The weather outside is frightful, so if you’ve no place to go, download the latest podcast from CSTechcast.com. This week we talk the open source option and why it makes sense for your operations with Curt Finch, CEO of JourneyX and author of All Your Money Won't Another Minute Buy: Valuing Time as a Business Resource. In the news, IE8 is winning the war to have the least bugs, new patches for critical vulnerabilities released after Patch Tuesday, the .tel domain aims to make it easy to share contact information, Sun retires Network.com and launches a new cloud initiative, and version 5.1 of MySQL is released debuting several new features. Sony and Facebook get dissed for their collection of private data in “The Worst Tech Move of the Week”, people who put desktop in service as servers get the wrath of “The IT Pet Peeve”, and a little tip to help get your Hyper-V machines shut down cleanly in “The Weekly Tech Tip”.
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Links to stories and sites discussed during the show:Internet Explorer Has Fewer Software Bugs Than Firefox, Chrome (InformationWeek)Zero-Day Microsoft Vulnerabilities Being Exploited (InformationWeek)Microsoft Security Advisory (960906) (Microsoft.com).Tel Them Where to Find You (New York Times)Sun Discloses Plans To Enter Cloud Computing (InformationWeek)Sun MySQL 5.1 Upgrades Partitioning, Replication (InformationWeek)Sony Violates Children's Privacy Act (Washington Post)
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