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This may be Oracle's week, but Microsoft doesn't plan to let its rival steal all the thunder. While Oracle toots the horns of its Collaboration Suite, Enterprise Manager and database management software this week at OracleWorld, Microsoft next week will hold its Professional Association for SQL Server Community Summit to announce a Center of Excellence. MS also plans to parry Oracle's "unbreakable" promises with an Installer that automatically installs SQL Server database security patches.
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Oracle 9i on HP-UX first commercial database for Itanium 2 (SearchHP.com)
Hewlett-Packard and Oracle announced Monday that HP will be shipping the Oracle 9i database on HP-UX 11i for the Itanium 2 processor by the end of the year. The move makes 9i the first commercial database available on an Itanium 2 platform.
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IBM Express to hit .NET head-on (vnunet)
Big Blue wants "all aboard" the IBM Express. Destination? Somewhere away from Microsoft! IBM is prepping mid-range middleware to take on .NET. WebSphere Portal Express is already ready, and more .NET-tackling products, like Web access and security infrastructure software, are on the way.
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Microsoft's SQL Server security architect James Hamilton and security guru Girish Chander share best practices for locking down your SQL Server database.
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Return to sender -- Two men stockpiling AOL CDs
Spam for your real mailbox -- the one outside your house -- is alive and well. And a lot of it comes from AOL. The company's promotional compact discs are more pervasive than Starbucks and J. Lo's engagement rumors. Two IT guys from the outskirts of San Francisco have decided enough is enough. They're working on a Boston Tea Party of sorts, asking people to send them their AOL CDs. When they get one million, they and their band of disc-dissing rebels plan to haul their CD collection to AOL's Virginia headquarters, ring the doorbell and pronounce, "You've got mail." They've got about 80,000 discs so far, and get this: AOL says it will help put them over the top if they come up short!
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