Computerworld articles from April 2003

Computerworld archives from April 2003

Sun launches fresh attack on low-end server market: price cuts and new hardware with bundled software mark strategy to compete against Intel.(Sun Fire V210 and Sun Fire V240 )
April 7, 2003... Sun Microsystems Inc. tomorrow will announce two low-end Solaris servers featuring integrated software stacks that it will position as lower-cost alternatives to Intel Corp. servers running Linux. Sun will also introduce a new family of...

Struggling airlines scrutinize IT projects amid mounting losses: pressure is on to show significant ROI or to boost bottom line.
April 7, 2003... As they struggle to survive an economic downturn that's being exacerbated by the war in Iraq, U.S. airlines are taking an increasingly demanding look at return on investment and "transformational" benefits before funding IT projects. ...

i2 beset by restatements, SEC probe: user group says it still backs reeling supply chain software vendor.
April 7, 2003... The fortunes of i2 Technologies Inc. took another turn for the worse last week, as the struggling supply chain software vendor disclosed that the Securities and Exchange Commission has launched a full-blown investigation of its accounting...

HealthSouth CIO fired over finances. (At Deadline).(Kenneth Livesay)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... HealthSouth Corp. in Birmingham, Ala., said it fired CID Kenneth Livesay after he pleaded guilty to federal charges of falsifying financial information and conspiracy to commit wire and securities fraud. Livesay was one of five HealthSouth...

Microsoft to alter XP's start menu. (At Deadline).(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Microsoft Corp. said it will give a more prominent place in the Windows XP start menu to a program that helps users set products from other vendors as their default software. The company agreed to make the change as part of its antitrust...

Sybase, PeopleSoft say Q1 below plan. (At Deadline).(2003)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Sybase Inc. in Dublin, Calif., and PeopleSoft Inc. in Pleasanton, Calif., both warned that their first-quarter financial results will be lower than expected. Sybase CEO John Chen said users deferred "numerous" planned software purchases because...

Network Associates buying two vendors. (At Deadline).(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Network Associates Inc. in Santa Clara, Calif., said it plans to buy two San Jose-based companies that sell intrusion-prevention technology. Network Associates will pay $120 million in cash to acquire Entercept Security Technologies Inc. and...

Microsoft adds wireless security support to XP: free software replaces less secure WEP with new Wi-Fi Protected Access specs. (WLANs).
April 7, 2003... MICROSOFT CORP. last week added support for a new set of wireless LAN security specifications to Windows XP, and WLAN hardware that uses the same specs is expected from several vendors later this month. Microsoft said software that complies...

CA to hand off more users to resellers: changes sales strategy for three software lines. (News).
April 7, 2003... Computer Associates International Inc. last week announced restructuring moves in its IT services and indirect sales organizations, including a plan to put more emphasis on using channel partners to sell some of its key products. As part...

IBM, Oracle take shots at BEA: try to lure users away from rival's application server. (News).
April 7, 2003... There is really no subtlety to the attacks that IBM and Oracle Corp. are hurling at rival BEA Systems Inc. Oracle last week directed a "switch-and-save" migration program squarely at users of BEA's WebLogic application server. At no...

Unisys ES7000 features new design, entry price. (News).(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Unisys Corp. today will announce a variation of its Windows-based 32-way enterprise server that has a price and design configuration intended to attract midrange users. At its data center lab here, Unisys last week previewed part of its...

Microsoft reveals Office packaging options. (News).(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Microsoft Corp. last week unveiled the packaging options that will be available for its Office System 2003 family of applications, which is due this summer. Simon Marks, a product manager at Microsoft, said he expects that the majority of...

Dell stands by Q1 growth goals. (Briefs).(2003)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Despite the war in Iraq and continuing economic uncertainty, Dell Computer Corp. said it expects to meet targets of doubledigit growth in revenue, unit shipments and earnings during its first quarter. Dell reaffirmed its prediction that revenue...

Peregrine amends Bankruptcy course. (Briefs).(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Peregrine Systems Inc., an asset management software vendor in San Diego, filed a revised reorganization plan with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware after talks with its creditors. Some of the creditors now support the plan, Peregrine said,...

