Monthly Archives: February 2004
PeopleSoft Declines to Scrap With Oracle at Quest Users Group Conference
In an effort to answer customer concerns about the Oracle-PeopleSoft takeover, Quest, a non-profit J.D. Edwards users group, has invited both Oracle Corp. and...
Curious Programmers Face Legal Tangles with Leaked Windows Code
With portions of Microsoft Windows NT and 2000 source code running wild on the Internet, programmers are battling the temptation to peek at the...
The Return of the IBM PC Division
Im not a big fan of software programs spawned by hardware vendors, and to date IBM Corp. has done little to change my mind....
MS Source Code and the Lesson of Pandoras Box
Eventually, everything secret leaks. The fact that you ate the last cookie, that you didnt take out the trash, or that you looked at...
PC-Mac PasswordVault 2.0
Lava Softwares PC-Mac PasswordVault 2.0 stores username and password information for Web sites in a secure but easily-accessible software vault. Users need only remember...
Sometimes Free Is Still Too Expensive
Remember the Cue:Cat? A handheld scanner designed to read squished-up bar codes in magazines, truckloads of them were given away by Radio Shack back...
Windows Source Leak Traces Back to Mainsoft
BetaNews has learned that originated not from Microsoft, but from long-time Redmond partner Mainsoft.The leaked code includes 30,915 files and was apparently removed from...
PeopleSoft Deal Still Alive and Kicking
Although the U.S. Department of Justices Antitrust Division reportedly opposes Oracle Corp.s proposed takeover of PeopleSoft Inc., the deal is far from dead and...
Intel Developer Forum Preps for Era of Terabytes, Teraflops
At its semiannual Developer Forum on Tuesday Intel Corp. will shift gears into the "Tera Era" of computing. In this case, "tera" refers to...
Source Code Leak Offers Novel Security Test
A frequent pitch of the open-source movement—bordering on a cliche—is that closed-source companies, most famously Microsoft, are wrong in thinking that the unavailability of...