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Sun Opens Up Enterprise Software
abscondment writes "Stating that "open source is the future" of the software industry, Sun's President and COO Jonathan Schwartz announced that Sun will be opening its enterprise software in a manner similar to Solaris 10. Sun is opening up the Java Enterprise System, Sun N1 Management software, and Sun developer tools, etc. - practically everything except Java - hoping to lure more developers and chief executive officers worldwide to use and deploy its enterprise software." -
83,431 Recited Digits of Pi
i_like_spam writes "59-year-old Akira Haraguchi of Japan recently broke the world record for the recited number of digits of Pi. Haraguchi-san recited an amazing 83,431 digits of Pi during a 13-hour overnight stretch. This almost doubles the previous record of 42,195 digits by fellow Japanese Hiroyuki Goto. Though it is not yet updated to reflect the new record, the Pi-World-Ranking-List has the rules for participation and breaks down the ranking by world, continent, and country. Links to world rankings for memorized digits of E and Sqrt(2) are also given." -
"Missing Link" In Windows Emulation Unveiled?
ben_ writes "According to this article on inq7.net, a Philippines company called SpecOps has revealed their Project David, a middleware layer that solves the problem Wine has been working at for years and will "enable all major Microsoft Windows applications to run on the free and open source Linux OS". Further (and more sceptical) analysis at Linux Electrons." I'm with Linux Electrons on this; as nice as it sounds, the information about David comes via Press Release which as we all know are founts of dependability *cough*. -
Why Are SSL Certificates So Expensive?
hip2b2 asks: "SSL over HTTP is becoming a very popular way of securing websites for eCommerce and other forms of secure transactions. A vital ingredient of a SSL protected website is an SSL certificate. In the Philippines, most of the secure website here buy their certificates from Verisign. Why should we trust a certification authority that is located in a different country and charges and arm and a leg for a certificate instead of a local one? I can pay 349USD for a Verisign or 125USD for one from Thawte, which is not cheap here. With an exchange rate of around 48.50PHP per USD, this amount is beyond the reach of most local sites who just want to setup secure sites to try out the technology or use it for some charitable purpose. How do we expect to promote the use of SSL in our websites locally with these prohibitive costs? This problem is not limited to the Philippines, I presume that other countries could also relate to this issue." Right now, the cost of an SSL certificate is one of the prices for doing business on the internet (in addition to bandwitdh costs), but what would it take to start up another company that issues CAs, especially if you want to do it outside of the US?"Is it a question of trust? Do local ecommerce and secure sites trust verisign more that say a local company that provides secure certificates? What confuses me is why is there no proliferation of trusted local institutional CAs? In the future, Verisign might end up being another Network Solutions.
Oh wait! Network Solutions is a Verisign company!
What are the barriers for setting up local country CAs? Right now, I presume that browser makers are the ones listing the trusted root CAs on their browsers by default. If my university were to setup a root CA how would we get netscape and the other browser makers to recognize us? or is there some sort of governing body for assigning root CAs like ICANN is supposed to be for name resolution? or could this be one of ICANN's eventual functions?"