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November 19, 2004
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1. News: Oracle's Quarterly Patch Plan Gets Cautious Nod
2. News: Congress to Vote on Internet Tax Ban
3. News: Former AOLers Bet on Private P2P App
4. News: Apple Sees Triple-Digit Boost in Server Sales
5. News: New Industry Consortium Rallies Around Linux Standard Base
6. News: Microsoft Makes a Play for Novell Users
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1. News: Oracle's Quarterly Patch Plan Gets Cautious Nod
In switching to a schedule of quarterly patch rollup
releases, Oracle is sparing grateful DBAs and customers from
the constant patching of monthly releases, to which the
company originally alluded three months ago.
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2. News: Congress to Vote on Internet Tax Ban
After more than a year of leaving the threat of new state-
and city-levied taxes looming over Internet access providers
and online merchants, Congress is poised to reimpose a
moratorium on taxing Internet access.
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3. News: Former AOLers Bet on Private P2P App
Is there a place in the enterprise for a legal file-sharing
application using peer-to-peer technology? Three former
America Online executives with a history of entrepreneurial
success believe they have the answer with Grouper, an
encrypted P2P network that integrates file sharing, instant
messaging and multimedia streaming.
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4. News: Apple Sees Triple-Digit Boost in Server Sales
Apple Computer more than doubled its quarterly sales of its
Xserve G5 servers over the last year, according to a report
by Gartner.
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5. News: New Industry Consortium Rallies Around Linux Standard Base
Four international Linux powers are forming a new Linux
consortium to create a common core implementation of the
Linux Standard Base 2.0.
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6. News: Microsoft Makes a Play for Novell Users
Microsoft's Linux point, Martin Taylor, is targeting one of
the newer and increasingly powerful Linux players, Novell,
by crusading to capture NetWare defectors before they have a
chance to migrate to Linux.
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