ShadowRAM: May 1, 2006
Valleywag, thankfully, did some digging to find that contrary to breathless reports in the mainstream media, Mr. Schwartz does not live in the gritty environs of The Mission. More accurately, he resides in gentrified Noe Valley in a crib that Zillow values at $2.3 million. If that’s gritty, I’ll take gritty any day.
The blog also recounts a rousing game of Segway Polo at the San Mateo Fairgrounds. Apparently, Apple hero Steve Wozniak was fully suited up for the match.
Isn’t Segway Polo one sign of the apocalypse? Maybe not, but the ubiquity of Mark Cuban may be. Cuban, who saw his prime-time Trumpian reality TV show fail, now has a Sunday talk-show gig on Sirius radio. I guess this means Howard Stern is now among Mark’s colleagues, right up there with former Dallas Mav and lunatic Dennis Rodman. Name of Cuban’s show: Radio Maverick.
Are these open-source guys too nice or what? Last week, MySQL CEO Marten Mickos presented Oracle with a Partner of the Year award. Oracle SVP Ken Jacobs, aka Dr. DBA, who spoke at the event, seemed quite moved by his crystal dolphin trophy. Maybe all this talk about a rift between Oracle and MySQL over Oracle buying out InnoDB is overblown.
Could it be that Oracle actually is learning to “work nicely with others?” Hmmm. Let’s check with EMC-Legato or Symantec-Veritas, which are clearly in Oracle’s crosshairs with its Database Vault news.
Speaking of Oracle, a week after its quarterly patch, the company was hit with news of another database vulnerability unearthed by researcher David Litchfield of Next Generation Security Software. A new exploit could let evildoers access privileged bits via a hole in the database’s export extension, according to reports. If true, one might trot out Microsoft exec Paul Flessner’s general-purpose response to all things Oracle: “Unbreakable? Give me a break.”
With guilty pleas from former CA chief Sanjay Kumar and former top sales guy Stephen Richards in hand, speculation is running rampant that the feds will turn their inquiring eyes on CA founder Charles Wang. Wang was boss during the early days of CA’s problem period. So far, Wang’s in the clear, but some wags feel he may be next under the scope. DOJ to Shadowram: No comment. None of this is, of course, funny. Unless, of course, you’re Sam Wyly.
During its fourth-quarter earnings call in February, Dell said revenue growth had waned. And CEO Kevin Rollins said news of changes to the company’s business model could come in April. Tick, tock. It’s May now and not a peep from Round Rock.
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