Computerworld articles from August 2006

Computerworld archives from August 2006

Proving SOA worth is a big challenge for IT: tools emerging to manage, measure benefits of the complex architecture.(Service oriented architecture )
August 7, 2006... INSIDE * IT managers are searching for tools that can measure the performance of an SOA. PAGE 6 * Integrated Web services are forcing users to adjust their testing procedures. PAGE 7 The allure of easing integration costs and...

Measuring SOA performance is a complex art: companies look to separate IT systems management from SOA management.(service-oriented architectures)
August 7, 2006... AS COMPANIES become increasingly reliant on service-oriented architectures to support mission-critical transactions, monitoring the performance of Web services--which can be more complex than traditional system monitoring--is quickly becoming...

SOA requires new testing tools, processes.(service-oriented architecture)
August 7, 2006... BEFORE THE RECENT MOVE to service-oriented architectures, application testing mostly called for ensuring that a software application performed as it was designed, could handle specific loads and could be integrated with other isolated...

Penalize purveyors of spyware, experts say: corporate PCs hit at an alarming rate.(personal computers)
August 7, 2006... With the spyware plague showing no signs of abating, some experts and IT users are calling for stiffer penalties, including jail time, for convicted spyware purveyors. At the Black Hat security conference here last week, speakers said that...

Skype slips into business: users of Skype and other consumer-focused peer-to-peer VoIP networks are bringing the tools to work. But rather than banning the technology, some companies have embraced it. Here's why.(Skype Technologies S.A.)
August 7, 2006... TWO YEARS AGO, Mark Ehr and a few co-workers began using Skype to communicate between Proxima Technology Inc.'s Denver headquarters and its offices in Sydney, Australia, and Windsor, England. "I'd spent hours talking to Sydney," says Ehr,...

E-voting security under fire in San Diego lawsuit: machine practices, reliability in doubt.(NEWS)
August 7, 2006... INSIDE A federal lawsuit has been filed against an undisclosed e-voting vendor. Page 14 A lawsuit has arisen over alleged breaches in security procedures around electronic voting machines in San Diego County following a hotly...

Whistle-blower lawsuit alleges e-voting fraud.(NEWS)
August 7, 2006... A FEDERAL WHISTLE-BLOWER lawsuit has been filed that claims one e-voting company knowingly sold electronic voting devices that did not perform as promised. But details about the suit are sketchy because of secrecy rules surrounding...

Sun cuts expected to approach 5,000.(Sun Microsystems Inc.)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Sun Microsystems Inc. late last week laid off an undisclosed number of workers worldwide as part of a belt-tightening that's eventually expected to claim up to 5,000 jobs at the beleaguered company. Sun said the layoffs affected staffers at all...

Microsoft to issue 12 patches this week.(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Microsoft Corp. will release 12 security patches on Tuesday to fix holes in both its Windows operating system and its Office productivity suite. Ten of the patches will affect Windows, and at least one of those is rated as critical. One of the...

AOL to cut 5,000 jobs worldwide.(restructuring)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... AOL LLC will slash up to 5,000 jobs worldwide, or just over a quarter of its workforce, during the next six months as part of a restructuring aimed at bringing in more revenue. A source said job cuts are expected to be deep in Europe, since AOL...

Senate votes to back cybercrime treaty.(AT DEADLINE)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... The U.S. Senate has ratified a long-neglected cybercrime treaty that supporters say would allow greater international cooperation in cybercrime investigations. The Senate late last week voted to ratify the Council of Europe's Convention on...

Don't just search for information ...(Answers Corp.)
August 7, 2006... ... Get answers. Ever encounter a term or phrase in a document that perplexes you? Join the club. If you happen to have a cool, free applet from Jerusalem-based Answers Corp. running on your PC or Mac, you simply highlight the text and...

McAfee patches flaw in SecurityCenter.(BRIEFS)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... McAfee Inc. last week issued a patch for a vulnerability found in its SecurityCenter security software management tool. The vulnerability could allow an unauthorized user to run code on a remote machine. It affects SecurityCenter Versions 4.3...

CA files '06 annual report with the SEC.(Securities and Exchange Commission)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... CA Inc. filed its final fiscal 2006 annual report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, moving a step closer to putting some of its financial troubles behind it. The filing concludes an internal investigation into the granting of...

Sun CIO named to post in Federal unit.(Sun Microsystems Federal Inc. appointed Bill Vass )(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Sun Microsystems Inc. CIO Bill Vass has been named president and chief operating officer of Sun Microsystems Federal Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary that focuses on government business. Vass replaces John Marselle, who is retiring, and will...

