Wait until somebody hacks .MIL and sends a nuke to the White House. However Stuxnet was aimed at Iran which recieved much its nuclear know how from Pakistan; Paki nukes are armed and aimed at India. Apparently wasn't hard...
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I believe that the "update" that was being spoken of in the article was the 2002 Standard for the language. There is another release of the standard pending and should be finalized this year. So we will have...
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That both Oregon's ineffective management under Carolyn Lawson and Oracle - her chosen partner - share blame for this debacle is not for debate. Assinging singular blame to either party in a marriage of this intimacy...
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Yes that's basically right. It's a secured, government only data center using Microsoft Windows Azure, which encompasses scalable, on-demand IaaS, PaaS and Data cloud services. It will allow government customers to ...
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No, you didn't get that quite right. SAP and Oracle are competitors and both are proposing in-memory technology to provide speed advantages where needed. SAP Hana is an all-in-memory database, and it says its platform won't...
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The way in which large companies can drag judgements like this out for years renders such cases meaningless. By the time this is settled, the state of the art will be something else.
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Gen. Lord makes some great observations here on how hard and how costly it can be to modernize legacy systems. The amount of time and investment that it would take to overhaul some of the government's massive old systems...
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As much trouble as the federal health care exchange experienced, it's growing evident that the majority of states that participated in the federal exchange are probably better off than states like Oregon and Maryland that...
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Carolyn Lawson did give an interview to the Oregonian defending herself professionally. Cover Oregon: Carolyn Lawson, departed IT director, says she's been unfairly scapegoated http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf...
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Seems like insurance exchange sites are fraught with problems. Let's not forget Minnesota's MNsure site, which tripped up IBM earlier this year. There, too, there's question as to whether the problem lies with the vendors...
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There is plenty of blame to go around to plenty of people and organizations, including Oracle. While it's easy to point fingers months later, from hundreds of miles away, it's infuriating to once again see taxpayers' money...
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BTW, shortly after I filed this story, I did receive a brief note from Aaron Karjala, CIO of Cover Oregon, who said, "We are still actively partnered with Oracle to continue delivery of the exchange technology. We have...
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Sheehan's perspective is interesting, but does it seem credible to you that Oracle could be completely blameless in this mess? I can imagine that poor direction from state project managers might have gotten the project off...
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I'm in the same camp, I wouldn't bet the farm on solar as the only source of power for any solution but I do think that we are getting very close to the point where a couple different alternative sources will be able to...
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The door is open but having played with Windows 8 phone I have to say right now what is killing it most is the lack of apps. The UI is actually quite nice on the phone sized display but when going from my Android phone...
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To my understanding the government-only cloud is a kind of private cloud with enhanced security. Here the similar kind of thing happens in China. The government agencies use cloud computing widely but all come from local...
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This is a good thing for Apple - it can put in a plug for the new Cryptocat on iOS. The secure messaging and the also mobile security as a whole is a big concern from end user communities. The approval of Cryptocat will...
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Google's video made an interesting point. Their balloons may only be airborne for 100 days or so, which may seem insignificant compared to the drones. But is it really a value-add to have a device that is capable of flying...
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If good policy is formulated to protect privacy, we still need a general election and a Presidential contest in which implimentation of the policy is a central tenet. We're not there yet. But we might get there.
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