Computerworld articles from August 2004

Computerworld archives from August 2004

Accenture IT system under fire in Ontario: upgrade needed to calculate welfare benefit changes; inquiry sought into deal with vendor.(News)
August 2, 2004... Questions about the cost, stability and usability of a controversial $213.8 million welfare payments system being used in Ontario continue to plague IT services firm Accenture Ltd., which developed the system for the province's Ministry of...

One year later, IT prepares for next disaster.(News)
August 2, 2004... Asiff Hirji, CIO at Ameritrade Holding Corp., said his business continuity plan for the company's Jersey City, N.J., data center worked flawlessly when the lights went out in much of the Northeast last August. Well, almost flawlessly....

High-tech bunker monitors convention security 24/7: Cold War facility equipped with new IT systems to ensure delegates' safety in Boston.(News)
August 2, 2004... For the first time in 26 years, the Massachusetts State Emergency Operations Center--an underground bunker built during the height of the Cold War--last week began round-the-clock operations. The purpose was to ensure the security of the...

Microsoft releases patch for browsers.(At Deadline)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... Microsoft Corp. released an out-of-cycle software patch to fix three security holes in Internet Explorer, each given a severity rating of "critical." Microsoft, which typically issues patches monthly, urged users to install the new one as soon...

EDS sees bigger loss on Navy pact.(Electronic Data Systems Corp.)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... Electronic Data Systems Corp. increased this year's projected loss on its $8.8 billion IT modernization contract with the U.S. Navy, citing order deferrals and lower-than-expected payments. EDS also said it has agreed to end another contract...

SCO Group seeks to revive Unix name.(The SCO Group Inc)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... Lindon, Utah-based The SCO Group Inc. confirmed that it has applied for a trademark on the name "Unix System Laboratories," which would revive the name of the former AT & T Corp. unit that once owned the rights to Unix. But The Open Group...

Short takes.(At Deadline)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... IBM said it's buying Cyanea Systems Corp., an Oakland, Calif.-based vendor of performance monitoring tools for Web-based applications.... HEWLETT-PACKARD CO. today will announce a disk array that can support SCSI and Serial ATA drives behind a...

Microsoft confirms more product delays: XP SP2, 64-bit Extended Systems slated for 2005.(News)
August 2, 2004... MARSHALING resources to finish off the security-focused Service Pack 2 for Windows XP is having a trickle-down effect on other Microsoft Corp. products. The company confirmed last week that the first service pack for Windows Server 2003 is...

Microsoft scant on Longhorn specifics.(News)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... Microsoft's chief financial officer, John Connors, last week talked up the "innovative pipeline" that will ensure that new products and technology keep rolling out in the future. And "future" was the operative word at the annual financial...

NASA, Navy buy massive supercomputers: market is growing for high-powered systems, IDC says.(News)
August 2, 2004... U.S. government agencies announced purchases of two large supercomputers last week, including a massive 10,240-processor system for use by NASA that will likely be ranked among the world's most powerful computers. The NASA system, from...

Sun aims to attract HP-UX, windows users to JES: some users hail pricing model; Others not so sure.(News)
August 2, 2004... In an effort to broaden its reach as a middleware vendor, Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to make its Java Enterprise System available on Windows and Hewlett-Packard Co.'s HP-UX by the end of the year. Sun's pricing model for the integrated...

Insurer hands off apps work to CSC.(Briefs)(Computer Sciences Corp., Zurich Insurance Co.)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... Zurich Insurance Co. said it's outsourcing application development and maintenance work in the U.S., the U.K., Switzerland and Germany to Computer Sciences Corp. About 1,600 IT workers will be shifted to CSC late this year and in 2005 as part...

Nortel to announce additional cutbacks.(Nortel Networks Ltd.)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... Nortel Networks Ltd. plans to announce more cost-cutting actions later this month, along with preliminary financial results for this year's first and second quarters. Bill Owens, president and CEO of Brampton, Ontario-based Nortel, said he...

