vLite has reached version 1.0 Final Changes: new: 'Windows Portable Devices' new: IIS and Halo 2 Compatibility options upd: 'Natural Language' (64bit leftovers) fix: Hotfixes cleanup when integrated before fix: 'Defrag' (Shrink ability saved) fix: 'Game Explorer' (gameux.dll popups) fix: 'Internet Explorer' (DX Web installer) fix: Memory Requirement option (Manual Install dependency) About vLite vLite is a tool for customizing the Windows Vista installation before actually installing it.Main features are: component removal driver integration unattended setup split/merge Vista installation CDs tweaks bootable CD/DVD Download Page http://www.vlite.net/download.html
NEW YORK CITY 11-JUL-2007 06:30 AM Oracle today introduced Oracle(r) Database 11g, the latest release of the world's most popular database. With more than 400 features, 15 million test hours, and 36,000 person-months of development, Oracle Database 11g is the most innovative and highest quality software product Oracle have ever announced. "Oracle Database 11g, built on 30 years of design experience, delivers the next generation of enterprise information management," said Andy Mendelsohn, senior vice president of Database Server Technologies, Oracle. "More than ever, our customers are facing the challenges of, rapid data growth, increased data integration, and data connectivity IT cost pressures. Oracle Database 10g pioneered grid computing, and more than half of Oracle customers have moved to that release. Oracle Database 11g delivers the key features our customers have asked for to accelerate broad adoption and growth of Oracle grids; representing real innovation, that addresses real challenges, as told to us by real customers." Oracle Database 11g can help organizations take control of their enterprise information, gain better business insight, and quickly and confidently adapt to an increasingly changing competitive environment. To do this, the new release extends Oracle's unique database clustering, data center automation, and workload management capabilities. With secure, highly available and scalable grids of low-cost servers and storage, Oracle customers can tackle the most demanding transaction processing, data warehousing, and content management applications. Real Application Testing Helps Reduce Time, Risk and Cost of ChangeOracle Database 11g features advanced self-management and automation features to help organizations meet service level agreements. For example, with organizations facing regular database and operating system software upgrades, and hardware and system changes, Oracle Database 11g introduces Oracle Real Application Testing, making
Adobe published security advisory for Flash Player Release date: July 10, 2007 Vulnerability identifier: APSB07-12 CVE number: CVE-2007-3456, CVE-2007-3457, CVE-2007-2022 Platform: All platforms Summary Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Flash Player that could allow an attacker who successfully exploits these potential vulnerabilities to take control of the affected system. A malicious SWF must be loaded in Flash Player by the user for an attacker to exploit these potential vulnerabilities. Users are recommended to update to the most current version of Flash Player available for their platform. Original advisory URL: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb07-12.html
The official Version 1 of the Microsoft Malware Protection Center Portal has been published! The website is available here: http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/ Features: Access to our malware encyclopedia. When you need to do some research on a particular threat or family you can search or browse our encyclopedia and get the details we've written about on it. Download our antivirus and/or our antispyware signatures. We recommend updating daily, the products will do it for you, BUT if want you can do it yourself for the Forefront client or Windows Defender products both the 32 bit and 64 bit systems. Threat and Potentially Unwanted Software Telemetry. The portal provides information on the top threats and potentially unwanted software that we are observing and that's being reported to us by YOU. Each top ten category provides links to read up on those listed Tools and Resources. We have a collection of links to tools and resources that we think can be useful and interesting to you including blogs and the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report. Microsoft Security Intelligence Report. And of course no blog would be complete without me mentioning the SIR, we have a page dedicated to hosting the various reports we produce: http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/SIR.aspx
PALO ALTO, Calif., July 9, 2007 - VMware, Inc., the global leader in software for industry-standard virtualized desktops and servers, today announced the general availability of VMware Lab Manager 2.5, the latest version of the industry's leading virtual lab automation system. VMware Lab Manager enables users of VMware Infrastructure 3 to automate the setup, capture, storage and sharing of multi-machine software configurations, enabling IT organizations to more efficiently provision and manage software development and test lab assets, producing significant IT cost savings and accelerating the delivery of higher quality software and systems. Customers worldwide across 35 industries have adopted VMware Lab Manager since its release in December 2006. Building on the product's early success, leading quality management suites now integrate with VMware Lab Manager and the product offers new features designed to further automate its administration and use. VMware today also unveiled a VMware Lab Manager ROI calculator to help IT teams better quantify and communicate the product's potential value to their organizations. The ROI calculator is free of charge and available today at www.vmware.com/go/lm_calculator. "We were reaching our limit in space, power and data drops needed to support the amount of equipment required by our software developers and test teams," said Jay Leone, lab manager at Avaya. "With VMware Lab Manager we not only curbed server sprawl, but we were able to reduce power and data drop usage by 50 percent - and also freed up more than 1,000 square feet of physical space in decommissioned hardware. In addition, VMware Lab Manager has helped us reduce the IT staff time associated with setup and tear down of complex development and test environments by 90 percent." "IT organizations can leverage virtualization broadly to more efficiently deliver IT services and achieve benefits across the organization," said Stephen Elliot, director, enterprise systems manag