Daily news beat for April 11, 2008

Oracle says it will issue critical database patches next Tuesday to the tune 41 bug fixes, including two for particularly nasty vulnerabilities in the database that can be exploited without a username and password.

A pair of Gartner analysts said that Windows is collapsing and Microsoft must make radical changes to its operating system – lest it be rendered a has-been.

Storage Networking World came and went this week and Fibre Channel over Ethernet, it appears, is now poised to change the rules of storage. FCoE catches fire at SNW.

Sun Microsystems foreshadows environmentally-friendly power management features for servers that allow customers to set usage policies such that a server could be tuned to either get the job done as fast as possible, or to take longer but burn fewer watts.

And Robert X. Cringely, in this Geek week in review, finds that the problem with Sequoia e-voting machines is worse than originally thought, while the U.S. Census Bureau turns back to paper and pencil after completely bollixing attempts to digitize its data collection process.

Posted by Tom Sullivan on April 11, 2008 09:39 AM