Design snafus must end, says Intel CEO.(Craig Barrett)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... In an internal memo, Intel Corp. CEO Craig Barrett wrote that the chip maker needs to do a better job of bringing products to market. The memo, dated July 21, followed a series of design problems and delays. "This is not the Intel we all know,...

Short takes.(Microsoft Launches Server)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... MICROSOFT CORP. released a second beta-test version of its delayed SQL Server 2005 database.... The European Union's second-highest court set a hearing date of Sept. 30 on Microsoft's request that antitrust remedies imposed in March by European...

Open-source boosters lack ...(On the Mark)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... ... a full IT vocabulary when chatting up CIOs. That's what Robert Lefkowitz told an audience of nearly 2,000 hackers at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (Oscon) in Portland, Ore., last week. Although Lefkowitz is vice president of...

Novell's Enterprise Server 9 draws ...(On the Mark)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... ... big crowds of hackers at Oscon. They wanted to see what will likely be the first release of an enterprise-class server software with the Linux 2.6 kernel. As yet unannounced, but widely expected to ship in the next two months, Enterprise...

Microsoft pushes middle ground ...(On the Mark)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... ... in the open-source debate. Jason Matusow, director of Microsoft Corp.'s shared-source initiative, points to two trends that he hopes will bring a happy middle ground for IT users who like the idea of open-source products but still worry...

Wyse readies Linux thin client ...(Wyse Technology Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... ... based on the hot new 2.6 kernel of the operating system. The 5150SE from Wyse Technology Inc. will ship early in Q4 and cost you a mere $399. It's the first thin client for the new Linux kernel, and it's the first using a chip set designed...

MCI ups performance pledges to retain users: guarantees faster transmissions on IP network as possible buyout bid looms.(News)
August 2, 2004... MCI INC. last week announced new performance guarantees for users of its IP network, another in a series of network services enhancements that the company is promising to its business customers. The continuing effort to boost customer...

Banks balk at info-sharing provision in privacy law: claim compliance with Calif. SB 1 will raise IT costs.(News)
August 2, 2004... Banks doing business in California are planning to appeal a recent federal court decision that lets the state enforce tough new provisions related to the sharing of customer information with affiliates. The provisions are part of...

Mobile devices move Wi-Fi, cellular closer to convergence: HP, Motorola products let users roam between networks but have limitations.(News)
August 2, 2004... WI-FI AND cellular network technology finally tied the knot last week, as Hewlett-Packard Co. and Motorola Inc. each introduced mobile devices that can roam between the two technologies. But both products have limitations. Motorola said...

Red Hat to launch Java App Server: vendor extends its reach beyond Linux.(News)
August 2, 2004... Red Hat Inc. plans to release its first Java application server at the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco today, broadening its business beyond the Linux operating system, industry sources said. Red Hat Application Server will be sold...

Dell, IBM tap Intel 64-bit for servers.(International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... It will be raining servers today if IBM and Dell Inc. follow through on expected announcements of new systems built around Intel Corp.'s X86 processors with 64-bit extensions. The rack and tower configurations that the companies plan to...

Pace of vendor audits said to be slowing: users increase self-auditing of software licenses; Vendors seek to avoid conflicts.(News)
August 2, 2004... Over the past few months, Microsoft Corp. and other software vendors have become less aggressive about threatening customers with audits to gauge whether they're complying with their license contracts, according to analysts. That's largely...

IT managers brace to meet ongoing Sarbanes-Oxley compliance demands: documentation, workflow apps are in demand.(News)
August 2, 2004... IT managers at several large companies said last week that the software they now have should help them meet the Sarbanes-Oxley Act's internal documentation requirements on an ongoing basis. But analysts think many corporate users aren't so well...

IT's new balance.(Opinion)(Information technology )
August 2, 2004... ISPENT A DAY LAST WEEK listening to a group of CIOs and IT executives trade ideas on how to solve their biggest problems with governance, regulatory compliance and outsourcing. This trio of hot topics kept the conversations cooking at an...

