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- Salesforce acquires InStranet; Will take it SaaS and better target call centers
- Salesforce.com said Wednesday that it will acquire InStranet, which provides knowledge management software for call centers, and integrate its technology with its existing CRM customer service and support offering. Simply put, Salesforce.com is acquiring traditional enterprise software for $31.5 million and turning it into a service in an effort to...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Cable: Natural born monopoly?
- The second quarter results are out and it appears that the cable industry is winning share in broadband, phone and TV connections and handily thwarting encroachment by the likes of Verizon and AT&T. In fact, TV and broadband service is meant to be a monopoly and cable appears to be...
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Oracle Workshop's Support for Java EE 5 Web Standards: Learn How to Develop Java EE Web Applications, Using Oracle Workshop for WebLogic
- For a long time, J2EE seemed a powerful, complex technology. If one took the time to fully understand it, however, one would have discovered ingenious solutions for building scalable component-based multi-tier enterprise applications. Java EE 5 keeps the power of the old J2EE, but the new version is much simpler...
- White papers 2008-08-01
- Oracle ships emergency workaround for zero-day flaw
- Oracle ships emergency workaround for zero-day flawDoes anybody know?Where the exploit runs? On the Apache web tier where mod_wl sits OR on the app server WebLogic tier? Does mod_wl just package up the exploit and let WL run it? Or does this just allow for RCE with...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-30
- Oracle ships emergency workaround for zero-day flaw
- For the first time since the introduction of its quarterly Critical Patch Update process in 2005, Oracle has released an emergency alert to offer mitigation for a zero-day vulnerability that's been published on the Internet. The emergency workaround, available here, addresses an unpatched vulnerability that's remotely exploitable...
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Firefox 3.1 alpha 1 code freeze is next Monday
- Firefox 3 has only recently shipped but the first public milestone for its successor is fast approaching. The Mozilla team is expecting that the code freeeze for alpha 1 of Firefox 3.1, code named Shiretoko, will be next Monday and that alpha 1 be available for early adopter testing on July 25....
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- On deck from Oracle: 45 critical database, server patches
- Database server giant Oracle plans to ship patches for a total of 45 security vulnerabilities on Thursday (July 17), bringing the vulnerability count for 2008 to a whopping 112. Since January 2006 this CPU included, Oracle has shipped fixes for a total of 572 vulnerabilities. ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- BEA-Oracle products assimilation roadmap analyzed, but what about the sales forces?
- BEA-Oracle products assimilation roadmap analyzed, but what about the sales forces?Good analysis - here's some other thoughtsWe are a big Oracle customer, not only ERP but also Oracle Application Server and SOA Suite. I put together my in depth thoughts on the product roadmap... http://webadminblog.com/index.php/2008/07/02/oracle-bea/In general I think it's...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-10
- News to know: Microsoft; Yahoo; Google; IT contractors
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Microsoft's search plan: It's about semantics and possibly for naught. Dennis Howlett: Powerset's smarts are Microsoft's gain Paul Miller: Powerset really does go to Microsoft... but for how much? Mary Jo Foley: Confirmed: Microsoft buys Powerset natural-language search...
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- McAfee S.P.A.M. experiment and more ridiculous HackerSafe failures
- Stay with me here readers, I'm stringing two stories about McAfee together here, a little out of the ordinary, so I hope it makes sense. If you aren't interested in the tech details of which there are very little, please do read for a good laugh. Network World reported...
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Oracle's BEA strategy: reassuring the market
- Oracle's BEA strategy: reassuring the marketWhat BEA has that Oracle doesn't?Natural consequences: Convert to Oracle or something else!
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Oracle's BEA strategy: reassuring the market
- Earlier today, Oracle outlined its strategy regarding the recently acquired BEA portfolio. If I hadn't known it was supposed to be a customer and partner webinar, I'd have thought we were listening to a more detailed re-run of the latest earnings call with Charles Philips talking...
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Connect to Your Legacy Code Using Oracle Service Bus New Features
- Prior to Version 3.0, the design of all Oracle Service Bus formerly BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Service Bus assets such as business services and proxy services took place in the Web-based console. In v3.0 one can still choose to use the console, but one can now also choose to design all...
- White papers 2008-07-01
- Time to blow up the software industry
- Vinnie Mirchandani's post, Call to Steve Jobs: Please reshape the enterprise software market was bound to get a reaction out of my Irregular chums. 70 reactions to be precise as at the time of writing this post. That's the number of posts to our Google Group on the topic with...
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Finjan uncovers half a gigabyte of stolen data on crimeware servers
- Finjan's Malicious Code Research Center has uncovered a half of gigabyte of stolen data from US Healthcare organizations and from a major airline on crimeware servers in Argentina and Malaysia. A representative of Finjan stated: "Hackers incorporated sophisticated attacks using crimeware toolkits, Trojans, and Command and...
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Kapow takes a jab at challenge of creating mashups from JavaScript and AJAX sources
- The Portal Content Edition, which enables companies to refurbish existing portal assets, has several enhancements to the web clipping technology for development and deployment of JSR-168 standards based portlets. It now provides the ability to make on-the-fly changes to clipping portlets that enhance portal functionality, while adding a portlet deployment...
- Blog posts 2008-06-14
- Why Internet companies are attractive takeover targets: They can't manage
- Are Internet companies so inefficient and clueless about management that have to be acquired? Lost in the commentary about Bernstein's "U.S. Internet -- The End of the Beginning" report, which concluded that Amazon and Google would be the dominant Internet duopoly, are the reasons why today's leading...
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Airport security part 2: TSA is failing us, let my associated ranting begin thusly
- I want to start out by saying that I take great personal risk of getting black listed before my flight to K.C. tomorrow morning, but I thought I'd talk about an article by Rafal Los on how the TSA is failing us again. This actually reminds me of an older article that...
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- OpenSUSE 11 RC1: The Mercedes-Benz to Ubuntu's Volkswagen
- 2008 will be a very good vintage for community end-user Linux distributions. So far, we've seen the release of Ubuntu 8.04, which is universally considered to be a major milestone release in usability and device compatibility, and one of the easiest distros to install. While not as widely lauded, we...
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- The panelist's nightmare
- The panelist's nightmareTuxedo and brown shoesThat pretty much sucks. What was that old "Lonesome George" Gobel quip to Johnny Carson from years back, after following Bob Hope and Dean Martin on the Tonight Show: "Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-22










