Redwood Shores (ip-192.com): Oracle seems to plan to end the OpenSolaris project, according to an internal memo. "All of Oracle’s efforts on binary distributions of Solaris technology will be focused on Solaris 11," the memo says. "We will not release any other binary distributions, such as nightly or bi-weekly builds of Solaris binaries, or an [...]

Traverse City (ip-192.com): 80 percent of enterprise security administrators believe that web 2.0 applications pose a significant security risk, according to a survey by the Ponemon Institute. The institute sampled 2,100 IT security administrators in the U.S., United Kingdom, Australia, France, and Japan. 20 percent of the respondents believe that employees rarely or never consider [...]

Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google launched a new search engine service specifically designed for large e-commerce retailers. Google Commerce Search puts a key element of a retail website's shopping experience in Google's hands: the consumers' ability to find the merchandise. With a starting price of $50,000 per year, Google Commerce Search will run on Google servers. [...]