Executive blogging for fun and profit.(Opinion)
August 2, 2004... SOMEONE I know posted an intriguing item on his weblog the other day. It began: "It's tough to compete against a social movement. Especially one in which you're a believer." The blogger was Jonathan Schwartz, president and chief operating...

Microsoft entering a new phase.(Opinion)
August 2, 2004... GOOGLE'S initial public offering ought to quicken the pulse of even the most hardened investors. With shares expected to trade at $108 to $135, Google could raise enough money to value the company at a whopping $36 billion. Google won't...

Don't concede the desktop to Microsoft.(Readers' Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
August 2, 2004... IT'S TRUE that converting a company to open-source applications is difficult; the cost of reinstallation and retraining is hard to justify ["Open-Source Apps Losing Desktop Battle With Microsoft," QuickLink 47772]. Therefore, we can't expect...

A VAX alternative.(Readers' Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
August 2, 2004... FOR those seeking a VAX alternative other than Charon-VAX, I strongly recommend giving the open-source SIMH VAX emulator a try ["VAX Users See the Writing on the Wall," QuickLink 47934]. The SIMH VAX emulator can be compiled and run on both...

Covering the waterfront: information technology is playing a bigger role in protecting the nation's ports, but many projects have yet to fully roll out.(Technology)
August 2, 2004... SHIPPING PORTS are gateways to international and domestic trade in the U.S., but they are also tempting targets for terrorists. U.S. ports and waterways handle more than 2 billion tons of domestic and import/export cargo annually, a volume...

Ultrawideband: a better Bluetooth; Outlook: the wireless personal-area network technology is more than 100 times faster than Bluetooth, but business applications are still a long way off.(Emerging Technologies)
August 2, 2004... ULTRAWIDEBAND wireless technology has been called "Bluetooth on steroids." Like Bluetooth, its personal-area network (PAN) cousin, UWB is designed to replace cables with short-range, wireless connections, but it offers the much higher bandwidth...

Definition: form factor refers to the overall dimensions and component layout of a device--in other words, its physical size and packaging. The term covers technical specifications and/or general-purpose descriptors for different hardware components.(Quick Study)
August 2, 2004... WHEN we refer to the size of a computer or component, we might be talking about its capacity, speed or connectors. Or we could be talking about its dimensions--how much physical space it occupies on the desktop, inside the PC box, in a server...

Singing the TLS protocol blues: deploying secure e-mail using transport layer security turns out to be more problematic than it looks.(Security Manager's Journal)(Transport Layer Security)
August 2, 2004... THIS WEEK I'm dealing with secure e-mail, and in particular the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. The financial services company for which I'm consulting is setting up secure e-mail links with several customers to protect messages...

Wikipedia's TLS.(TLS Resources)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... * For an introduction to the topic, Wikipedia's TLS page is excellent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security

The Internet Mail Consortium's S/MIME and OpenPGP page.(TLS Resources)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... * The Internet Mail Consortium's S/MIME and OpenPGP page offers a very good overview of these encryption protocols. www.imc.org/smime-pgpmime.html

IETF's Network Working Group.(TLS Resources)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... * This page, created by the IETF's Network Working Group, describes the SMTP over TLS protocol. www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3207.txt

The MX Lookup Utility.(TLS Resources)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... * The MX Lookup Utility, available for download at www.webmastertoolkit.com/mx-record-lookup.shtml, is a useful tool for working with MX records.

NetForensics adds nFX tool.(Security Log)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... NetForensics Inc. has released software that's designed to allow administrators to enforce security policy compliance at network endpoints. The Edison, N.J.-based company's nFX Policy Reporting tool notifies administrators when a user or...

Tripwire update seeks approvals.(Security Log)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... Portland, Ore.-based Tripwire Inc. has shipped change management software designed to let administrators identify unintended or unauthorized changes to server file systems and configurations, and other security compromises. New features in...

Verbatim rolls out new storage media.(Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... Verbatim Corp. has introduced a new set of 5.25-in. Ultra Density Optical write-once and rewritable media. The storage devices are designed to provide reliable, long-term storage, according to the Charlotte, N.C.-based company. Verbatim's 30GB,...

