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What a Feeling For the latest in enterprise technology, bookmark eWEEK.com. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1186-2-3-308321-133303-1 ========================================================= News and Views ========================================================= 1. News: Some See PeopleSoft's End Drawing Near After 16 months of bloody warfare, PeopleSoft has finally voiced a willingness to sit down and discuss a deal with Oracle--a development that marks the beginning of the end for the company, according to some legal experts. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1186-2-3-308321-133306-1 Oracle vs. PeopleSoft http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1186-2-3-308321-133309-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2. News: Security Alert: DB2 Flaws Surface Next Generation Security Software has reported 20 critical vulnerabilities in IBM DB2 Universal Database. NGS will not be releasing the details of these vulnerabilities until Jan. 5th to provide time for IBM to address the problems and for customers to apply fixes. Find out how you can protect your databases here. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1186-2-3-308321-133312-1 Database Security http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1186-2-3-308321-133315-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3. News: Microsoft Releases Virtual PC 7 After a series of delays, Microsoft has begun shipping a version of Virtual PC that is compatible with Apple's G5-based systems. Learn more about Virtual PC 7 and what it has to offer. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1186-2-3-308321-133318-1 Mac OS X in the Enterprise http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1186-2-3-308321-133321-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4. News: Blogger Boss to Leave Google Evan Williams, who created and helped turn Blogger into a leading Weblogging tool, says he's ready for his next act. Fittingly, he blogged the news. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1186-2-3-308321-133324-1 Weblogs http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1186-2-3-308321-133327-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5. News: AMD Offers Performance Details of New Dual-Core Opteron Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday unveiled its dual-core architecture at In Stat/MDR's Fall Processor Forum and provided the first estimates of the chip's performance. Get the details here. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1186-2-3-308321-133330-1 Microprocessor Advances http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1186-2-3-308321-133333-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6. News: MSN Search Preview Resurfaces The public preview of MSN's upcoming search engine is back, this time with a Web index about five times fatter and reworked relevancy algorithms. See what MSN is cooking up to compete against Google. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1186-2-3-308321-133336-1 New Frontiers for Search http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1186-2-3-308321-133339-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 7. News: Kodak's Java Case Underscores Patent System Woes When Eastman Kodak won the initial round of its Java lawsuit against Sun, it sent shock waves through not just Sun and the Java community, but in the legal community as well. Experts there see this as another sign of how badly the patent system works with software. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1186-2-3-308321-133342-1 Technology Patents in Crisis http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1186-2-3-308321-133345-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 8. CIO Insight: Toyota's Business Intelligence: Oh! What a Feeling Toyota's business-intelligence system mirrors the company's corporate culture, or kaizen--the Japanese business philosophy that demands obsessive cost control and relentless micromanagement. 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