Sprint plans IP network for feds. (Briefs).(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Sprint Corp. announced plans to launch a private IP network for use as an intranet by security-conscious U.S. government agencies. The company said the government network, which is due to be ready by midyear, will offer most of the same...

Hewlett-Packard Co. (Short Takes).(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... HEWLETT-PACKARD CO. cut the prices of its midrange Unix servers by about 200/0 and said it will offer users free in-factory configuration services, including the setup of system partitions.

Suse Linux AG. (Short Takes).(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... SUSE LINUX AG in Nuremburg, Germany, said it has delayed its shipment of an enterprise desktop version of Linux from the first quarter to June.

Sun, Apple ignite new desktop skirmish. (On the Mark).(and related article)
April 7, 2003... ... with Microsoft Corp. While it's doubtful that either company will be able to unseat Windows' monopoly status in the PC market, you've got to admire their pluck. Sun Microsystems Inc.'s attack on Microsoft's desktop fortress is called...

Cisco upgrades Catalyst 6500 switch line. (News).(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Cisco Systems Inc. last week unveiled six modules and other technology upgrades for its Catalyst 6500 Series switches, including a new processing engine that the company said will nearly triple the performance of its existing switches. ...

War, economic woes put drag on IT hires: report says fourth-quarter hiring was down compared with earlier quarters. (News).(2002 Dice Inc. and Information Technology Association of America report)(Industry Overview)
April 7, 2003... WEAK BUSINESS conditions and fears about the potential impact of a war with Iraq led many U.S. companies to hold back on hiring IT employees during last year's fourth quarter, according to a report released last week. The report by Dice...

Dell, Oracle team on non-unix clustering. duo wants users to migrate servers. (News).
April 7, 2003... Dell Computer Corp. CEO Michael Dell and Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison sat shoulder to shoulder last week to detail a growing alliance built around selling clustered server systems to enterprises. Their message: RISC/Unix systems are being...

Judge dismisses GTE's Y2k suit. (Briefs).(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... A U.S. District Court judge in New Jersey has dismissed a $381 million lawsuit that the former GTE Corp. filed four years ago in a bid to recoup its year 2000 remediation costs from five insurers. The judge ruled that the insurance policies...

Deloitte decides to keep IT unit. (Briefs).(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... New York-based Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu said it's dropping plans to spin off its IT consulting unit. The company announced in February 2002 that it would separate Deloitte Consulting from its accounting business to avoid potential conflicts of...

Web Services group to take on security. (Briefs).(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) in Palo Alto, Calif., said it has set up a working group to develop proposed security specifications for Web services applications. It will examine interoperability-related issues such as...

Microsoft Corp. (Short Takes).(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... MICROSOFT CORP. Later this year plans to release versions of its Great Plains, Navision and Solomon business applications with unified pricing and packing for companies with up to 100 employees.

Gateway Inc. (Short Takes).(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Poway, Calif.-based GATEWAY INC. said it will reduce the revenue it reported for 2000 and 2001 by a combined total of $470 million.

3Com software-based IP switch being tested: company hopes high-end product will help its re-entry into enterprise market. (Networking).(and rlated article)
April 7, 2003... A HIGH-END, software-based IP switch from 3Com Corp. is being tested by four large companies for general release in August as part of the network device maker's efforts to re-establish itself in the enterprise marketplace. Last week, 3Com...

EMC joins Brocade in push for storage virtualization technology: vendors sign deal to put EMC's storage management software on SAN switches. (News).
April 7, 2003... EMC Corp. last week said it plans to develop storage management software for a new line of Brocade Communications Systems Inc. switches that support network-based storage virtualization. EMC is the second major storage vendor to embrace the...

Financial firms seek revision of WORM archiving rule: industry group asks SEC to allow adoption of newer storage technology. (News).(write-once, read-many)(Industry Overview)
April 7, 2003... Brokerages are lining up. against a 12-year-old regulation that requires them to store electronic documents on unchangeable optical media, saying the archival method is too expensive and cumbersome to manage and doesn't necessarily safeguard...