New IM, e-mail management tools.(Briefs)(instant messages)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... DYS Analytics Inc. added the ability to log and archive instant messages to its Control 4.2 collaboration management application. The Wellesley, Mass.-based company said it also added broader e-mail trending-analysis tools to its E-mail Control...

IT monitoring software debuts.(Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... Adlex Inc. announced the availability of ITvisibility. The software measures IT service levels experienced by users of applications around the clock, taking note of IT infrastructure, networks and application performance, according to the...

Web tools project announced.(Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... The Eclipse Foundation in Anaheim, Calif., and the ObjectWeb consortium in Saint Ismier Cedex, France, announced the launch of the Eclipse Web Tools Platform Project. Bjorn Freeman-Benson, a research scientist at the University of Washington in...

Depend on Microsoft?(Technology)
August 2, 2004... WE ARE ALL dependent on Microsoft. One way of demonstrating that is to imagine a devious attack in which one of the company's frequent updates was rigged to destroy Microsoft software everywhere. The information economy would collapse. Millions...

Roll your own: despite the proliferation of good off-the-shelf software, some shops still prefer to build it themselves. Here's why.(Management)
August 2, 2004... AT A NATIONAL SALES MEETING, the president of Reliant Pharmaceuticals Inc. rose to ask if there were any questions. "Throw anything at me," he said to the salespeople assembled. Someone immediately asked, "When are we getting automated?" ...

Prudent pruning: cutting back your systems can keep your IT environment vital and responsive.(Management)
August 2, 2004... IT SYSTEMS GROW LIKE KUDZU. It's "almost an inevitable fact of IT," says Tony Iams, an analyst at D.H. Brown Associates Inc., a technology research firm in Port Chester, N.Y. And once built or bought, systems tend to stay around by...

Camera phones become an IT issue.(Brain Food for IT Executives)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... CAMERA PHONES have been a huge success--IDC estimates that more than 600 million will be in use by 2007--because people can easily send and receive snapshots. What does this have to do with corporate IT? Plenty, according to an article in...

Best bits.(Brain Food for IT Executives)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 2, 2004... The most useful parts of recent business and IT management books THE BOOK: Information Nation: Seven Keys to Information Management Compliance, by Randolph A. Kahn and Barclay T. Blair (AIIM, 2004). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I'm not...

Too many chiefs?(Brain Food for IT Executives)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... Chief financial officers are fine. So are chief legal officers and chief administrative officers. But some companies are going too far by adding more CXOs to the organizational chart, says David Silverstein, president and CEO of Breakthrough...

Data decay.(Brain Food for IT Executives)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... Here's why you need a data cleansing effort. On a typical morning between 9 and 11 o'clock: * 706 firms will move * 578 businesses will change their phone numbers * 60 companies will change their names * 40 businesses will...

The IT economy.(Brain Food for IT Executives)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... * IT spending is "stuck in first gear," according to a report by The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in New York. After months of steadily more optimistic reports, a June survey of 100 CIOs shows that their capital spending forecasts for 2004 have...

Ups and downs.(Brain Food for IT Executives)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... Which IT services providers are gaining or losing a share of your IT spending dollars? GAINING 1. IBM 2. Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. 3. Wipro Ltd. 4. Tata Consultancy Services LOSING 1. Accenture Ltd....

Security plans.(Brain Food for IT Executives)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... Security Plans Which types of network security products do you plan to buy in the next 12 months? Antivirus 60% Firewall 47% Monitoring 45% Intrusion detection 38% Identity management 24%...

Career watch.(Management)(Interview)
August 2, 2004... Linda Beck TITLE: Executive vice president, operations COMPANY: Earth-Link Inc., Atlanta [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHAT SHE DOES: Over the course of her 20-year career in IT, Linda Beck, who started out as a computer programmer...

St. John Joins 3Com board.(Exec Track)(Julie St. John)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... JULIE ST. JOHN has joined 3Com Corp.'s board of directors. She will also serve on the company's audit and finance committee. St. John is currently executive vice president and CIO for the Enterprise Systems and Operations division at...

