http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,18341811%5E15841%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html Bloomberg MARCH 07, 2006 ORACLE, the world's third- biggest software maker, has begun selling software that allows users to search only personal data on their work computers such as email, word documents and calendar appointments. Chief executive Larry Ellison says the California company's new search program "is one of the biggest products in years," and may help draw users away from Google, which also offers software for searching content on computers and operates the world's most-used internet search site. "Google has always had a good search, but it was the security side that it's not good at," Ellison told reporters at the annual Oracle OpenWorld Tokyo 2006 conference in Japan. "We have the security problem solved. That's what we're good at, and that's the hard part of the problem." The business-oriented Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g, which the company began offering worldwide today, uses a crawler that categorises what files a user can or cannot access depending on its security policies. To run the search, the user needs a password, and the results are tailored to the specific user's security settings. The software is downloadable for a free trial, Oracle Japan public relations director Takeo Tamagawa says. He declines to comment on how much the software will cost. "No one yet has done a good job of securely searching private data, even though private data is the most valuable. "Most people want to search private data much more often than they need to search public data," Ellison says. Ellison says he is also striving to make Oracle the top software maker for business systems through its "global strategy of innovation and acquisition." "In software, the more customers you have for a product, the more you can invest in research and development to make that product better," he says. "The top position is critical in allowing you to invest in engineering and continue to improve and innovate." After the $US10.6 billion takeover of PeopleSoft in January 2005, Oracle is now the world's biggest maker of software for handling payrolls and other human resource tasks, he says. The January 31 acquisition of California-based Siebel Systems also makes Oracle "a world leader" in customer relationship management, Ellison says. In enterprise resource planning software, which provides applications to help business manage product planning, parts purchasing and inventory management, Oracle is second, behind Germany's SAP, he says. _________________________________ InfoSec News v2.0 - Coming Soon! http://www.infosecnews.org
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