E-Commerce from Y2K

I was going through some of the work i did in the past.
Stumbled upon a piece of work i did way back in Year 2000.

Interestingly i prepared an E-Commerce Framework,
but the company i used to work for was not interested
at that time much in it.

Later i realised they are body-shoppers not really R&D
specialists....

So it dont make business sense to them :(

If only we could have built a ecommerce framework
we would have been competing with other products
in the market now.

Just vision is not enough, you need capital to make it possible :(

Attached is the ppt i prepared in year 2000 :)
Happy to see the products that are competing in this space today
are based on those underpinnings...

How to be safe online

Preface
A lot of my friends keep asking me about how to be safe online. Recently i heard that one of my friends bank account was hacked and a money transfer was made which was not initiated by him. The bank agreed to refund the fradulent money transfer, but it had put him under risk and he was under fear of losing all the money he had on his account. I noticed another of my friends facebook account was hacked and a lot of unwanted applications were reading his profile.

I agreed to jot down some tips and tricks of how to be safe online. ( FinePrint : This is not 100% fool proof, but it is intended to help you to be safer than before )

How to be safe online
In today's social IT framework it is very difficult to keep yourself ( your ID ) and
your online transactions safe. If you follow the tips below, it will help you to be a safer
Netizen online.

a) Doubt everything. A popular mechanism used by the fraudsters is a technique called
Phishing. If you receive an email from a bank, asking to visit their website and login
to confirm some details, there is probably a catch. Well, it may not be the bank at all who sent you that email. When you click on the link in the email, it takes you to a site that looks like the bank website, whereas it may not be so. Do not trust a link sent in the email on its face value. Check for the lock sign and the certificates of the site. Better still, you go to the bank website directly.

b) Cookies : Keep clearing your cookies and internet history and automatic password storage. They help tracking between sites. Some sites orchestrate between themselves to share the cookies left in your system for their marketing benefits. Which is what is useful to the fraudsters.

c) Spywares : Most often, it is those spywares that get to your PC / Laptop which is responsible for watching your online activities and reporting to a fraud organisation. Use an appropriate spyware. I would recommend, McAfee, Symantec, Comodo or Lavasoft tools.

d) Firewall : Use a proper software firewall and prevent all incoming accesses beyond the firewall into your network. This way the fraudsters will not be able to take control of your PC / Laptop.

e) Anti-Virus : Use a proper anti virus software, which can save you from trojan viruses, which opens your PC / Laptop to outsiders.

e) Public : Avoid using online banking from public PC's , internet centers, and hotel systems. Avoid using public unsecure WiFi, and incase if you are in urgency and must get into hotel/airport WiFi networks, use the web through a secure VPN and proxy of your company. Remember all unsecure WiFi communications are traceable by a fraud user who can share the same connection with you on the same unsecure WiFi.

f) Encrypt Hard disk : If possible encrypt your hard disk using hard disk encryption software. This saves you from your data getting literally hijacked from your hard disk, if you happen to loose your laptop.

g) Portable disks : Do not keep confidential data on portable disks. Simply for the reason that, if you loose your disk, you loose your confidential data. If you must, then use an encryption software on it.

h) Change passwords : Change your online passwords once in 30 days. Do not maintain all passwords in a single keystore file. You can use a clue list in the keystore which can help you recollect, but do not store the password itself.

i) Social websites : Facebook / Orkut / Myspace / LinkedIn - Take extra care when you use the socialisation sites. Do not give all your personal data in them. And in facebook stop using all those unwanted applications which says they need access to your profile.

j) Torrents / Download sites : Be sure of what you are downloading does not download that extra bit, which you do not want to get into your PC. Nothing is free in this materialistic world.

k) Too good to be true offers : If an offer sounds too good to be true, probably it is. Recently one of the youngsters received an email stating that this company saw his cv on a popular job site and is in touch with him to recruit him with a pay of £1500 a month. And all this is to work from home for just 6 hrs a day.. Sounded too good to be true. Upon verification, the from address was from a personal mail id and not a company id. When googled about this mail subject, there were popular discussions about money laundering work offered in guise of a payment processing officer work.

