ActiveX is fairly scary, because it pretty much runs or it doesn't run, ... ActiveX has a far less granular security architecture than Java, but neither are secure.

As the market grows, it's no surprise to see larger vendors get involved.

This is the future of the business. What we are now referring to as the extranet will become the totality of IT, ... But unless you find a way to secure the systems, there is no way to expose them.

I hope this will serve as a wake-up call for the product vendors that they have to think strategically about security and not approach it tacitly by tacking it on at the end of the 11th hour, ... In the Money.