* How best to patch: the final debate * Oracle announces quarterly patching schedule * ANTs database aims to speed up SQL transactions * Study finds e-voting irregularities in Florida * Network World Fusion Radio: IBM's World Community Grid * Today on Layer 8 * This week’s top 5 stories
With patches coming from all corners of the IT world (see Oracle news below) it’s tough to get your arms around it all. If you don’t, the consequences could be disastrous. You still have a chance to really get into all the issues, as Friday is the last day of our Virtual Showdown on the topic. Get the answers you need from our experts. How best to patch: the final debate http://www.nwfusion.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1964?net
With patches coming from all corners of the IT world (see Oracle news below) it’s tough to get your arms around it all. If you don’t, the consequences could be disastrous. You still have a chance to really get into all the issues, as Friday is the last day of our Virtual Showdown on the topic. Get the answers you need from our experts.
How best to patch: the final debate
https://www.nwfusion.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1964?net
Oracle announces quarterly patching schedule
Once boasting that its software was “unbreakable” (no, I’m not ready to let that one go yet), Oracle is now getting a patching schedule in order. While Microsoft now has monthly software updates, Oracle will stick to a quarterly schedule.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1118orpatch.html?net
ANTs database aims to speed up SQL transactions
ANTs Software this week released the latest version of its high-performance SQL database designed to offload key transaction loads from traditional databases such as Oracle or Sybase.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1118ants.html?net
Study finds e-voting irregularities in Florida
Voting irregularities in three Florida counties that used electronic voting machines may have awarded as many as 260,000 votes to President George Bush in this month’s election, according to researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1119studyfinds.html?net
Network World Fusion Radio: IBM’s World Community Grid
IBM is looking to harness the power of the millions of Internet-connected PCs around the globe to work on important research projects (i.e., protein folding analysis) as part of its new World Community Grid initiative. We talk with Robin Willner, IBM’s director of corporate community relations, about the Grid, how users can get involved and what projects will be tackled.
https://www.nwfusion.com/research/2004/1118radio.html?net
Today on Layer 8, where we say please be kind, rewind:
Gates – most spammed man in the world?; blogging hits prime time; India sets up city to steal jobs; and woman wins lawsuit against online matchmaker; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.
https://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/layer8/?net
This week’s top 5 stories so far:
1. Wireless LAN product barrage on tap
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/111504wlan.html?net
2. Desktop search engines threaten SSL VPN security
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/111504googledesktop.html?net
3. Competition heats up for key piece of ‘Net infrastructure
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/111504dotnet.html?net
4. Sun takes page from Linux playbook with Solaris 10
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1116suntakes.html?net
5. Cisco to buy mgmt. start-up, with eye toward network unity
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1117cisbuy.html?net
