Nov. 13, 2007
Take What’s so hot about Oracle AIA?
IT World Canada
Joaquim Menezes takes a look at one of the hot topics at Oracle’s OpenWorld conference.
”The problem is that IT environment in large enterprises are quite often a dog’s breakfast of heterogeneous apps from multiple vendors, alongside custom made software. Automating business processes across the boundaries of these multiple apps is usually a very laborious, complex and time consuming task..”
Getting Old, Indeed
ComputerWorld
Don Tennant learns his disdain for the use of ‘booth babes’ is not shared by many of his readers.
“The overt dismissiveness that female IT professionals encounter is one of the factors that explains the pay disparity between women and men in IT.”
Ex-AT&T employee: NSA snooping Internet traffic too
ARS Technica
Eric Bangerman reports Cyber Big Brother is watching.
”In addition to listening in on phone calls, the National Security Agency has also been monitoring the Internet traffic of US residents, according to a retired AT&T engineer. Whistleblower and ex-AT&T employee Mark Klein said that the telecom has been diverting IP traffic to a secret NSA listening room in San Francisco.“