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Oracle Users Take Aim at High Costs, Security Silence
A growing number of Oracle users are not happy with what they’re getting. Why? The products cost too much. The products are suddenly springing security leaks. DBAs now have a god-awful amount of patches to install, and nobody told them they were coming or what they meant. Technical support has been outsourced and automated, meaning…
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It’s Final: No Wi-Fi In “Grantsdale” Chipset
Intel Corp. has decided not to enable the wireless access-point functionality in its Intel 915/925X “Grantsdale” chipset, a company spokesman confirmed Friday afternoon. Intel decided to phase out the once heavily-touted feature because of the prevalence of low-cost access points available from third parties, spokesman Dan Snyder said. Snyder called the move a business decision,…
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HP Axes Itanium Workstations
Hewlett-Packard Co. is discontinuing its line of Itanium-based workstations, saying demand from its customers is for x86 systems powered by processors with 64-bit extensions. The Palo Alto, Calif., company is discontinuing its one-way zx2000 and two-way zx6000 workstations, which were introduced in May 2003 and run on Intel Corp.’s Itanium 2 64-bit processors. HP will…
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Cisco’s New Offerings Enhance SAN Extensions
Companies that need to move storage data over long distances quickly and securely now have more options with the introduction of the MDS 9000 Multiprotocol Services Module and 9216i fabric switch from Cisco Systems Inc. The San Jose, Calif., company added both products to its Cisco MDS 9000 family of multilayer intelligent directors and fabric…
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Microsoft: Upgrade to XP or Else!
Well, well, well, it’s not as if I didn’t see this coming. If you and your customers aren’t using Windows XP SP2 and Internet Explorer 6 on your desktop, don’t expect Microsoft to keep you safe from the inevitable security hole. Microsoft had told developers earlier this year that it would port at least some…
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Microsoft Changes Its Tune on Porting SP2 Fixes
Microsoft has been reticent to commit publicly on how, when and whether it would make the browser-specific security fixes that it delivered as part of Windows XP Service Pack 2 available to users of older versions of Windows. But this week, the Redmond software vendor issued a definitive statement regarding its back-porting intentions. The decision:…
