The market for database server software, seen as a barometer of overall software market health, grew slightly last year, fueled in part by Linux, new research shows. Mike Ricciuti joined CNET in 1996.

A sales database is a computer software program used to store information about prospects and customers. Companies and salespeople have used them since the technology emerged in the latter part of the ...

MongoDB stock jolted more than 13% higher late Monday after the company's Q3 results that easily surpassed views.

Oracle reported a 16 percent rise in first-quarter profits on Tuesday, citing strong demand for its database software. In the fiscal first quarter ended Aug. 31, Oracle posted $509 million in net ...

CEO Larry Ellison, in a conference call with financial analysts Wednesday, also took time to crow about the next-generation Exadata Database Machine the company unveiled Tuesday, citing it as proof of ...

DiscoverOrg, a Vancouver, Wash.-based marketing and sales intelligence startup, has acquired Boston area startup Zoominfo to strengthen its B2B offerings. The two companies both sell enterprise ...

Software GmbH, the holding entity of the Software AG group, is announcing the closing of sales of Alfabet and Cumulocity, following the entity’s previous divestments of webMethods, StreamSets, and ...

The Gartner report credited IBM's acquisition of database vendor Informix in December of 2000 as the decisive move that pushed Big Blue to the number one spot for database management systems (DBMS).

Snowflake, which provides cloud-based SQL database software and warehousing, filed on Monday with the SEC to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering. However this is likely a ...

The results are in, and it appears that corporate customers are spending more money on back-end business software. Preliminary results from IDC's annual survey of relational-database market share ...