The recent exposure of hundreds of thousands of government documents by WikiLeaks points to the lack of both adequate procedures and sufficient deployment of automated technology to secure data from abuses by so-called “authorized users.” Currently, the government has arrested and charged Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, who is suspected of giving classified documents to WikiLeaks. [...]

As I prepared to head out to Oracle Open World last week, I had an opportunity to listen to a CNBC interview with CIO magazine Publisher Emeritus, Gary Beach, who was opining on an IDC study that projected strong growth in IT investment over the next year. I have to admit there were a few [...]

Beyond the public positioning about the importance of Java, there is an interesting open source angle to the purchase of Sun by Oracle, particularly from the database perspective.