Oracle faces 'dilemma' with its Fusion Applications

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	Oracle faces 'dilemma' with its Fusion Applications Oracle spent years developing its next-generation Fusion Applications and finally put them into general availability nearly a year-and-a-half ago, but some new evidence suggests that it's been less than successful at enticing customers to move up. Read More WHITE PAPER: LogMeIn Connect to Customer's Mobile Devices for Improved Service Superior customer support and service are top priorities for leading companies looking to achieve competitive advantage. This report looks at how call centers, online chat, click-to-call and offering remote support to customers' smartphones are all keys to satisfying and keeping customers. Learn more. In this Issue Dropbox woos enterprise IT with new admin and security tools Mozilla delivers 'Metro-ized' Firefox to testers Yahoo's Mayer says mobile mail is broken Yahoo lambasted for using SiteBuilder with outdated Java Microsoft patches Exchange, Windows, Internet Explorer WHITE PAPER: FalconStor Confronting the Data Backup Challenge IDG Research Services surveyed 215 IT managers at enterprise and SMB organizations for some answers to these questions and to find out their plans as they look to their future storage needs. Read this paper to learn more about the key findings. Learn More Dropbox woos enterprise IT with new admin and security tools Several file-sharing companies have been billed as "Dropbox for the enterprise." Turns out Dropbox wants that title as well. Dropbox's latest bid in wooing IT professionals is a new admin panel and sharing controls for Dropbox for Teams, the company's file-sharing service aimed at teams of users in a corporate environment. The update adds new tools for managing team members, monitoring activity, controlling permissions, and boosting security. Read More Mozilla delivers 'Metro-ized' Firefox to testers Mozilla yesterday took another step toward delivering a "Metro" version of Firefox to Windows 8 users. Late Tuesday, Firefox desktop product manager Asa Dotzler announced that a preliminary Metro browser had reached "mozilla-central," the source code repository that feeds into what Mozilla calls the "Nightly" build channel. Nightly builds are designed for testing, and as the name implies, are automatically updated each night to that day's edition. Firefox's Nightly builds are Mozilla's roughest-edged editions Read More Yahoo's Mayer says mobile mail is broken Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer thinks there are problems with checking email on a smartphone, but her company is working on a solution. One issue lies in how smartphones and desktop computers are synchronized. Reading emails on your phone and then taking the extra step of marking them as unread so they will still be there on your desktop is a key problem, the executive said. Read More Yahoo lambasted for using SiteBuilder with outdated Java Yahoo has come under severe criticism by security experts decrying its practice of steering small businesses to a website-building tool that uses an insecure 2008 version of Java. Businesses signing up for Yahoo's Web hosting service are directed to SiteBuilder, a free Web-based tool for building basic sites for e-commerce. SiteBuilder provides a simple point-and-click development environment that requires Java. The security of sites built with the tool is compromised because Yahoo deploys the out-of-date Java 6 Update 7, KrebsonSecurity reported. Read More Microsoft patches Exchange, Windows, Internet Explorer System administrators overseeing Microsoft Exchange deployments should take a close look at Microsoft's latest round of security patches. In addition to covering Windows and Internet Explorer, Microsoft's latest monthly batch of patches covers the widely used Exchange Server, both the Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2010 editions. "Microsoft delivered a monster sized patch this month ... It's enough to make your head spin," wrote Andrew Storms, director of security operations for security firm nCircle, in an email. Read More
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