RE: Open Source Security Comes Under Fire

David Coursey, one of their Editors/Columnists made the disclaimer some time back when he was comparing different software offerings of some type. He mentioned that MS had some type of ownership in them or their parent company. I don't recall which.

Rodd

On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 08:03, Boivin, Patrice J wrote:
> Rodd,
>
> Where do you see evidence that Ziff-Davis is owned by Microsoft?
>
> The links seem to lead to a UK publishing firm.
>
> www.ziffdavis.com --> http://www.willisstein.com/ --> www.emac.com
>
> Regards,
> Patrice Boivin
> Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 3:27 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> Go figure. This was published on a ZiffDavis news site. ZD is either
> majority or wholly owned by Microsoft. Do you suppose there might be a
> bit of a slant there?????
>
> Rodd Holman
>
> On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 10:23, DENNIS WILLIAMS wrote:
> > Patrice - Amazing how these things happen. A few weeks ago a report listed
> > Microsoft products as among the worst security risks. Microsoft
> immediately
> > attacked the report. Then by an amazing coincidence, an "impartial"
> > organization releases a report stating that Microsoft's greatest
> competitor,
> > the "free" people, are actually the greatest security risk.
> > Somebody refresh my memory -- wasn't it the Aberdeen Group that Larry
> > hired the private eye to get some proof that they were just shills for
> > Microsoft, and the guy was caught dumpster diving?
> >
> >
> >
> > Dennis Williams
> > DBA
> > Lifetouch, Inc.
> > dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 8:24 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> > FYI.
> >
> > <http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,720533,00.asp>
> > http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,720533,00.asp
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Patrice Boivin
> > Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
> >
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