The European Commission opened an in-depth investigation into Oracle's planned $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Thursday, citing concerns about the deal's effect on competition in the market for databases.
Oracle on Tuesday is launching version 11g Release 2 of its database, about two years after the initial version hit the market.
Oracle has apparently raised the cost of some management options for its flagship database by 40 percent, according to an official price list dated July 1.
Data warehousing vendor Greenplum on Monday rolled out its "Enterprise Data Cloud" initiative, a long-term product and methodology strategy meant to further the idea of "self-service" data warehousing.