In brief: Sybase introduces software to analyze RFID data

Sybase last week introduced software aimed at helping companies analyze and integrate data collected using RFID. Sybase’s RFID Enterprise 2.0 offers device and network management capabilities, and also can help users integrate RFID data into an existing data architecture. The software supports an Eclipse-based integrated development environment and a core runtime engine for event routing, business activity monitoring and message transformation. Sybase would not reveal pricing details. Other software developers such as IBM, Microsoft and Oracle have introduced or are working on RFID data management products.

MySQL AB has acquired a small Web application technology company, and in the process has hired its founder, Jim Starkey, a noted database software architect. MySQL said it acquired Netfrastructure, a privately held company that makes tools and server software for building Web-based applications, for an undisclosed sum. Starkey, who was Netfrastructure’s founder and president, becomes a senior software architect at MySQL, the company said. Before Netfrastructure, Starkey founded Interbase and developed its relational database of the same name. Interbase Software was eventually acquired by Borland, which released the software’s code to the open source community. That led to the creation of the Firebird open source database project, to which Starkey was a contributor.

HP said last week it has integrated software from its acquisition of Peregrine Systems into its own line of asset management software. Peregrine’s AssetCenter has been combined with the company’s OpenView Service Desk, software that monitors various systems running on a network, HP said. The combination allows the monitoring of assets including software, PCs and mainframes, HP said.