Careers: Bob Lewis continues his thread about vanishing jobs by posting one reader's progress report on the matter at Advice Line. Let's just say it starts with a two-day meeting to discuss the future, and ends on a surprisingly positive note.

Data management: I wouldn't typically consider DBAs your run-of-the-mill thugs. But those who use Red Gate's SQL Backup ought to know that ignorance is no excuse in the eyes of the law. Oh yes, and those licenses are not transferable, under any conditions mind you, to other machines. "I find that not only incredible, but maybe even a bit offensive," Sean McCown proclaims in Use Red-Gate's backup and go to jail? "If I buy a license, I should be able to use it any way I like." And even if Red-Gate doesn't come after you, the auditors still could, he adds.

The news beat: Government CIOs rank security at the top of their concern list, followed by enterprise IT management, efforts to modernize applications. Hewlett-Packard reveals its intent to swallow Polyserve, a storage software provider. And a battle is stirring over the RFID-chip hacking demonstration that took place earlier this year at Black Hat.

Posted by Tom Sullivan on February 27, 2007 04:50 AM