Web Services Strategies
Beyond the technology, IT strategies for implementation of Web services by Doug Kaye.
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Risks of a Computing Monoculture. (PDF) A leading group of computer security scientists (Dan Geer, Rebecca Bace, Peter Gutmann, Perry Metzger, John S. Quarterman, Charles Pfleeger, and Bruce Schneier) have written a paper about the risks to society from a Microsoft-dominated computing monoculture. [Source: Scott Loftesness]
Most of the world's computers run Microsoft's operating systems, thus most of the world's computers are vulnerable to the same viruses and worms at the same time. The only way to stop this is to avoid monoculture in computer operating systems, and for reasons just as reasonable and obvious as avoiding monoculture in farming. Microsoft exacerbates this problem via a wide range of practices that lock users to its platform. The impact on security of this lock-in is real and endangers society.
Posted Thursday, September 25, 2003 9:43:38 AM 
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Update: IT Conversations RSS Feeds. I've just changed the URLs for the RSS feeds for IT Conversations (one with and one without enclosures). If you've used the URLs with the .xml suffix, please replace them with those on this page with the .php suffix. The .xml files are about to disappear. Sorry about that, but better sooner rather than later, eh?
Posted Thursday, September 25, 2003 7:12:09 AM
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