Hope this helps...

1,719,574,100

1,719,574,100 - That is the number of concurrent users, using the internet when i was checking it.

Take a look at this linkhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8552415.stm

Click start and stop when you want, you will see the number of users using the internet

at that point of time..

Go tohttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8552410.stm

That will show you the growth of internet user from the year 1998.

Its truly amazing.. Wow...

I loved it..

Oracle Buys SUN

And now Oracle owns Java and the SUN hardware platform ?

which makes it the single largest competitor for Microsoft
with all powerful products in its array.

If you are a serious enterprise, then you need Oracle products which complement each other to run your IT platform...

Once Gandhi said "I want world sympathy in the fight of right against the might".
Now oracle is fighting might with might..
What is right ?
let us wait and see.....

more blah blah blah will be here shortly..

Oracle Fusion

Finally Oracle had a wonderful strategy.
They bought PeopleSoft, Siebel, Tuxedo and then BEA.

For an outsider at the first look it might look like, they made lot of money out of
RDBMS and ERP and they are spending now.

Whereas Oracle has put their money in where the future is and have slowly integrated
these products together through FUSION middleware.

Fusion again is a great concept from oracle, using the latest industry standards for integration.
You name it, its there.
> ESB
> Service Oriented Architecture
> XML, Webservices, Adapters
> SOA Governance
> A Powerful application server (Thanks for the deal with BEA :¬) )
>BPEL Tools
> BAM (business activity monitoring)
> SAML
> Idenity management
> J2EE
> Jdeveloper studio.

Now there are three types of techies approaching these
> Those who come from Oracle, forms, PL/SQL background
> Those who come from strong EAI and SOA background
> Those who come from strong J2EE background.

Now each techie based on which of these three backgrounds they come from, would and will think that they can have a good hold on fusion.

The truth is, whichever background techies come from they have to be quick in learning about the other side of the wall to mature into a proper fusion expert.

My view is that, Fusion has been guided into an excellent launching pad by Oracle and will stay in the industry for a forseeable future. Its got all flavours to make it successful.

The competitors are behind now. But to bring in variety of robust products together will remain a challenge difficult to be fulfilled in near future.

Oracle has clearly seen this in advance and is leveraging on it strategic strength now.

The nearest competitor initially refused that there is concept called ESB for a while and is now starting to accept it.. When they will catch up with fusion may be a distant dream..

Another competitor who drove ESB from forefront has failed to see that there are other products required to make ESB successful. Thats where i think Oracle gained its edge.

The beauty of their strategic vision is when oracle realised that BEA's Weblogic is more powerful App server than their own and accepted it and brought it under its wings.

Anyway you look at it, there is definitely an exciting future with FUSION.

You can expect some more about fusion from me for now..

I am so excited about this.

TekNova

I have now separated the blog contents into
> TekNova
> JustATravellingSoldier

I will be writing all the technical gobbings in TekNova,
while JustATravellingSoldier blog which is going to deal with
interesting facts and happenings in this interesting journey called life.

Enjoy.. or Ensoy as in TN

parthiban kanavu

Recently i was travelling from chennai to london and i had around 2 hours wait before the boarding gate. I walked around found a book shop and entered inside.
I skimmed through lots of books and finally settled for parthiban kanavu written by amarar kalki.

The story is excellent set in the scenes of Chola and Pallava rule.
Mainly that the Chola kingdom is shrunk and Pallavas are dominating.
The Chola king paarthiban has a dream to establish the Chola kingdom back to its original glory. But he dies in a war with pallavas. He conveys his dream to his son vikrama cholan and his wife.
vikrama happens to meet narasimha pallavans daughter kundhavi and falls in love with her.
Meanwhile Narasimha had met Paarthiban during his death time and gets to know about his dream.
Secretly he tries to help vikrama chola to establish chola kindom.
i will stop here and let you read this excellent novel as i cannot present in the same style as Kalki.
The novel is written in an excellent way. it has
> politics
> love
> emotions
> tamil traditions
> informaiton about how tamil nadu was
> saiva
> truth
and many more..

I strongly advice do not miss it..