Handle corporate security as single entity users say: stress that IT security can't be divorced from physical, personnel security plans. (News).
April 7, 2003... COMPANIES can improve their ability to detect and respond to both cyber and physical threats by tying their IT security to other aspects of corporate security. But the cultural and business-process changes involved in implementing such a...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
April 7, 2003... A STORY THAT RAN in the March 31 News section ("Oracle Modifies Pricing, Bundling of Applications") reported that Oracle Corps had renamed its business applications E-Business Suite 2003. That is the name of a new software licensing model that...

SAS tries to broaden its software's appeal. (News).(SAS 9.1 adding features)
April 7, 2003... SAS Institute Inc. last week announced plans for an upgrade of its data analysis software that will expand a 10-month-old effort to simplify the technology so it can be used more widely within companies. The promised ease-of-use...

Sun bows to users, drops its own Linux. (News).(Sun Linux 5.0)
April 7, 2003... Sun Microsystems Inc. is ending a seven-month effort to establish its own Linux distribution, because of reluctance on the part of users to deal with yet another version of the open-source operating system. Sun spokeswoman Ann O'Leary said...

Web services are coming along, says BEA exec. (Q & A).(Adam Bosworth)(Interview)(Excerpt)
April 7, 2003... Adam Bosworth says he spends 50% of his time with corporate users in his role as chief architect and senior vice president of advanced development at BEA Systems Inc. in San Jose. Bosworth worked at Microsoft Corp. for 11 years before joining...

Credibility insurance. (Opinion).(IT project management)(Column)
April 7, 2003... LIFE WOULD BE INFINITELY EASIER for IT if there were no such thing as an IT project. And in fact, there isn't. Any project worth doing has to serve a business need, which in effect makes it a business project. So where are the suits when it's...

ASP redux: it's about service. (Opinion).(Industry Overview)
April 7, 2003... WHATEVER happened to all those application service providers? When they first appeared about four years ago, ASPs were going to change the way companies buy and use software. In the process, they were going to make corporate data centers...

Waiting for Longhorn. (Opinion).
April 7, 2003... I JUST CAME BACK from Microsoft's Analyst Summit in Redmond. Together with about 150 of my colleagues, I listened to a lot of presentations, many of which referred to Longhorn, the code name for the next-generation Windows client. Despite the...

Readers' letters.(Letter to the Editor)
April 7, 2003... The Real Cause of Employee Burnout I AM AFRAID that columnist Frank Hayes, Meta Group and apparently 71% of IT managers have missed the underlying issue of burnout ["Avoid Burnout," Quick-Link 37173]. People are tired, and they're asked to...

E-mail upgrade from the ground up. (Technology).(for Aventis Pharmaceuticals)
April 7, 2003... Aventis Pharmaceuticals' 55,000-user Exchange Server upgrade forced a complete rebuilding of its global IT infrastructure that has taken three years to complete. THREE YEARS after beginning a 55,000-user e-mail system upgrade that spans...

Web sites take full measure: Web performance monitoring tools can track activity from end to end, but setup and management can be difficult and costly. (Technology).(and related article)
April 7, 2003... IT WAS AN ONLINE retailer's worst nightmare. Most customers of the Louisville Slugger Museum's online gift shop arrived by way of Hillerich & Bradsby Co.'s home page for its famous bats, www.slugger.com. But last July, someone uploaded the...

CRM with a family touch: MyFamily.com turns to RightNow for a self-service system that reduces staffing needs and waiting time for customers. (Technology).
April 7, 2003... MYFAMILY.COM INC., an online genealogy service that connects families with their histories and one another, was beginning to feel the pinch of its own success last year. Providing top-notch customer service was becoming increasingly expensive...

The ins and outs of IT: a visionary looks to new technology models. (Q & A).(Jphn Parkinson of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young US. L.L.C.)(Interview)
April 7, 2003... John Parkinson is senior vice president and chief technologist for the Americas region of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young US. LLC in Chicago. He recently told Computerworld's Gary H. Anthes why he thinks IT outsourcing and agent-based systems will...

Directory glitch trips authentication efforts: interoperability issues derail an attempt to use an LDAP-based directory server for global authentication. (Technology).
April 7, 2003... I HAVE HAD MIXED success with a project to provide two-factor authentication access to our critical Unix and Windows NT servers. We want to setup a system that requires employees to use SecurID tokens for administrative access to our production...

