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HP Preps Itanium-Powered Blades
Hewlett-Packard Co. is developing blade servers that will be powered by Intel Corp.’s Itanium chip, another push by the company to bring 64-bit capability to the dense form factor. The Palo Alto, Calif., company already is on track to roll out in the second half of the year a ProLiant blade server powered by Advanced…
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Oracle Trial: Customers, Integrators Bewail Competition Concerns
SAN FRANCISCO—At the ongoing trial here, the Department of Justice on Wednesday marched PeopleSoft customers and systems integrators into the witness box. The prosecutors hoped to demonstrate how the market for enterprise application software would lose its competitive vibrancy if Oracle was allowed to carry out its hostile buyout of PeopleSoft. Leading off in the…
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Stopping Spam Is Not Mission Impossible
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to stop spam from overwhelming your bandwidth and mail servers and overrunning your customers’ mailboxes. We have every faith that you and your anti-spam efforts will be successful. If you fail, we will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This message will self-destruct in five seconds…
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Internet Security Systems CTO Steps Down
Chris Klaus, the founder of Internet Security Systems, has decided to relinquish his role as chief technology officer, but is staying on with the company in the newly created position of chief security adviser. Chris Rouland, formerly the director of the X-Force security research team, is Klaus’ handpicked successor as CTO. Klaus founded Internet Security…
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IT and the Channel Do Matter
According to Harvard Business Review’s editor-at-large, Nicholas Carr, IT doesn’t matter. Since IT is ubiquitous, it has no strategic value or competitive advantage, only high cost and potential downside. Carr’s assumption is that scarcity is the essence strategic value. “You only gain an edge over rivals by having or doing something they can’t have or…
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Critical Flaw Uncovered in Oracle E-Business Suite, Applications
All Oracle Corp. Applications and most E-Business Suite customers are at high risk from multiple, critical SQL injection vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities were uncovered by Stephen Kost from the security firm Integrigy Corp. An alert put out by Integrigy last week described the flaw as being exploitable by a remote user who can send a specially…
