IT world 2005: 10 memorable moments

With every trend, there is always a moment that gathers into "essence". Let's look back at Infoworld in 2005 full of recent events, fluctuations and seismic events with 10 such slices.

1. January 1, 2005: Wal-Mart, US Department of Defense requested RFID deployment

Whether ripe or not, finally RFID knocked on the door. The top 100 product suppliers for Wal-Mart retail are required to apply RFID barcodes right from the first day of 2005. That same day, the US Department of Defense's decision required every home. Supply must use RFID technology began to take effect.

2. January 7, 2005: Oracle completed the purchase of PeopleSoft

2005 is the year of big mergers. Although Oracle bought 10.3 billion dollars to acquire PeopleSoft was not the most expensive "marriage" of the year (Symantec generously spent $ 13.5 billion to swallow Veritas in July), though However, everyone knows how the "questioning" process of Oracle is difficult and difficult.

3. April 5, 2005: The book "The World is Flat" is published

For the first time, the hidden corners of the "rough machining" problem are pulled out of light in the book by Thomas Friedman about this globalization. Until the end of this year, all the controversy surrounding rough processing or protection of domestic workers in the US has not cooled down at all.

4. May 22, 2005: CardSystems system was attacked

The security gap in the credit system of CardSystems has caused more than 40 million credit card numbers to fall into the hands of hackers. This incident is the culmination of a "disaster" of network security and security, with a series of scandal. Along with it is the tendency of laptops or personal computers to contain stolen sensitive information to exploit data inside. Finally, consumers are always the ones who suffer the most.

5. June 14, 2005: Sun launched Solaris openly

On June 14, Sun Microsystems released Solaris as an open source software and publicized the source code of the operating system. Solaris is one of the many technologies that Sun decided to open source in 2005, in order to create a boost for open source technology in the corporate customer segment.
6. June 28, 2005: AMD sues Intel

An important transfer of power that no newspaper can ignore. AMD, a lifelong man who has regretted his "bottom-up" status, has strengthened his position by promoting dual-core chips, and a federal lawsuit accuses Intel of unfair competition. At the same time, Intel also faced a few other "sluggish" falls.

7. September 21, 2005: Continue to postpone the implementation of SOX law

For the third time in a row, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was forced to delay the deadline for companies with revenues of less than US $ 75 million in the US to enforce the Sarbanes-Oxley 404 tax law into a new term: 15 / 7/2007.

8. September 21, 2005: Massachusetts voted through Open Document

On September 21, the Massachusetts Public Utilities Commission adopted a decision whose importance goes beyond the state territory. The decision to standardize Open Document format has sparked a fierce debate, drawing attention to open source standards and also forcing Microsoft to speed up submission of Office Open XML formats to the Standard Association. International ISO.

9. October 4, 2005: Google announced the launch of OpenOffice

Web 2.0 is proving its powerful attraction. Google and Sun have made a general statement that Google will release a client version of Sun OpenOffice via the Internet on a good day. Soon after, Microsoft continued to chase after its rival when it announced Live Software, a plan to provide software as a service via the Web.

10. November 7, 2005: SQL Server, Visual Studio 2005 released

These two highly anticipated products of Microsoft are highly appreciated, bringing many improvements, improving performance and stability for deployment systems.

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