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TechRepublic:
Red Hat suite makes e-commerce easy
Red Hat’s E-Commerce Suite includes all the tools necessary to quickly and easily allow small to medium-size organizations to open an online store for their products or services. See what it can do and how it stacks up.
“I’ve received a fair amount of pushback on my Boingo article from Wednesday from readers and fellow Webloggers on how superfluous Boingo seems. Why not just do what they’re doing in software via a browser window, they ask? Why lock into a specific proprietary software package thus creating the potential for a non-standard network?…”
Application Single-Sign On: Netegrity, Securant, or Evidian?
-by L. Taylor
As security breaches become increasingly more frequent, minimizing user
access to back-end systems and web applications without impacting
legitimate usage is more important than ever before.
| This is a nice scoop by Glenn, who calls it a “transforming event.” WiFi everywhere, thanks to Earthlink and it’s Boingo Wireless spin-off. But::::: only for Windows clients: |
| By requiring client software, initially available only for Windows, Boingo offers a variety of features in one bundle: single user login, WEP key management, Wi-Fi network profile management, preferred network priority, VPN (virtual private network) service to Boingo’s public servers, quality of service (QoS) tracking, and connection logging. |
| Boingo also throws in authenticated SMTP mail service, which allows outbound email service anywhere on the Internet. |
| Excuse me for saying this truly sucks. |
| This launch will most likely transform Wi-Fi public space access from a niche market to a national infrastructure and hasten the integration with cellular networks. |
| No, it will create a big private WiFi space for Boingo customers with special client software that only Boingo provides. |
| What’s wrong with the way WayPort and MobileStar and the others do it now (including whatever the outfit is that provides service at Mariott hotels), which is with DHCP and a browser-based sales & authentication scheme? With those guys you just set your laptop (or whatever) up for wireless DHCP, fire up a browser, go through a pay-in and/or login routine (if you’re already paid up) in your browser window, and bang: you’re on the Net, ready to do whatever you like (including your own damn SMTP and POP mail). |
| Here’s what’s wrong with it: there’s no lock-in. It’s just a service. And if you’re AOL or Microsoft or Earthlink, it isn’t enough just to provide a service. You need to own the user by owning the client. The user is a steer that isn’t yours without your brand on its hide. |
| These guys still see the Net as nothing more than a convenient transport system for their own private online services. They constantly want to to fence off their own green pastures in the midst of the Net’s wide open spaces. And they think they can only do that with a locked-in client: |
| A Macintosh version of the connection software is planned for 2002, but the company did not want to issue a prediction for delivery. (Dayton himself is a committed Macintosh user.) |
| I’m a Mac user too. Also Linux. But so the fuck what? Why should the system care? The client shouldn’t matter. If it can connect by DHCP over a WiFi link and run a browser, it should be ready to use the Web anywhere, anytime. Earthlink deserves good PR for rolling out a big-ass WiFi service. They deserve a chorus of raspberries for making it a lock-in strategy. |
Gartner FirstTake via TechRepublic:
Microsoft brings affordable e-commerce to smaller businesses
TechRepublic:
Use NetMeeting to support remote clients–for free
Wired News:
Stealing MS Passport’s Wallet
12:25 p.m. Nov. 2, 2001 PST
To correct serious security flaws, Microsoft on Friday disabled the virtual wallet function of its Passport service and has begun notifying partners about the vulnerabilities, the company has confirmed.
The bugs in Passport, a sign-on service used by more than 200 million people, were discovered this week by Marc Slemko, a software developer who lives near Microsoft’s Redmond, Washington, headquarters.
Besides posting it at his site, Slemko intends to release the technical details on several security mailing lists Friday “so that, if they choose, users and partners can choose to reduce the impact on themselves,” he said. Because of the severity of the flaws, Slemko withheld publication until Microsoft had an opportunity to correct it.
Ben Adida: Why Not MySQL? (for the OpenACS Project)
NOTE: This Document was written in May 2000. Thus, it is outdated and does not represent the latest data concerning MySQL. I will attempt to find time to rewrite this with more current information soon (August 10th, 2001)
If what you want is raw, fast storage, use a filesystem. If you want to share it among multiple boxes, use NFS. If you want simple reliability against simplistic failure, use mirroring. Want a SQL interface to it all? Use MySQL.
Now, if what you want is data storage that guarantees a certain number of invariants in your data set, that allows for complex operations on this data without ever violating those constraints, that isolates simultaneous users from each other’s partial work, and that recovers smoothly from just about any kind of failure, then get your self a real RDBMS. Yes, it will be slower than the MySQL file system. Just like TCP is slower than UDP, while providing better service guarantees.
TechnologyEvaluation.COM:
The Application Server War Escalates:
BEA and Oracle duke it out at JavaOne conference while Sun/iPlanet and IBM look on.
TechnologyEvaluation.COM:
Great Product: Too Bad The Architecture Doesn’t Fit
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