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Snort Problems

by Noel Davis – Welcome to Security Alerts, an overview of recent Unix and open source security advisories. In this column, we look at buffer overflows in Snort and SheerDNS, and problems in Xinetd, vixie-cron, Oracle E-Business Suite FNDFS, xfsdump, Ximian Evolution, GtkHTML, kdegraphics, and psban

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Free Trade Group Backs PeopleSoft

By Dennis Callaghan – The Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, a non-profit foundation known for advancing pro-business and free markets causes, proved that laissez faire capitalism has its limits, coming out on the side of PeopleSoft Inc. in its hostile takeover battle with Oracle Corp.

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Microsoft Readies SBS 2003

(Peter Galli) Microsoft Corp. last week made available the release candidate for its Windows Small Business Server 2003, the latest product in the Windows Server 2003 family headed for release. The premium version will include technologies such as SQL Server 2000 and Microsoft’s Internet, Securit

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Database Server Clash Revisited

(Timothy Dyck) eWEEK and sister publication PC Magazine early last year published results of a comparative performance test of database servers. It had been almost a decade since either publication had performed a similar test, so we expected significant interest in the story. The actual response