existing MySQL applications

Google Public DNS, Cisco gets Tandberg
Google is getting into the DNS resolution business with a new service out in an experimental version, while Microsoft also is experimenting with a maps service (take that Google). In other news this week, questions continue to be bandied about regarding Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems, which is still stalled by European regulators.

What if Oracle's buyout of Sun falls through?
Not likely to survive on its own, Sun would need a new buyer for itself or its technologies

InfoWorld's top 10 emerging enterprise technologies
2009's up-and-coming technologies for business that will have the greatest impact in years to come

Guarding against database anti-forensics
Database hacking has gone mainstream and is becoming harder to detect because of the increasingly sophisticated anti-forensic procedures hackers use to cover their tracks.

EU issues objections to Oracle's Sun acquisition
The European Commission has issued its formal "statement of objections" over Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Sun said in a regulatory filing Monday.

ComicBase Free
For years, ComicBase had only an expensive, professional version of their comic book database and collection manager. Recently, they moved into the free space with ComicBase Free, offering a full-featured, but also stripped-down, free version.

Up-to-the-Minute Medicine
MIQS, winner of the 2009 Computerworld Honors award for business, combined electronic medical records with a real-time reporting engine that allows doctors to track trends in a patient's medical history.

Microsoft and EU settle, phishing scams, busts
Capping our list of top IT news stories this week, Microsoft and the European Commission reached accord on the ongoing antitrust case against the company. While this will free up some room in future top-news lists, we expect that we'll continue to have no end of bad news related to phishing scams, of which there was plenty this week as well. Thankfully, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison added some levity to the mix, though his brand of joking undoubtedly fell flat at Salesforce.com.

iPhone 3GS heats up, DOJ takes aim at Google
The iPhone scored quite a few headlines related to overheating problems with the 3GS this week. Depending on whom you believe, those issues are either real, exaggerated, the fault of users or some combination of the three. Otherwise, as warm weather takes hold above the equator and Bostonians contemplate whether it's time to brush up on our ark-building skills (rain, rain go away), we find this week's IT news offerings cover a broad range.

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