Information Age (London, UK) articles from August 2004

Information Age (London, UK) archives from August 2004

Laying the foundations.(implementing service-oriented architecture)
August 10, 2004... Almost every CIO agrees that implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) will help their business. But how do organisations with an existing, complicated infrastructure get there? Tom Rhinelander of the New Rowley Group gives his...

Market data.(web services)
August 10, 2004... Demand for web services technology is rising, as businesses use the technology for integration projects, and react to the need for greater agility and increased integration between business applications. The Gartner Group says that sales of...

Month in review.(technology industry news)
August 10, 2004... Oracle's antitrust trial with the US Department of Justice (DoJ) over its proposed merger with PeopleSoft produced some revealing evidence from witnesses during the month-long hearing. A Microsoft executive told the Court that the software...

Adobe makes its move into content management.
August 10, 2004... Publishing software specialist Adobe has been getting experimental for some time. Although it is remaining loyal to its successful desktop products, it has recently started focusing on server software and workshop collaboration tools - a world...

Oracle buys its way back into BPM.(business process management)
August 10, 2004... Software giant Oracle has been neither the most vociferous nor the most highly regarded supplier of services oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) technology, but its latest acquisition may be about to change that....

QAD's lean manufacturing mission.
August 10, 2004... "A customer wants three things from a software provider," asserts Pam Lopker, chairman and president of QAD, a US-based mid-market enterprise resource planning (ERP) software provider for manufacturing companies. "Its current services, a clear...

Single point of failure.
August 10, 2004... When US government scientists drew up the blueprint for what is now the Internet, they designed the network so it had no single point of failure. If part of the network was lost in the event of war, then the rest would continue to work. ...

Wireless drivers.(World Rally Championship)
August 10, 2004... Combining two different wireless technologies, putting them together for just a few days at a time, and then breaking down the set-up and moving it to another country sounds, at best, a risky undertaking. But this is how the World Rally...

Compassionate Capitalism.(book review)(Book Review)
August 10, 2004... Chief executives saying they have a long-term plan to give away valuable company resources can reasonably expect a hostile reception from investors. But this is exactly the line taken by Marc Benioff, the founder and CEO of Salesforce. com, in...

On the up and up.(Brief Article)
August 10, 2004... It seems the true badge of a high-tech CEO these days is to commit his or her vision to 300-plus pages of print. Sometimes the result is pure marketing brochure. But occasionally, the result is worthwhile. For On the Up and Up, Jeff Rodek,...

Three's a crowd.(VP of IT business systems for DaimlerChrysler gives evidence in Oracle antitrust case)
August 10, 2004... Giving evidence during the Oracle-PeopleSoft takeover hearing in San Francisco last month, Michael Gorriz, the VP of IT business systems for DaimlerChrysler, made a statement that was initially puzzling, but, as its meaning become clear,...

An alternative Brew to Java.
August 10, 2004... Urban legend it may be, but one wily investor living in San Diego, California is said to drive a car with the licence plate 'QC Rocks', in tribute to Qualcomm, the mobile communications company that provided much of his fortune. Qualcomm,...

The renaissance of Tibco.
August 10, 2004... If the executives of Tibco, the integration software company, seemed to have a bit of swagger about them as they outlined their plans for their recently completed acquisition - the UK software company Staffware - then it is understandable....

The state of the CIO.(chief information officers)(Brief Article)
August 10, 2004... The indicators of a recovery keep mounting. A new survey of senior IT managers (mostly CIOs and IT directors) by recruitment consultant Harvey Nash has found that more companies are increasing rather than cutting their IT budgets this year -...

Touching the void.
August 10, 2004... Almost everyone in IT can name a technology project they have been personally involved with that never lived up to its original promise. But no matter how carefully scoped and crafted the project, it has often been the way the organisation has...

Built to order.
August 10, 2004... Few mobile phone users will have heard of a company called Cellon, but approximately 14 million of them worldwide rely on its technology. As one of the world's leading suppliers of product design and development services to mobile phone...

Funds transfer.(migration of new automated clearing system)
August 10, 2004... For any organisation that uses the BACS financial clearing house system to honour supplier invoices, collect direct debits from customers or transfer wages to employees, 1 January 2006 is an unbreakable deadline. By that date, all 40,000 BACS...

