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Now that the Oracle 10g database is finally out in Unix and Linux versions and the Windows version is on its way, DBAs are hot to get their hands on its automation features and manageability. Read the full story at SearchOracle.

Robert Dutkowsky, chairman, president and CEO of J.D. Edwards until PeopleSofts purchase of the company last year, this week will take the reins at blade server maker Egenera. Dutkowsky will be named chairman, president and CEO of the 4-year-old company, replacing Vern Brownell, who founded Egenera in 2000. Brownell will stay on as executive vice […]

Microsoft Group Vice President Jeff Raikes says its time to move beyond the industry debate over whether IT offers companies a competitive advantage. Instead, Raikes says, its time to question how companies measure the impact of IT. Raikes and executives from Microsoft, Accenture, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Xerox, as well as academic, government and private-industry […]

Microsofts main Web site last week showed no ill effects from the scheduled denial-of-service attack generated by computers infected by the MyDoom.B virus. Machines infected by the less common of the two MyDoom viruses were programmed to begin flooding Microsofts site with HTTP GET requests and to continue doing so through March 1. But according […]

One PeopleSoft shareholder, Donald Luskin, is mad at hell at the company for spoiling his chances of selling his stock to Oracle for the newly upped bid offer of $26 per share. Read the full story at Smart Money.

PeopleSoft on Monday advised shareholders to reject Oracles sweetened takeover offer, saying that the $9.4 billion still doesnt reflect the companys true value. Read the full story at Cyber India Online.

In a phone interview Friday with Robin Roblimo Miller, Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) CEO Stu Cohen said, “As Linux continues to grow, Microsoft will port some of their applications to run on Linux.” There has been speculation about this for years, and this is still speculation, but Cohen is head of an organization that […]

Alera Technologies introduced on Wednesday at the PMA 2004 show in Las Vegas its the DVD/CD Digital Photo Copy Station. The device combines a memory card reader and DVD/CD writer. The company said the devices supports a variety of card formats, including Compact Flash Type I and II, SD, MMC, SM, MS, and MS Pro […]

FireTide Inc., a company that makes mesh-infrastructure products that work with third party Wi-Fi access points, last week announced a partnership with Cranite Systems Inc., a company that makes security solutions for networks. Cranite makes WirelessWall, a software security solution which is comprised of a policy server, access controller for each subnet of the network, […]

Red Hat Inc. will ship an enhanced security model in the next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, due out in 2005, will include support for Security-Enhanced Linux (SE Linux), according to a spokeswoman from the company. SE Linux is a project funded by the National Security Agency (NSA) to […]

Internet service providers now supply a range of tools designed to protect their customers against the Internets nagging headaches. Pop-up ad blockers stop the assault of advertising, spam filters try to shunt the junk e-mail aside, antivirus software defuses viruses arriving in e-mail, parental controls stop kids from stumbling into obscene Web sites and spyware […]

The Federal Bureau of Investigations electronic surveillance experts worry that VoIP will become the communications mode of choice for criminals and terrorists unless the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) steps in. The public relations problem for VoIP providers is to not appear unpatriotic or unwilling to comply with the spirit of the law while at the […]