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Oracle patches DB, apps

Oracle on Tuesday delivered 41 patches--including two that are rated the highest risk--for a wide range of products. According to the Oracle security team blog: This Critical Patch Update CPU addresses a total of 41 vulnerabilities affecting Oracle Database Server, Oracle Application Express, Oracle Application Server,...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Risk Matrix, Databases, Enterprise Software, Application Servers, Middleware, Software, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-15

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Portfolio Accounting Lab 0.94 (Windows)

Include portfolio accounting reports like performance / position / gain loss / cash ledger report. Super research functionality: show the detailed calculation steps for every calculated data in this application and introducing rating system to evaluate trade timing. More than 10 report charts including correlation matrix, risk reward, account /...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Portfolio Accounting Lab, Security

Software downloads 2009-09-24

Oracle drops critical database server patch bundle

Oracle has dropped the first quarterly critical patch update for 2009 -- with patches for 41 vulnerabilities in a wide range of database server products. The January 2009 CPU includes 20 new security fixes for the company's flagship database product lines, 4 new security fixes for the...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Database Server, Vulnerability, Storage, Databases, Security, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-01-13

The 'Social Media' Conundrum

I'm fascinated by '30's depression era attempts to foster business innovation, not least because of the financial challenges that seem likely to dominate our coming years. Surprisingly I've found The Rotary International Club is in many ways a precursor to the looser social media movement which has been a feature...

Tags: Marketing, Social Media, Brian, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Exclusive: A robot with a biological brain

Exclusive: A robot with a biological brainThe begining of the Cylon race? nt:(probably meant "you're" funnyDoesnt' change my opinion at all.Well, if this isn't the most immoral thing ever...it's gotta be kinda close.Cool but. could open a can of worms later...Did anyone else get a chill up the back of...

Tags: Robots, biological brain, robot

Discussion threads 2008-08-13

Oracle patches DB, apps

Oracle patches DB, appsOracle Critical Patch Update Risk Matrix & CVSSHi Larry! This is Eric Maurice of Oracle. An important document for Oracle customers, the Critical Patch Update CPU Advisory lists vulnerabilities addressed in the CPU as well as provides other information related to the patches (affected platforms,...

Tags: SECURITY, Common Vulnerability Scoring System, vulnerability, Oracle Corp., Critical Patch Update, matrice, CVSS 2.0, severity

Discussion threads 2008-04-16

Questioning IT

Questioning ITSome grammarYou have quite the run-on sentence (Basically if your organization ... — skills mismatch disaster.)You also need to remove negative words like fail (Windows skills don't carry forward to Linux, mainframe skills cause Solaris to fail.), and replace them with "pleasant sounding euphamisms" like "have difficulty" or "be...

Tags: Corporate governance, Strategy, information technology, corporate board, Enron Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-04-11

Nerac Case Study: Cellular Bioengineering Inc.

In order for CBI to make strategic go-forward decisions on its Neural Matrix Chip technology, Mr. Chinn and his colleagues required critical research relating to its intellectual property development, competitors and possible future uses for the technology itself. Make the wrong decision, and the company ran the risk of patent...

Tags: Patent Infringement, Decision, Nerac, Intellectual Property, Research & Development, Business Operations

Case studies 2008-04-10

Swarming around in HiveLive

Does anyone need another enterprise collaboration tool for helping get closer to the customer? How about if you had a collection of tools in one space that are people centric rather than task or functionally bound? This is the set-up for looking at HiveLive, a vendor...

Tags: Community, Swarming, HiveLive, Productivity, Groupware, Blogging, Wiki, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-03-31

Missile+strikes+ailing+U.S.+spy+satellite

Missile+strikes+ailing+U.S.+spy+satelliteArms test?Well of course it was silly. Hey, its no fun owning such cool toys if you can't play with them now and then. ;-)I'm shockedChina and Russia called it an arms test? Shocking.Missile Shield.A missile shield I believe is the practical use of this tech. An...

Tags: ICBM, Aegis, VLS, missile

Discussion threads 2008-02-21

IT Project Management

View Available Dates and LocationsLearn the fundamentals and best practices of project management methodology as applied to IT initiatives, and practice and master the skills you need to deliver IT projects on time, within budget, and to specification. Examine all aspects of IT projects, including hardware, software,...

