Monthly Archives: August 2004
Spotting Phish and Phighting Back
It was only a matter of time before the authors of phishing attacks became more clever. Ive always been disappointed, in a perverse way,...
Online Ticket Vendor Set to Scale with Oracle on Linux
Online ticket vendor StubHub Inc. fits the description of a typical company thats running its Oracle database on Linux: Its cutting-edge, it doesnt want...
Channels Pose Challenge for Data Management
In its race with archrival Office Depot Inc., Staples Inc. is tackling a problem that retailers in many markets are facing: coordination of a...
SAP Taps Former Siebel Exec for CRM Group
SAP AG announced Monday that it has hired former Siebel Systems Inc. executive Patrick Bakey to head up sales operations for its North American...
Oracles Rocha: Linux Kernel Ready to Rock Databases
Oracle executive vice president Mike Rocha will have a lot to brag about when he gets up to give his LinuxWorld keynote Tuesday in...
Kattoon: High-Tech Shoplifting
Read this weeks Spencer column.
Linux Makes Its Desktop Move at LinuxWorld
SAN FRANCISCO—What can you expect from this edition of LinuxWorld? Well, not a suggestion from Sun Microsystems Jonathan Schwartz, as some had anticipated, that...
Bottom Ten List: Worst of the Laptops
This weeks column is in a way an exercise in futility, since information about long-gone laptops is scarce. We need a publicly maintained resource—such...
Unisys Brings Linux to High-End Systems
Unisys Corp. is bringing Linux to its ES7000 line of Intel Corp.-based systems.
At the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco Monday, Unisys announced that it...
Sun, Novell to Merge?
Sun Microsystems Inc. is considering making an attempt to acquire Novell Inc., a move that would have enormous repercussions for competitor IBM.
In an interview...