101 down and how many to go?

Story: Oracle's mega-patch shuts 101 doorsTotal Replies: 5
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wind0wsr3fund

Oct 18, 2006
11:33 AM EDT
We'll never know of course since we're talking about a black box.
jimf

Oct 18, 2006
11:47 AM EDT
Finally, something that we agree with ;-)

Oracle touts it's self to be the premier heavy duty extendable database for Business Enterprise. We have no Idea how long these holes have existed in the system. I saw nothing indicating exactly what has been patched, and, we have no idea how many more bugs and holes still exist.

Oh yeah, that's the database I want in my business. Truly 'Enterprise worthy'...
wind0wsr3fund

Oct 18, 2006
1:13 PM EDT
jimf,

While I'm glad we agree with regards to Oracle's bits, I'm not sure you fully understand that this "black box" scenario applies to all software that is non-free. Perhaps I'm wrong but I tend to think you'd stop using non-free wares all together if you understood that the freedom to scrutinize is fundamental to the success of the human experiment.
jimf

Oct 18, 2006
2:13 PM EDT
> Perhaps I'm wrong

You are, just leave it there ;-)
Scott_Ruecker

Oct 18, 2006
3:52 PM EDT
And for a moment I thought that we had achieved the impossible.. the Unstoppable Force and the Immovable Object agreed on something (Looking outside for raining of frogs)..

;-)
jimf

Oct 18, 2006
4:05 PM EDT
> Looking outside for raining of frogs

Look again, they're probably falling now :D

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