The sheer number of worms and viruses directed at Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system and Internet Explorer browser have many in the computer industry wondering whether we would all be more secure if more users relied on alternatives to Microsoft's products. That description appeared to fit about two thirds of attendees at a debate between two prominent security experts at the Usenix 2004 conference in Boston.
Sun Microsystems Inc. Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy at the SunNetwork conference in San Francisco last month preached the mantra of utility computing and lashed out at rivals who call his company's technology proprietary.
Sun Microsystems Inc. Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy at the SunNetwork conference in San Francisco Tuesday preached the mantra of utility computing and lashed out at rivals who call his company's technology proprietary.