Extreme launches switch modules. (Briefs).(Extreme Networks BlackDiamond G24T3 and 616X3)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Extreme Networks Inc. in Santa Clara, Calif.. last week announced two new BlackDiamond switch modules based on its Triumph chip set that are designed to improve Gigabit Ethernet switching migration. The G24T3 module has 24 copper ports, and the...

Adobe Acrobat 6 to ship next month. (Briefs).(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Adobe Systems Inc. in San Jose announced the upcoming release of Acrobat 6. The new version will support e-mail-based document review and change tracking, be able to consolidate changes into Word XP source documents and support public-key...

Procom releases new NAS filers. (Briefs).(Procom Technology NetForce 4000 )(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Procom Technology Inc. in Irvine, Calif., last week announced its NetForce 4000 series of network-attached storage (NAS) filers with improved performance, storage density and a modular design. The new file servers come with a 2Gbit/sec. Fibre...

IBM hires Perry Mason. (Technology).(SCO lawsuit against IBM)
April 7, 2003... SCO RECENTLY FILED a $1 billion lawsuit against IBM. The most notable allegations are that IBM leaked SCO intellectual property to Linux developers and that IBM used said intellectual property to make Linux competitive with SCO Unix in the...

In the Linux loop: companies that regularly share code fixes and revisions benefit from more stable and reliable open-source software. (Management).
April 7, 2003... USING OPEN-SOURCE software like Linux is a no-brainer for many companies. It's stable and can be fixed easily if bugs appear, and you can't beat the price. But some companies and government organizations are taking their commitment to open...

Market rally: an IT turnaround has brought the world's oldest commodities exchange back to profitability. (Management).
April 7, 2003... PICTURE 3,000 TRADERS in "the pit" waving their hands and screaming orders for stocks, bonds and commodities. Millions of dollars in investments are changing hands every minute. Suddenly, screens freeze; orders won't execute. Mayhem reigns as...

The elevator speech: turn a dreaded encounter into an opportunity for some high-level PR. (Management).
April 7, 2003... A FEW WEEKS AGO, The Wall Street Journal ran a column on the dreaded elevator encounter. It discussed the terror many rank-and-file employees feel at the thought of sharing a 30second ride with the CEO or some other top executive for fear...

Newsmaker. (Q & A).(Stephen Norman of Merrill Lynch)(Brief Article)(Interview)
April 7, 2003... Merrill Lynch & Co. has shrunk from 70,000 employees worldwide in 2001 to 53,500 today. Its 2003 IT budget of $2.2 billion is down 30% from two years ago. Yet miraculously. its IT training budget has remained intact, largely due to the fierce...

Assume nothing. Audit instead. (Management).
April 7, 2003... THE IT manager who assumes that a technology investment will meet or exceed an economic or return on investment forecast reminds me of the anecdote about the economist trapped in a burning building. "No problem," he says. "I'll assume a fire...

IT plans: stop or go? (The Back Page).(Industry Overview)
April 7, 2003... JUST WHEN WE THOUGHT the budget purse strings for IT projects were beginning to loosen, word comes that they're about to snap tight again. Last week, Morgan Stanley chief economist Stephen Roach told his clients that he now predicts a worldwide...

Lost and found. (Shark Tank).
April 7, 2003... User swears he hasn't deleted anything, but the eight years' worth of files that were on his laptop are gone. Support pilot fish can't find them either, and there's no backup. "Sorry," says fish, "but your data is lost." Angry user blocks the...

Finance law may force IT system overhauls: companies brace for full impact of new federal reporting regs.(the Sarbanes-Oxley Act)
April 14, 2003... The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the U.S. government's attempt to bring honesty, clarity and speed to corporate financial reporting, may ultimately require costly overhauls of budgeting, reporting and decision-support systems. But much remains...

IBM begins to plot integration of Rational tools: says it's working on a road map for the $2.1b acquisition; products may arrive later this year.
April 14, 2003... Developers hoping to hear IBM convey definitive plans for its new Rational tool line may have been disappointed at last week's developerWorks Live conference here. But through interviews, IBM executives began to provide more details about...

