29 August 06 - 11:53So They're Against Testing(?)

Well, this popped up in an email from one of the founders. The bottom line: The Virus-Detection community thinks its counterproductive for someone to create test data (viruses) and run them against their detectors and maybe find bugs.

"The Expert" complains that these vendors do a lousy job with the many "new malware programs released every day" ... of course, neither "The Expert" nor the writer draws the obvious conclusion that some are just the kind fo thing that those dastardly time-wasters at Consumer Reports created. Oh well.

More rant below the fold, as it were ... (more)

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11 August 06 - 05:04OpenDS Analysis

Neil Wilson posted an entry that may have been responding to our recent posting about OpenDS. If not, it certainly tries to address some of the concerns we have. (more)

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07 August 06 - 23:45OpenDS Work List

Looking at some of the "interesting features" they intend to add, OpenLDAP already provides the interesting ones ...  read on for more ... (more)

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07 August 06 - 07:16Sun's OpenDS

Well, Sun finally open sourced a directory. Of course, it's not THE Sun directory. And the hype explanation around this one is quite transparently written by the spin doctors carefully crafted by the marketing team.

Read on for a little more opinion from the Symas team ... (more)

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