CA names Kern CIO, senior VP.(chief information officer)(Kevin Kern)(Computer Associates International)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... KEVIN KERN has been named senior vice president and CIO at software maker Computer Associates International Inc. in Islandia, N.Y. Kern is responsible for CA's global IT, including systems and applications, data centers, internal help desks and...

Rainmaker taps Schork to lead IT.(information technology)(Larry W. Schork)(Rainmaker Systems Inc)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... LARRY W. SCHORK has joined Rainmaker Systems Inc. as vice president of technology. Previously, Schork was vice president and general manager of IT at Loudcloud Inc. and CIO at Metricom Inc. and Rational Software Corp. Scotts Valley,...

Vetrano to head Cosi IT operation.(information technology)(Joe Vetrano)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2004... JOE VETRANO will join Cosi Inc., a New York-based restaurant chain, as vice president for IT. He will be responsible for aligning Cosi's IT infrastructure with its growth plans for both corporate and restaurant systems. Previously, he served as...

Questions trump answers.(Management)
August 2, 2004... INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY people tend to be answer people. When users, managers, family members or even random people from the Internet have questions, we're right there with the answers, because we're always the smart people. One of the...

Dean, other dems sound off on e-voting security.(News)(Howard Dean)
August 2, 2004... FORMER Vermont governor and onetime presidential hopeful Howard Dean joined fellow Democrats at their party's national convention here last week to spotlight the need for secure voting systems that can be audited. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]...

E-mail answers.(The Back Page)
August 2, 2004... I ASKED, YOU ANSWERED. A few weeks ago, I wrote about Tom Whittington, CIO for California's Contra Costa County, where a glitch in an e-mail address book sent hundreds of messages with confidential information to a company in Sweden over a...

Thanks for all your help.(Shark Tank)
August 2, 2004... Remote server goes down hard, and overheating appears to be the cause, reports a pilot fish on the scene. So a tech is dispatched to the remote site to replace the server's fan. "On-site, the tech finds the server in the middle of a room that's...

Online data a gold mine for terrorists: IT's high-alert response overlooks corporate sites.(News)
August 9, 2004... The widespread availability of sensitive information on corporate Web sites appears to have been largely over-looked by IT and security managers who responded last week to the Department of Homeland Security's warning of a heightened terrorist...

'Breakthrough' VoIP project breaks down.(News)(voice-over-IP)
August 9, 2004... In 2001, The Dow Chemical Co. unveiled plans to create a voice-over-IP network that would also provide data and video capabilities. In a chest-thumping announcement, Dow said its converged network would be a "breakthrough solution" that would...

Corporate America slow to adopt biometric technologies; growth stalled due to cost, interoperability and reliability issues.
August 9, 2004... Biometric authentication technologies, which were expected to be widely adopted following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, are still struggling to gain broad acceptance in corporate America. Despite the much-touted benefits of technologies...

Show some initiative! How to win support for your brilliant but unsolicited it ideas.(Management)
August 9, 2004... WHEN CIO Michael H. Hugos approached his company's top business executives with an idea for building a collaborative forecasting system for customers, the executives immediately became uneasy and suspicious. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Listen! Want to build better systems? Teach your people to conduct better user interviews.(It Mentor)
August 9, 2004... ASK NEARLY ANY IT MANAGER how helpful business users are, and he will eventually say something like, "I know it's not their fault, but when I expend resources to gather predesign information from the business users, they tell us only half of...

Securing the corporation: four chief security officers discuss the steps they've taken to safeguard their organizations' IT infrastructures from internal and external threats.(Q&A)(Panel Discussion)
August 9, 2004... HACKERS. MOLES. CYBERTERRORISTS. Back doors left by software developers. These are some of the primary challenges that corporate chief security officers are facing these days. In May, Computerworld's Thomas Hoffman moderated a panel...

Career watch: easy marks and tough targets.(Q&A)(ARO Inc.,)(Interview)
August 9, 2004... VIRTUALLY EVERY Fortune 100 company boasts its share of talented executives. But the amount of effort it takes to recruit them away from their current employers can vary greatly, according to executive search firm Morgan Howard Worldwide. The...