P&G chooses HP for outsourcing...and Ericsson signs similar deal. (At Deadline).(Brief Article)
April 14, 2003... Procter & Gamble Co. said it has signed a tentative deal, valued at $3 billion over 10 years, to outsource most of its IT operations to Hewlett-Packard Co. If finalized, the agreement would end the IT portion of an outsourcing negotiations saga...

P&G chooses HP for outsourcing...and Ericsson signs similar deal. (At Deadline).(Brief Article)
April 14, 2003... LM Ericsson Telephone Co. also announced plans to outsource IT activities to HP. Stockholm-based Ericsson said it has signed an agreement in principle with HP for a contract covering its worldwide IT operations, except for application...

Siebel asks FBI to probe leak. (At Deadline).(Brief Article)
April 14, 2003... Siebel Systems Inc. said it has asked the FBI to investigate a leak of excerpts from its third-quarter 2002 customer-satisfaction survey showing that some user reviews were less than favorable. The San Mateo, Calif.-based CRM software vendor...

CIO plans to leave AT&T Wireless. (At Deadline).(Michael Benson)(Brief Article)
April 14, 2003... AT&T Wireless Services Inc. in Redmond, Wash., confirmed that CIO Michael Benson submitted his resignation on April 10. A company spokesman said the move wasn't related to planned layoffs, which are expected to include cutbacks in IT.

Programmer testing services get wary reception from IT: some CIOs say exams can't measure key capabilities beyond coding skills. (News).
April 14, 2003... INFORMATION technology executives last week had mixed reactions to the emergence of so-called programmer testing services that can be used to measure and rank the accuracy and technical know-how of both offshore and domestic software...

EMC fine-tunes Centera array for data retention: adds technology to aid compliance with new rules. (News).
April 14, 2003... EMC Corp. last week announced a specialized version of its Centera fixed-data disk array for financial services firms and other companies that need to comply with new regulations on retaining e-mail and ensuring the authenticity of their...

Hitachi, Cisco plan key rollouts at storage networking show: will announce NAS, IP switch products. (News).
April 14, 2003... Cisco Systems Inc. and Hitachi Data Systems. Corp. both plan to use this week's Storage Networking World conference to announce major additions to their storage product lines. The conference starts today in Phoenix and is cosponsored by...

NetWare stalwarts remain loyal despite dwindling market share: most users want to stay with NOS 'as long as possible'. (News: Special Report).
April 14, 2003... THE THOUSANDS of NetWare faithful meeting this week at Novell Inc.'s annual BrainShare user conference in Salt Lake City will see the latest version of the venerable network operating system as it's released for public beta. And they will no...

Nasdaq moves to drop i2's stock. (Briefs).(Brief Article)
April 14, 2003... Software vendor i2 Technologies Inc. said it received a stock delisting notice from Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. The notice came a week after Nasdaq halted the trading of i2's stock following disclosures that the Dallas-based company was being...

Microsoft warns of Java code flaw. (Briefs).(Brief Article)
April 14, 2003... Microsoft Corp. warned of a security flaw in its Java virtual machine software that could be used by attackers to run malicious code on Windows systems. It gave the vulnerability a "critical" rating and urged users to install a new release of...

Vendors form new IT security group. (Briefs).(Brief Article)
April 14, 2003... Microsoft, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM and Intel Corp. said they have formed a group to develop a set of proposed security and data privacy standards. The Portland, Ore.-based Trusted Computing Group will take the...

Red Hat Inc. (Short Takes).(Brief Article)
April 14, 2003... Raleigh, N,C.-based RED HAT INC. announced open-source content management and portal server tools that support its Linux release.

Institute for Women and Technology. (Short Takes).(Brief Article)(Obituary)
April 14, 2003... ANITA BORG, who founded the Palo Alto, Calif.-based Institute for Women and Technology in 1997, died of brain cancer last week at the age of 54....

Politics bedevil Web services standards. (On the Mark).
April 14, 2003... ... process, and "it's users who suffer from the fracture," laments Dave Chappell, VP and chief technology evangelist at Sonic Software Corp., a Bedford, Mass.-based subsidiary of Progress Software Corp. He also serves on the OASIS Web Services...

