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Oracle 9i Isn't Quite Unbreakable

Posted by timothy on from the whom-the-crackers-would-destroy dept.

BillTheKatt writes: "The formerly (as in a couple of weeks) "unbreakable" Oracle 9i has been found to be vulnerable to a Denial Of Service bug. ... Thanks [H]ardOCP for the link to the Article At SiliconValley.com. For more information see the official notice on SecurityFocus. More proof that Microsoft does not hold a monopoly on bugs. And of course a black eye to Mr. Larry 'Big Mouth' Ellison. I'm still waiting for my network computer, Larry."

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  1. Re:Well, we all knew... by ct · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Exposure here one /. aside, watch for just how much press this, as well as the recent XP hole, get's in the "mainstream" mailout periodical press.

    As a SysaAdmin (who never explicitly subscribed) to any of the 3 CMP/techweb publications I now receive weekly/biweekly/monthly or the electronic C|net shite I'm now eternally a "customer" of, it's pretty obvious who pays the bills for the (largely) waste of bandwidth reviews they provide. Wake up... they aren't going to bite they hands that feeds them - particularly MS or Oracle.

    While you/I/every other jaded IT employee with half a brain can be critical of this two faced advertising driven BS, the individual with a tight grip on the purse strings for IT expenditures is getting the same mailings & treating them as dogma - because he doesn't know/care that he's being fed crap with a fancy ribbon around it.

    Until the push-periodicals are no longer driven by big bucks advertising contracts & therefor biased coverage of these products, IT "managers" will have a steady supply of bullshit benchmarks & reviews IN WRITING to reinforce & perpetuate their decision making process.

    -ct