Well, October 2006 is almost in full effect and lots of exciting and interesting news in the IT arena are starting to percolate.
Firefox 2.0 to Go Live Today
Wow, the web browser that took the world (er web) by storm in just a few short years is doing it again. And it looks as though they’ve fixed some annoying bugs.
“We will not take bugs unless they are of great benefit: crashes, Web compatibility, and major regressions. IMHO [In My Honest Opinion] FF2 RC1 is already a tremendously superior product to FF 1.5. So let’s wrap this up!”
Go Mozilla go! 
VPNs: $23B And Growing
Wow, I didn’t know the VPN business was “thaaaat” lucrative. But here’s what I don’t get. I’m quite comfy with SSL via HTTP (https) in my web browser because it’s fast and convenient…no nagging, “slooooow” VPN clients to install. Heck, I even use HTTPS to do all of my online banking with TD Canada Trust, which is one of Canada’s biggest banks that’s also highly rated in the web banking arena. Now, if it’s good enough for Canada’s Top 5 banks who are fussy about security, then what’s the big deal with these VPN clients? Oh well!!
SSL-VPNs offer the promise of simple remote access connectivity since from an end user standpoint they typically involve just a Web browser to access a corporate network.
They differ from their principal technology competitor IPSec VPNs in that IPSec typically requires an additional client application.
Earlier this year, Infonetics reported that IPSec (define) is currently dominant though losing ground over the next few years to SSL-VPN-based VPNs (define).
Now that’s more like it.
I’ll add more stuff to this later. After all, it “is” Saturday here in Nairobi, and I’m itching to do something exciting tonight…so I gotta make some plans.
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