Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability which could allow elevation of privilege from authenticated user to LocalSystem, affecting Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 and all supported versions and editions of Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008.
Customers who allow user-provided code to run in an authenticated context, such as within Internet Information Services (IIS) and SQL Server, should review this advisory. Hosting providers may be at increased risk from this elevation of privilege vulnerability.
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April 22nd, 2008 |
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Canonical is getting ready to release Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition. You can download it for free on Thursday, April 24.
"Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition is built for business," says Jane Silber, COO of Canonical Ltd. "This release brings together significant feature and stability improvements to a free and open platform. Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is at the center of a growing ecosystem of applications that serve businesses of all sizes extremely well. We look forward to seeing its adoption grow ... More
April 22nd, 2008 |
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MySQL users are upset about plans Sun Microsystems disclosed this week to keep some strategic planned features -- and the source code -- closed. Only paying customers will get access to the new database features.Sun acquired MySQL in February and confirmed the new online backup capabilities that are under development will only be available to MySQL Enterprise customers. Most of the software's users have the free MySQL Community edition.
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April 18th, 2008 |
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Novell has finally announced development plans for the next generation of its enterprise Linux platform, Suse Linux Enterprise 11. Sun is already bragging, calling it the “best-engineered and most interoperable platform for mission-critical computing.”
Suse Linux Enterprise 11 will be designed to form the heart of the modern IT organization, Novell said, to provide a foundation for mission-critical workloads across the enterprise by leveraging new technologies for server virtualization, consolidation and appliances, as well as innovative client computing breakthroughs.
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March 18th, 2008 |
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Here's an interesting question making its way around the World Wide Web: If you didn't have to worry about the administrative tasks with SQL Server, would you consider using SQL Server as a service?
There's talk that it's not much different from a hosted SQL Server at your ISP. It's an issue of control, I suppose. Some people get spooked by the notion of transitioning to a fully hosted SQL solution. The discussion started at Stephen Wynkoop's site, but let's ... More
March 5th, 2008 |
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Good news for developers this week. Zend Technologies has announced its Zend Core product will run on the Windows Server 2008 platform, providing parity between Windows Server and Linux in running PHP. All Zend products will run on Windows Server 2008 platform by the end of the year.
Here's an interesting admission -- followed by a reassurance -- from Zend's ... More
March 4th, 2008 |
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There's an interesting discussion on hacking going on over at LinuxForums. A poster from Fullerton, California who uses Suse Linux says he's been the target of hackers hired by a world wide multi-million dollar company after a Wikipedia slip exposed his IP address, among other things. He wants to know, in short, if his system has been hacked. The conclusion of the story is, he probably wasn't. But it's an interesting security issue that we've all got to be ... More
February 17th, 2008 |
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2008 marked not just the beginning of a new year for Linux vendor Red Hat, but also a new beginning for its new CEO Jim Whitehurst. Whitehurst spoke with the InternetNews about his plans to tackle the challenges the Linux company faces. He discussed why the Linux business is different, why he's not getting into the database business, where Microsoft fits into his plans and what his biggest challenges are in moving Red Hat forward.
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February 14th, 2008 |
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Ubuntu and Red Hat are the most used Linux distributions among the 35,000 members of content-management vendor Alfresco's community, the company found in its second survey of trends in enterprise open-source software usage.
Among Linux operating systems, usage of Ubuntu and Red Hat stood at 35 percent and 23 percent, respectively, according to the survey. Suse, OpenSuse and Suse Enterprise collectively garnered 13 percent; Debian, 15 percent; and "other" distributions usage of 14 percent.
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February 12th, 2008 |
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Windows Server 2008 will release to manufacturing in February after all, InformationWeek reports. Until now, the company has been cagey about the new operating system's release date, only saying that it would release sometime in the first quarter of 2008.
The release, the magazine reports, will come in February, on or before the February 27th launch event Microsoft is hosting in Los Angeles to celebrate the nearly concurrent releases of Visual Studio 2008, which came out in November, ... More
January 19th, 2008 |
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