Sun expands availability of Solaris security. (News).(Brief Article)
April 14, 2003... Sun Microsystems Inc. said last week that it will offer commercial customers a version of its Solaris operating system originally developed for military and government intelligence use. Sun intends to include the technology in its next version...

Microsoft supports AMD's 64-bit chips. (Briefs).(Brief Article)
April 14, 2003... Microsoft Corp. said it's developing native 64-bit versions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 that will support systems based on Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s upcoming Opteron and Athlon 64 microprocessors. The 64-bit operating system...

Siebel says Q1 was below plan...but EMC, NCR top their goals. (Briefs).(Brief Article)
April 14, 2003... Siebel Systems Inc. joined the list of software vendors warning that their first-quarter financial results will be lower than expected. San Mateo, Calif.-based Siebel said it now expects to report a profit of up to $5 million on revenue of...

Siebel says Q1 was below plan...but EMC, NCR top their goals. (Briefs).(Brief Article)
April 14, 2003... On the flip side, EMC Corp. and NCR Corp. both said their first-quarter numbers will exceed projections. Hopkinton, Mass.-based EMC said its revenue will be within the predicted range of $1.35 billion to $1.4 billion, but it noted that profits...

Electronic Data Systems Corp. (Short Takes).(Brief Article)
April 14, 2003... ELECTRONIC DATA SYSTEMS CORP. in Plano, Texas, said it won a contract to take over the management of most IT operations for the city of Anaheim, Calif. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed.

Gateway Inc. (Short Takes).(Brief Article)
April 14, 2003... GATEWAY INC. in Poway, Calif., introduced a pair of rack-mounted Windows servers based on Intel Corp.'s Xeon chips.

Intrusion prevention touted over detection: products promise proactive security defense but still need time to mature. (News).(RSA Conference 2003)
April 14, 2003... THIS WEEK'S RSA Conference 2003 in San Francisco will feature a range of security technologies meant to let corporations more proactively defend themselves against a growing array of cyberthreats. Unlike most traditional firewall and...

Supply chain vendors vying to provide more inventory visibility: upgraded apps will offer real-time insights, automated response tools. (News).
April 14, 2003... RIVAL VENDORS of supply chain management software are racing to develop tools that give users additional collaboration capabilities and real-time visibility of product inventory and demand levels. For instance, Manugistics Group Inc. later...

Crystal Decisions tightens analysis software bundle. (News).(Brief Article)
April 14, 2003... Crystal Decisions Inc. last week announced an upgraded set of its reporting and data analysis software that's more tightly integrated than earlier releases were. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company said its Crystal Enterprise 9 Premium...

Lawson adds outsourcing services -- with help: vendor relies on partners to host, manage systems. (Applications).(Brief Article)
April 14, 2003... Lawson Software Inc., which is trying to rebound from three straight quarterly losses, hopes to entice new users by working with two other companies to offer outsourcing services for its business applications. Lawson will announce the plan...

IBM's Software chief scans the competitive landscape. (Q&A).
April 14, 2003... Steve Mills, senior vice president of IBM's Software Group, spoke with Computer world last week about the software strategies of IBM and its top competitors. Excerpts from the interview follow. How do you view the future of Unix at IBM?...

Unisys pins server hopes on microsoft. (Q&A).(Brief Article)
April 14, 2003... Unisys Corp. last week introduced a midrange version of its ES7000 server [QuickLink 37562] in a bid to broaden the market for that product line, which is based on Intel Corp. processors and the Datacenter edition of Microsoft Windows. George...

Demand executive ROI. (Opinion).
April 14, 2003... AT LAST, WE ARE STARTING to see shareholders with backbone and more than a modicum of common sense. Two weeks ago, Hewlett-Packard shareholders passed a nonbinding recommendation asking the company's directors to obtain stockholder approval of...

Stop the Web conferencing cost clash. (Opinion).(Industry Overview)
April 14, 2003... WEB CONFERENCING is creating a clash that pits departmental prerogatives against corporate cost savings. The departments need to retreat. Defined as the ability to share documents, applications and even desktops, Web conferencing is a...