The news beat: In a security fix not to be missed, Oracle patches 88 holes with its quarterly security update. The vulnerabilities span its database and app server, as well as JD Edwards and PeopleSoft applications. Google tweaks its privacy policy to offer more details about the practice and make it easier to understand. Unisys, meanwhile, swings to a loss and plans to cut 3,600 jobs. Hot review: The InfoWorld Test Center looks at a smart switch for smaller SANs, the Maxxan MXV250. This little number brings mirroring, replication, interoperability and easy configuration to the mid-range market. “It should definitely be on the short list for SAN administrators who would like to move their storage applications to the fabric,” writes Logan Harbaugh. Quoteworthy: I really don’t know that I’d want to be in a room with 500 MS developers being critiqued for their lack of security implementation. Don’t get me wrong, I like developers, just not that many all in one place. I tend to dream in assembly for days and have flashbacks of Sockets programming after being exposed to that many coders. — Victor Garza, in Blue Hat Pie. Columnists’ Corner: After accepting “an offer he couldn’t refuse” our anonymous IT Off the Record author finds himself working on a mysterious Web project for two years of 80-hour work weeks, only to be let go shortly thereafter. The lesson: know your employer and who at the company is working against you. Technology Industry