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New Worm Spreads Via MSN Messenger
Anti-virus experts are watching a new worm that spreads through Microsoft Corp.’s MSN Messenger client. The worm is not harmful to infected machines and has infected only a few PCs at this point, according to an analysis by Trend Micro Inc. Known as Jitux, the worm is self-propagating and contains a link to a Web…
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New Symbol CEO Talks Strategy
For more than a year, Bill Nuti has been riding shotgun at Symbol Technologies Inc. Now, he’s finally in the driver’s seat as the company’s newly appointed CEO. Customers, partners and Symbol insiders applaud the move. And for good reason. Nuti joined Symbol as president and chief operating officer in July 2002, and has spent…
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Java Tools Community Effort Back on Track
The effort to build a tight-knit organization to support advancements in Java development is set to take off next month, and possibly as early as next week, sources said. The effort, initially reported in eWEEK and originally known as the Java Tools Community (JTC), will feature several leading Java tool vendors working to link their…
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MySQL CEO Mickos Addresses Critics, Looks to Open-Source Growth
Few can expect any open source-related news to escape its share of both withering scorn and good insight from venues such as Slashdot. This premise held true when a recent, independent study done by Reasoning Inc. claimed that open source database MySQL was some 6 times cleaner than comparable proprietary code. With the comments on…
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MySQL: The Dissing and the Defense
Here’s a select sampling of what Slashdot users had to say about the recent, independent study of MySQL code on the part of Reasoning Inc. To read the whole string, click here. Not only is it hard to define defect (and it is very obvious that some defects are worse than others), but this code…
