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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…
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Campus Brawl: Oracle vs. PeopleSoft at Stanford
It was the 1990s. A boom time, at least in technology. And Stanford University was eager to dump its 20-year-old mainframe software and move to the latest financial and human-resources systems from Oracle and PeopleSoft. The prestigious institution, located in the heart of Silicon Valley, enjoys access to the best and the brightest minds in…
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Oracle Trial Focuses on DOJ’s ‘Big Three’ Theory
SAN FRANCISCO—Testimony in the Department of Justice antitrust trial against Oracle zeroed in on the government’s key theory that PeopleSoft Inc. is one of only three companies that compete in the global market for high-end enterprise application software. Richard Bergquist, PeopleSoft Inc.’s chief technology officer and the company’s only fellow, testified that SAP AG and…
