Monthly Archives: December 2003
Spam Costs $20 Billion Each Year in Lost Productivity
New York consulting firm Basex blamed unsolicited e-mail for nearly $20 billion in lost time and expenses worldwide. Spam within the enterprise can cost...
Symantec Wins $3 Million Judgment In Software Piracy Suit
Symantec Corp. has been granted a judgment totaling $3 million in a suit against a software firm accused of selling counterfeit copies of Symantec...
Cyber Blackmail Wave Targets Office Workers
Cyber extortionists are shaking down office workers, threatening to delete computer files or install pornographic images on their work PCs unless they pay a...
Looking Into the Crystal Ball for Oracles New Year
Oracle poured buckets of cash into hyping grid technology during the past few months. While 10g features are getting rave reviews, Oracle users who...
Database Bests and Worsts of 2003
A few of the winners of 2003: SAP AGs robust sales and stock price; Microsofts extensive list of updates, debuts (Microsoft CRM) and betas;...
How to Cope With Oracle Trigger Lag
Many developers run into triggers that dont see mutating ORA-04091 table owner.table_name errors in Oracle. Often, its caused by trigger code that looks at...
How to Use Global Variables in SQL Server 2000 DTS
There are various ways of using global variables in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 DTS Designer tasks. This article, one in a series, looks into...
Security Highlights and Lowlights of 2003
The consensus among security professionals is solid: 2003 was a lousy year for computer security. And the news wont be much better in the...
On Beyond Internet Time
If Web services will be the model for a majority of new applications in the next few years, as Gartner research released this fall...
The NetJets Set
They know what they want. Theyll pay to get it. The secret of how one airplane service profits by catering to the needs, wants...