Microsoft puts SP2 into manufacturing.(At Deadline)(Brief Article)
August 9, 2004... Microsoft Corp. released Windows XP Service Pack 2 to manufacturing on Friday, after postponing the move two days earlier to do more development work on the security-focused update. SP2's overall size is 265MB, but Microsoft said the average...

IRS to cut IT staff at processing sites.(At Deadline)(Brief Article)
August 9, 2004... The U.S. Internal Revenue Service said it plans to cut 218 of the 278 IT workers at its 10 tax processing centers by next June. The cost-cutting move will affect computer operators, IT specialists and tape library administrators in the agency's...

PeopleSoft wins $50m Mexico deal.(At Deadline)(Brief Article)
August 9, 2004... PeopleSoft Inc. said Mexico's income tax agency has awarded it a contract worth more than $50 million over two years, the largest software and services deal in the company's history. PeopleSoft will provide Mexico's Tax Administration Service...

MCI loses $71m in second quarter.(At Deadline)(Brief Article)
August 9, 2004... MCI Inc. reported a $71 million net loss for the second quarter, compared with a profit of $8 million in the year-earlier quarter. MCI, which emerged from bankruptcy protection in April, said second-quarter revenue totaled $5.2 billion. "We've...

HP user groups forge ahead with conferences; will hold their own events next year despite vendor's effort to consolidate.(News)(Hewlett-Packard Co)
August 9, 2004... THREE Hewlett-Packard Co. user groups confirmed last week that they will continue to hold independent user conferences despite HP's drive to consolidate the events into a new technology conference to be held in September 2005. The three...

Independent events outlast Comdex, CeBIT.(News)(HP World )(Brief Article)
August 9, 2004... HP WORLD organizers are expecting a 10% increase in attendance over last year at their conference next week, and some other user groups said they're seeing attendance increases at their events as well. Unlike the organizers of CeBIT America...

IT managers eye desktop Linux, but migration challenges remain: LinuxWorld attendees weigh potential cost savings vs. technology's immaturity.(News)
August 9, 2004... The idea of using Linux on corporate desktops was a laughing matter when the open-source operating system began infiltrating data centers a few years ago. But at last week's LinuxWorld Conference & Expo here, many IT staffers said their...

HP exec calls for fewer open-source licenses.(News)(Hewlett-Packard Co)
August 9, 2004... SAN FRANCISCO The large number of licenses that software vendors are using to release open-source code is becoming a significant issue for developers and IT managers, according to Hewlett-Packard Co.'s top Linux executive. "A lot of...

Microsoft CRM will need fixes for SP2.(Briefs)
August 9, 2004... Microsoft Corp. released patches to help ensure that its CRM applications will work correctly with Windows XP Service Pack 2. The patches are for Version 1.2 of the Microsoft CRM server and the Outlook client version of the vendor's sales force...

Sun builds Linux code into Solaris.(Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 9, 2004... Sun Microsystems Inc. is developing software called Janus that's designed to make it easier for users to run Linux applications on Solaris systems built around x86 processors. The new code will run inside the Solaris kernel and support...

SEC may charge Business Objects.(Briefs)(Securities and Exchange Commission)(Brief Article)
August 9, 2004... Business Objects SA said it was notified that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's staff plans to recommend a civil action against the business intelligence software vendor for allegedly violating securities laws. The SEC is...

Short takes.(Briefs)(contracts)(Brief Article)
August 9, 2004... IBM was tapped by the U.S. Army to build a clustered supercomputer that will run SUSE Linux and include more than 2,300 Opteron processors... . City officials in MUNICH have put a planned desktop Linux migration on hold due to concerns about...

Pentagon urged to fix procurement processes: GAO says Defense Department should copy corporate IT on business systems.(News)(Government Accountability Office)
August 9, 2004... THE U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a call for the Department of Defense to reform its business system procurement policies and align them with corporate project management practices. In a report that was sent to...