Tags: Dallas, Washington, Information Technology, IT Project Management, Strategy, Project Management, Management, It Operations, It service Management

Training 2008-01-01

Applied Project Management

View Available Dates and Locations This project simulation course combines lectures, hands-on activities, and individual and team assignments to let you experience managing a project from original concept to archiving the project documents. You'll walk through a complete project management life cycle, including initiating, planning, ...

Tags: Team, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Team Management, Strategy, Change Management, It Operations, It service Management, Management

Training 2008-01-01

Same old - Same old - and we're not learning from it

Same old - Same old - and we're not learning from itOf course there is no need to "process" data at allThe data processing approach is based on the idea that you take some input from a file or files, transform it somehow, and write the output to other files.As...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, inference

Discussion threads 2007-09-17

INTERVIEW: Paul Dandurand (CEO, PIEmatrix) on Project Failure and IT Governance

At the recent Enterprise 2.0 Conference, I was quietly eating essential nutrients cookies and coffee, when Paul Dandurand, founder and CEO of PIEmatrix, introduced himself. Paul’s company is developing a process management and governance solution for IT projects, and he’s no stranger to this field. Before starting PIEmatrix, Paul co-founded...

Tags: Risk, Project strategy, Interview, Enterprise2conf

Blog posts 2007-06-25

Bob Muglia: Microsoft changing its approach to interoperability

"What has changed is the way we think about how we work across the industry in terms of providing interoperable solutions. Our focus has shifted over the last few years." Those are the words of Bob Muglia, Microsoft's senior vice president of servers and tools.He was speaking at the Interop...

Tags: General, IT Management, Microsoft, Open Source

Blog posts 2007-05-23

SOA consolidation takes on new stripes, while extending to open source-oriented vendors

IONA Technologies purchase today of LogicBlaze -- while directed at the open-source development and business models for SOA -- also further demonstrates the prevailing diversity of SOA consolidation activities. There seem to be as many variations on the SOA consolidation theme nowadays as there are vendors lining up to provide...

Tags: Sybase, SOA architect, SOA, SaaS, Progress Software, JBoss, IONA, Cape Clear, Apache, Wall Street, Sun Microsystems, Software Infrastructure, SOA Governance, Red Hat, Oracle, Open Source, Microsoft, IBM, HP, Enterprise Java, Celtix

Blog posts 2007-04-10

WEP - Gone in Sixty seconds!

WEP - Gone in Sixty seconds!Better than nothing[i]In my book, sixty seconds worth of protection does not classify as "better than nothing".[/i]Of course it's better than nothing. Without it, my neighbors might not realize that they're connecting to my line instead of their own.Since the 802.11 AP is on...

Tags: Network security, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, SECURITY, WEP, network

Discussion threads 2007-04-05

In 'Second Life,' the ring of revolution?

In 'Second Life,' the ring of revolution?OMG!Virtual people blown up by virtual bombs!Beats real people blown up by real bombs.Maybe they could do it like they did in that old Star Trek episode....Wow. The Perfect Place for Bush and Alberto GonzalesThis is where we should send Bush and Gonzales. ...

Tags: Virtual reality, physical reality, Second Life

Discussion threads 2007-03-05

Yet another 'critical' Firefox flaw

Less than 24 hours before the scheduled release of Firefox 2.0.0.2 as a high-priority browser refresh, a new "critical" vulnerability has been reported by Polish hacker Michal Zalewski.Zalewski, who appears to be running an unofficial MOFFB month of Firefox bugs project, released a demo of a memory corruption issue that...

Tags: Patch Watch, Zero-day attacks, Microsoft, Browsers, Vulnerability research, Responsible disclosure, Spam and Phishing, Spyware and Adware, Exploit code, Viruses and Worms, Data theft, Open source, Mozilla, Google, Firefox

Blog posts 2007-02-22

What the UAC 'hole' is really about

Fellow blogger Ryan Naraine had a blog "Hacker, Microsoft duke it out over Vista design flaw" where he reported on a disagreement between elite researcher Joanna Rutkowska (Singapore-based Coseinc) and elite programmer Mark Russinovich formerly Sysinternals and acquired by Microsoft. Ive spoken with both of these people and...

Tags: Desktop, Security, Vista

Blog posts 2007-02-14