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May 28, 2004

BEA’s growing pains

Filed under: Business — blogadmin @ 11:30 am

May 28, 2004, 4:00 AM PT
By Martin LaMonica
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

In less than 10 years, BEA Systems became a billion-dollar company.

The Java software maker saw explosive growth during the Internet boom of the late 1990s by supplying the back-end application server software to run Web applications. Company CEO and founder Alfred Chuang wants that growth to continue. His goal is to make BEA a $3 billion company within the next five years.

But things have changed since the go-go days of the Internet boom. BEA is facing increased competition from IBM, Oracle and Microsoft. Open-source application servers are increasingly popular. Corporate customers are also winnowing down the number of technology suppliers they work with. That can pose a challenge for BEA, which doesn’t have the same broad product line or as many contacts within corporate customers as its larger competitors.
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May 13, 2004

Thinking about software licensing for a small ISV and the issue of open source

Filed under: Business — blogadmin @ 2:22 pm

By Dan Bricklin
A discussion of various ideas for using open source-style licensing for products from a small software developer
Introduction

After about 8 years of working in a many-person software company, eventually ending up in a large web hosting company, I’m back to running a small (basically one person) software company. Much has changed in the years since I last developed software this way. Before releasing any software, I decided to try to understand some of those changes and see how that affects how I can go about making money.
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May 10, 2004

Giving Your Product a Leg-Up

Filed under: Business — blogadmin @ 1:26 pm

Inspirational ideas — and the promotional strategies to promote them — crop up in the strangest places. For me, it was ugly panty lines

Sara Blakely of Spanx

One night, I wanted to wear my cream pants with open-toed shoes, but I couldn’t find the right undergarment. Everything I tried gave me panty lines and additional lumps and bumps. Out of frustration, I cut the feet out of my control-top pantyhose.
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May 7, 2004

Twelve rules for developing more secure Java code

Filed under: Computer — blogadmin @ 12:28 pm

Writing security-conscious Java code can help you avoid security surprises

Summary
Java is growing up and is starting to be used in many security-critical situations. But even with its advanced security architecture and built-in security features, Java isn’t immune to security risks. As Java security practitioners, authors Gary McGraw and Edward Felten have learned many valuable lessons about how to create more secure code. Writing security-critical code isn’t easy, and developers need all the help they can get. In this article, McGraw and Felten offer 12 rules for writing safer Java code. (2,800 words)

By Gary McGraw and Edward Felten
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May 6, 2004

Oracle Test Stored Procedures or Functions in sqlplus

Filed under: Computer — blogadmin @ 4:27 pm

1. if the procedure has only simple input parameters, we can run it simply in Toad SQL Edit window.
a. select * from dhcp_server_ip where lower_ip 171114500;
b. select ptdb_pkg.convert_ip(‘10.33.00.04’) from dual;
c. select ptdb_pkg.convert_ip(‘10.51.0.04’) from dual;

2. This is how to call it from Sqlplus and with output variables as input parameters.
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May 1, 2004

Co-founders release Google ‘owner’s manual’

Filed under: Business — blogadmin @ 12:23 pm

By Jim Hu
Last modified: April 29, 2004, 2:41 PM PDT
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have always done it their own way.
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信产部Linux标准制定提速, 首批13家单位加入

Filed under: Computer — blogadmin @ 12:15 pm

ZDNet China4月30日北京报道 (文/张岚)：近日从有关方面获悉，自信息产业部科技司今年3月正式成立Linux标准工作组以来，已有13家相关单位作为首批成员企业加盟其中。

　　这13家单位是中国电子技术标准研究所、中标软、红旗、新华、软件所、金山、冲浪平台、公达、方正、精伦、力友和、中国软件评测中心、中国电子工业科学技术交流中心。
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