Man of events.(Biography)
August 10, 2004... For the first year after David Luckham's book, The Power of Events, was published in 2002, it did what most technical books do: disappeared into the academic ether. The publishers, he says, didn't promote it at all, and its technical nature put...

Maturing identity.
August 10, 2004... The question of identity has always been a nightmare for both IT and its users. Determining whether someone is authorised to connect to a corporate system and what they are actually allowed to see and use has historically been tackled by...

A standard response.
August 10, 2004... Executives of EMC were in a confessional mood during a series of keynote presentations at the storage company's US headquarters in June. It was surely no coincidence that the same PowerPoint slide kept reappearing in different presentations...

A degree of security.(operating and financial review)
August 10, 2004... At first glance, the UK government's evolving efforts to tighten up corporate governance look like reading material solely for chief executives, MDs and finance directors. But on closer inspection, the Draft Regulations on the Operating and...

Salesforce floats to end software.
August 10, 2004... On 23 June, when Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff rang the bell to open the New York Stock Exchange on the morning of his company's initial public offering (IPO), he might have hoped he was also sounding the death knell for the software industry...

Bluetooth take-up.(Brief Article)
August 10, 2004... After some delays, Bluetooth, the short range wireless technology is finally set to become a ubiquitous feature of mobile phones, handheld computers and even cars. Estimates from Gartner, the analyst house, suggest that 161 million...

Flying the Linux standard.
August 10, 2004... When Microsoft's UK marketing director Nick Barley opened his company's 'Get the Facts Roadshow' in London in June - an initiative designed to dispel some of the 'myths' about the Linux operating system - he remarked that supporters of the open...

IT managers overworked, undervalued and insecure.(Brief Article)
August 10, 2004... Managers in the UK IT sector are overworked, put business ahead of family and rarely get on with their bosses, according to a recent survey conducted by The Chartered Management Institute in England, and Adecco, the global human resources...

First mobile virus strikes.(first mobile phone worm 'Cabir')(Brief Article)
August 10, 2004... It was always only going to be a matter of time before it happened: the world's first mobile phone worm has arrived. Fortunately, the worm, known as 'Cabir', was not released into the wild, but was emailed anonymously to antivirus software...

Letter from America.(war on spam )
August 10, 2004... Plans to establish a list of email addresses able to permanently opt out of direct marketing have been ditched by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the US government agency leading the war on spam. The FTC concluded that a 'Do Not Email'...

Security spending rising rapidly.(Information technology)
August 10, 2004... When Tom Scholtz of IT analyst firm Meta Group told an Information Age conference last year that many businesses should be spending as much as 8% of their IT budgets on security products and services by 2005, he was pilloried by some delegates....

Software 'undervalued' by directors.(Brief Article)
August 10, 2004... What is more important: a new company car or a new software package? (On second thoughts, don't answer that.) The Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) thinks that company directors have got their priorities wrong. At a recent seminar...

A strange brew...(outsourcing)
August 10, 2004... Are Western economies fighting back against the threat of offshore outsourcing? Kris Gopalakrishnan is in no doubt. As chief operating officer at Infosys, one of India's 'big five' outsourcing companies, he is exposed to some strange attempts...

DHL founder to co-host Infoconomy Leadership Day.(Brief Article)
August 10, 2004... Dave Allen OBE - the 'D' in DHL - has signed up to co-host Infoconomy's forthcoming Effective IT Leadership Day at the Wentworth Club, Surrey, in October. Allen, who co-founded DHL, the world's leading express and logistics company, is the...

Netegrity: Identity affirmed.(Brief Article)
August 10, 2004... The task of managing user identity and access levels across different applications has become a minefield for most enterprises. As a result, a vast number of vendors have been rushing into the space from all corners of security software. That...

XML and Web Services 2004.(Brief Article)
August 10, 2004... Leading figures from the software integration sector are to speak at Information Age's forthcoming XML and Web Services conference in London on 29-30 September. Confirmed speakers include: David Luckham, pioneer of the 'event-driven...

The politics of offshore outsourcing.
August 10, 2004... At a recent Information Age conference, Srinjay Sengupta, a vice president at the Indian offshore software company Infosys, was asked if he thought that the build-up of negative sentiment against offshore outsourcing activities should be...

New IBM Unix server promises "more with less".
August 10, 2004... Given that most industry analysts have for a long time regarded the computer server market as largely commoditised, it was something of a surprise in June to see IBM, with much bombast and hyperbole, take the wraps of a new Unix server line...