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Oracle President Safra Catz concedes that the public perceives the company as “kind of whacky or annoying.” Shes also dismayed at how CEO Larry Ellison is regarded—namely, as brash and outspoken. That matters to Catz because although shes president, Ellison is still the head honcho, and Catz views her role as that of promoting Ellisons […]

“I guarantee you our company will have the most secure software in the world. We may also have the most popular, so it is the most attacked. Were learning from all those attacks. Some days the only thing I can be happy with on the security front is that were getting smarter fast.” — Microsoft […]

Microsoft is readying a new tool that is designed to connect Microsoft Office applications to back-end enterprise systems. The tool, called the “Information Bridge Framework,” or IBF, will debut at the companys Tech Ed 2004 conference in San Diego next week, sources said. IBF is designed to connect Web services to the Office client with […]

Integration and security will be the watchwords at Microsofts annual Tech Ed 2004 conference, which will kick off Monday in San Diego. The Microsoft brass will be on tap to talk up the benefits of “integrated innovation” (whether or not they actually use the companys favorite catch phrase). For example, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer as […]

The history of UNIX and its various children and grandchildren has been in the news recently as a result of a book from the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution. Since I was involved in part of this history, I feel I have an obligation to set the record straight and correct some extremely serious errors. But […]

NEW YORK—Theres more to search than devising the perfect algorithm. Two of the newer kids on the search block—Microsoft and Amazons A9 subsidiary—shared their visions for the future of search during their Thursday keynote addresses at the World Wide Web conference here. Neither executive was willing to discuss near-term products or strategies. Microsoft Corp. is […]

Counterpane Internet Security Inc. this week unveiled a suite of services that incorporates managed security monitoring and intrusion detection, among other functions. The suites security monitoring hinges on a real-time intrusion-detection appliance that works at the perimeter of a customers network to collect, sort, correlate and analyze data from that companys firewall. The suite, dubbed […]

NetIQ Corp. on this week announced its Security Management Suite, which integrates its security products so they can be used more seamlessly to address a broader number of security issues facing enterprises. The suite combines NetIQ Security Manager, NetIQ Vulnerability Manager and NetIQ Patch Manager. “Enabling an agile, closed-loop approach to managing security is a […]

Yahoo Inc. this week released standard that would embed outgoing messages with an encrypted digital signature matched to a signature on the server computer that sends the message. The technique, if widely adopted, would prevent spammers from hiding unwanted messages behind legitimate e-mail addresses. Yahoos DomainKeys, first announced last December, is one of several attempts […]

CIOs and IT managers are most concerned about spam and viruses when it comes to enterprise messaging systems, according a survey from Ferris Research. At this months Enterprise Messaging Decisions conference, David Ferris, principal analyst at Ferris Research, said other concerns include compliance regulations, Microsofts pricing policies and denial of service (DoS) attacks. The survey […]

How do you explain Real Simple Syndication (RSS) to 100 CEOs, some of whom are barely comfortable checking their own e-mail? Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates found a way, as part of his keynote that kicked off the companys eighth annual CEO summit taking place in Redmond over the next two days. The summit was closed […]

Calypso Wireless Inc. this week said it is negotiating with a design manufacturer about its technology that enables seamless hand-offs between cellular and Wi-Fi networks. Calypso has not named the company that it described as a “major” manufacturer. The companys recently-granted patent enables devices to automatically detect which wireless networks are available and switch between […]