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http://www.redherring.com ------------------------------------------------------------ TOP STORY: Forget about Bush and Gore. If the technology sector is to continue its recent rally, Larry Ellison's Oracle had better produce the strong numbers the market expects from Oracle's application software business. * Ellison rests up for battle http://www.redherring.com/investor/2000/1213/inv-oracle121300.html ------------------------------------------------------------ A D V E R T I S E M E N T IBM and our business partners offer you a comprehensive, scalable, e-business infrastructure. With open standards and end-to-end solutions. Register to download a complimentary copy of our new white paper, Computing in an e-business World, at: http://www.ibm.com/e-business/infrastructure/ready326 A D V E R T I S E M E N T ------------------------------------------------------------ Insecurity complex Under Thornton May's name, on his Guardent business card, is a Fast Company-esque title: "Corporate Futurist and Chief Awareness Officer." As if it's possible to not be aware of Thornton. He's unignorable, a kinetic public speaker and staccato conversationalist. These are good traits, given what he's trying to drum up awareness for: Guardent's service of building secure information infrastructures. Most security services (monitoring services, hackers-for- hire, etc.) generally don't probe the weakest links in any system: the people. Thornton's out to educate a whole class of IT professionals about human behavior -- what to look for in on-staff security risks, and how to behave with other professionals so as to better exchange information about security. Sounds like a great consulting gig, but Thornton is very dismissive of consultants. He claims that Guardent's 160 people are, in fact, hyperspecialists on security, and that Guardent is one of a new kind of company that will rise from the ashes of the great e-consulting washout: focused, best- of-breed, expert organizations. The challenge to come, he says, will be the corporate customer's who, fed up with broad but shallow consulting firms, will have to learn how to tightly integrate contracted, fanatical specialists into their own teams. - Rafe Needleman, rafe-needleman@redherring.com Editor, http://www.redherring.com FURTHER READING * Does the collapse of consultants mean more work for the rest of us? Discuss! http://boards.redherring.com/WebX?13@38642@.ee6d7bd??* Company site: Guarde= nt?http://www.guardent.com??* Head Count: Thornton joined Guardent in Augus= t?http://www.redherring.com/companies/2000/0828/com-headcount082800.html??*= Will consult for food?http://www.redherring.com/investor/2000/1211/inv-con= sulting121100.html??* Special Report! Picking the locks on the Internet sec= urity?market?http://www.redherring.com/insider/2000/0724/tech-fea-security-= home.html??* Open source: The next big management trend??http://www.redherr= ing.com/cod/2000/1106.html??* Catch of the Day: Qualys and Counterpane?http= ://www.redherring.com/cod/2000/0818.html??* The Red Eye: The ultimate hack?= http://www.redherring.com/insider/2000/1031/tech-redeye103100.html??* Hacke= rs go corporate?http://www.redherring.com/mag/issue71/news-security.html??*= Wall Street, VCs seek security shields after hack attacks?(February)?http:= //www.redherring.com/insider/2000/0210/tech-hacks021000.html??* Home firewa= lls are in your future (February)?http://www.redherring.com/insider/2000/02= 01/tech-athome020100.html??------------------------------------------------= ------------?A D V E R T I S E M E N T??SPENDING MILLIONS ON TECHNOLOGY? ST= ILL NOT A DIGITAL?BUSINESS? The authors of The Profit Zone tell you how to?= create entirely new, profitable and unique value?propositions using technol= ogy. For details and excerpts:??http://www.howdigitalisyourbusiness.com/red= herring2?A D V E R T I S E M E N T?----------------------------------------= --------------------??INSIDE TECH?In Wireless Watch: Wireless data is start= ing up the fight?for online privacy once again, and this time the governmen= t?is stepping into the ring.??* Wireless Watch: Got privacy??http://www.red= herring.com/insider/2000/1213/tech-ww121300.html???INVESTOR?Wit Soundview t= echnology strategist Arnold Berman says?investors should not look for hot n= ew technologies to emerge?in 2001. But companies like Brocade, Ciena, and J= DS Uniphase?that are helping to make the Web, the current big thing,?even b= etter should do well.??* Now's not the time for the next big thing?http://w= ww.redherring.com/investor/2000/1213/inv-mag-87-tactics121300.html???VC & S= TARTUPS?In VC P.S.: Venture capitalist Bill Elkus talks about?lessons learn= ed from Nehru collars, the problem with?investing in buzzword sectors, why = B2C won't come back, and?lots more. And in Dealflow: Ben Affleck, Matt Damo= n lend?Liveplanet luster; Access360 gets access to $41.5M;?Campusengine lay= s off 33; Exem pitches for $3 million to $5?million; and more.??* VC P.S.: = Idealab's other Bill, part 2?http://www.redherring.com/vc/2000/1213/vc-vcps= 121300.html??* Dealflow: Video Networks keeps the news flowing?http://www.r= edherring.com/vc/2000/1213/vc-ltr-dealflow121300.html???RED HERRING MAGAZIN= E?Briefing: In real-life 2001, Hal will be a diffuse?collection of Net-conn= ected devices. The Internet has taken?hold, and with it the decentralizatio= n of our computing?culture. Also, with new manufacturing methods, better?en= gineering software, and the general efficiency of the Web,?the independent = designer car is faster, cheaper, and easier?than ever to build. And VC firm= eVolution intends to bring?the credibility and business-building experienc= e of its big-?name backers to large corporations that lack entrepreneurial?= skills.??* Distributed computing shapes the new world order?http://www.redh= erring.com/mag/issue87/mag-computing-87.html??* Startup Model E finds its o= wn road?http://www.redherring.com/mag/issue87/mag-designer-87.html??* EVolu= tion makes arthritic corporations youthful?http://www.redherring.com/mag/is= sue87/mag-venture-87.html??------------------------------------------------= ------------??FREE email newsletters from Redherring.com!??Want insight int= o the hot IPO market, long-term investing?strategies, future technologies, = stocks to watch, venture?capital funding, and more? Get FREE email newslett= ers in?your inbox from Redherring.com, with the insight, analysis,?and opin= ion to help you make more strategic business and?personal investing decisio= ns. 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