Saints or sinners?

Doug Woodburn
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Oracle customers who scan its code to find vulnerabilities were branded ‘sinners' by an Oracle executive. But should the vendor be encouraging the practice, asks Doug Woodburn?

In May this year, Oracle was picked as enterprises' least favourite software vendor in a survey conducted by IDC, finishing last in all categories covering areas such as licensing complexity, ease ...

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