Monthly Archives: December 2003
Macworld Expo Primed for Enterprise
After a dispute between the producer of Macworld Expo and star attraction Apple Computer Inc. rattled visitors and exhibitors at the summer edition of...
Contract Watch: RFID and Voice over IP: Finally for Real?
Everybodys writing and reading about the promise and pitfalls of RFID (radio frequency identification). But is anybody actually making money designing RFID solutions?The answer...
Dvorak: Fixing Comdex
Comdex is broken. I suspect this happened because of a combination of changing ownership, lost vision, and pent-up resentment of the show that has...
Checklist for Junior DBAs
Thomas Cox, author of The Database Administration Maturity model and The Oracle Workgroup Server Handbook, provides a daily checklist to help newbie DBAs avoid...
Oracle Small Business Suite for E-Commerce Is Bringing Joy to Onliner Retailers
Hundreds of online retailers have reported improved 2003 holiday sales thanks to their use of Oracle Small Business Suite, a dynamic-database-driven Web store licensed...
Of Dying Viruses and Dangerous Xmas Cards
While antivirus vendors have reported several new viruses and malicious attackers in the past week, we have not seen any new large scale outbreaks....
XP SP2 Beta 1: Now Available on MSDN
A quick update from your Service Pack tracker: After a false alarm last week, Microsoft has now made available to its MSDN subscribers the...
Mills Mulls Microsoft
IBM generated $13 billion in enterprise software revenues last year. So, when Steve Mills, senior VP and group executive with IBM Software Group, talks,...
Apple Patches Mac OS X Security Hole
Apple Computer Inc. issued a patch Monday fixing several security holes in Mac OS X, including one issue that could allow a malicious user...
MPC Delivers—Quietly
As individual customers, we often focus our attention on high-profile companies, the ones with the flashiest designs or coolest offerings. For large organizations, however,...