======================================================================== ROBERT X. CRINGELY http://www.infoworld.com ======================================================================== Monday, November 8, 2004
PEOPLESOFT STILL IN PLAY, GOP MAIL GOES ASTRAY By Robert X. Cringely(R) Posted November 05, 2004 3:00 PM Pacific Time For a while I thought I'd hooked a live one. She had beauty, brains, and a body built by Ferrari. Things were going great for a while, until I found out she voted for the other guy. It was like somebody poured a dry-ice cocktail down my shorts. Next time, I think I'll just stick to safe topics like sex and religion. ADVERTISEMENT -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- InfoWorld Webcast: Four Excuses for Upgrading Your Network InfoWorld's CTO Chad Dickerson discusses four technologies that you may want to consider when upgrading your network. This webcast is tailored to small- and mid-sized businesses looking to leverage enterprise-class technologies, like VoIP, SANs, Gigabit Ethernet and enterprise-class security, on a fraction of the budget typically required. Chad relates his experiences as a columnist and technologies. A companion webcast to P.J. Connolly's article "Small Networks Bulk Up." Sponsored by Cisco Systems. Register and view now. http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=9D1C2E:2B910B2 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- My name is Larry and I'll be your server this evening: Oracle has sweetened its fifth and "final" offer for PeopleSoft to $24 a share. That's kind of like dumping a packet of Equal into a cup of hemlock. We'll find out just how thirsty P-Soft's shareholders are on Nov. 19, when the offer is set to expire. The .com before the storm: It's moot by now, but hundreds of e-mail missives intended for campaign muckety-mucks at georgewbush.com were mistakenly sent to mailboxes at georgewbush.org, an anti-Bush satire site. Messages included polling data and discussions of campaign tactics. Even cagier: two Excel files bearing the intriguing titles "Caging.xls" and "Caging-1.xls" -- a hefty listing of names and addresses of registered voters in a largely Democratic area of Jacksonville, Fla. Hmm ... wonder what that was for? Not so hot: Back in June, Hotmail announced it would start doling out 250MB of free e-mail storage, but some Cringesters complain they're still stuck with puny 2MB accounts. A Hotmail spokesdroid says they'd hoped to finish rolling out the storage freebies by fall, but now they're shooting for year's end. Just think of it as a Christmas gift from Old St. Gates. Cultural pluralism: Unfortunately, pointing out other people's gaffes forces me to own up to mine. In discussing the Swedish Girls of Gaming, I described them as "femme fatales." But the correct plural is "femmes fatales." (You'd think I'd know that, having dated a fair number of them.) Thanks to reader Ralph W. for watching my esses. Speaking of those seven "Swedish" femmes, weeks of in-depth investigative work have unveiled their dark secret: Two of them are actually Danish. I'm still trying to find out whether they're cherry or cheese. Got hot tips or Danish pickup lines? Send 'em to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you may snag a screaming yellow bike bag. Send tips to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================== Because you can't have too much decision support You choose the platforms, the languages, the developers. And everything -- the whole IT infrastructure, the success of the enterprise - flows from there. With that much on the line, you can't have too much of the good advice you'll get in the Strategic Developer newsletter, by InfoWorld Test Center lead analyst Jon Udell. Delivered every Thursday. Subscribe at http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=9D1C2A:2B910B2 ADVERTISE ======================================================================== For information on advertising, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNSUBSCRIBE/MANAGE NEWSLETTERS ======================================================================== To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your e-mail address for any of InfoWorld's e-mail newsletters, go to: http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=9D1C2B:2B910B2 To subscribe to InfoWorld.com, or InfoWorld Print, or both, or to renew or correct a problem with any InfoWorld subscription, go to http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=9D1C2D:2B910B2 To view InfoWorld's privacy policy, visit: http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=9D1C2C:2B910B2 Copyright (C) 2004 InfoWorld Media Group, 501 Second St., San Francisco, CA 94107 This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