IBM unveils more AMD-based servers.(International Business Machines Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... IBM has added two blades and three rack servers to its BladeCenter family of computers powered by processors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. The new servers will use AMD's Rev. F Opteron processor, which IBM officials contend will give IBM...

U.S. to issue RFID-enabled passports: August deadline to be met despite concerns of some security experts.(radio frequency identification chips )
August 7, 2006... THE STATE Department is on track to start issuing passports containing radio frequency identification (RFID) chips this week, despite warnings from some security experts that such systems could be accessed or tracked by hackers. The new...

GTSI fixes troubled $10M supply chain system: spends $1M on improvements for PeopleSoft rollout.
August 7, 2006... GTSI Corp. says it has stabilized a troubled rollout of PeopleSoft applications after spending $1 million to fix problems that caused disruptions to its customer service operations. The Chantilly, Va.-based supplier of systems to government...

Microsoft sues Belkin over patents.(BRIEFS)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Microsoft Corp. filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission against Belkin Corp. for importing products that Microsoft claims infringe on a patent it holds for peripheral device technology. The complaint contends that several...

Ericsson files new Samsung lawsuit.(Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Samsung Electronics Company Ltd)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... LM Ericsson Telephone Co. filed a new lawsuit against Samsung Electronics Co. in a court in Texas. The suit charges Samsung with infringing on Ericsson mobile phone patents; it's related to a lawsuit that Ericsson filed against Samsung in...

IBM to buy MRO Software for $740M.(International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... IBM has agreed to purchase MRO Software Inc., a maker of asset and service management software, for about $740 million. IBM intends to incorporate the MRO products into its Tivoli software line. The company also plans to have MRO's software and...

CA names Gopal to head business unit.(Ajei Gopal hired )(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... CA Inc. has hired former Symantec Corp. Chief Technology Officer Ajei Gopal to lead its enterprise systems management business unit as senior vice president and general manager. Gopal's appointment brings to a close CA's recent round of...

Mercury customers welcome acquisition by HP, CEO says.(Tony Zingale of Mercury Interactive Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Interview)
August 7, 2006... Tony Zingale arrived at Mercury Interactive Corp. in 2004 and took over as CEO after his predecessor and two other top executives were dismissed amid allegations related to stock-options irregularities. Even as Mercury continues to cooperate...

Microsoft buys health care software.(Azyxxi software)
August 7, 2006... In a move that dramatically steps up its focus on health care IT, Microsoft Corp. in late July agreed to acquire software that can integrate data from hundreds of sources and make it available to doctors electronically. Microsoft said it...

Open-source router takes on Cisco.(NEWS)
August 7, 2006... Open-source software for networking is still rare, but analysts and users say that could be changing. Start-up Vyatta Inc. last month released free software that provides basic router functions while running on a commodity PC. San Mateo,...

BT drops subcontractor for U.K. health project.(BT Group PLC, GE Healthcare, National Health Service)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... LONDON LOOKING TO SPEED the delivery of software, BT Group PLC last week dumped one of the main subcontractors working on a 10-year project to upgrade the U.K. national health system. A BT spokesman said the company is transferring...

Microsoft moves to avoid more EC fines.(European Commission)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... BRUSSELS MICROSOFT CORP. has filed another batch of technical information with the European Commission in an effort to avoid further fines for violating a 2004 antitrust ruling. On July 12, the commission fined Microsoft [euro]280.5...

Indian outsourcing not slowed by rise in wages.(GLOBALDISPATCHES)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... BANGALORE, INDIA INDIA WILL CONTINUE to be an attractive offshore outsourcing location for IT services in the coming years, despite 12% to 15% annual increases in technical staff salaries, said analysts. The cost advantage of hiring...

Philippine telco extends fiber-optic network.(Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co.)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... BAGUIO CITY, PHILIPPINES PHILIPPINE LONG Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) late last month launched a 10Gbit/sec. fiberoptic link to Baguio City as part of a $300 million (U.S.) nationwide network rollout that seeks to address emerging...

Nokia tests Wi-Fi, cellular phones.(GLOBALDISPATCHES)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... ESPOO, FINLAND NOKIA CORP. has begun testing technology that lets users make calls on both cellular and wireless networks and switch between networks without interruption. Around 50 people in Oulu, Finland, are testing the new service,...

SAP AG.(foreign investments)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... SAP AG plans to invest $1 billion (U.S.) in India over the next five years, CEO Henning Kagermann told reporters in Delhi last week. Kagermann also disclosed that by the end of 2006, 20% of the software maker's research and development budget...

SanDisk Corp.(M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd. acquired)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... SanDisk Corp. in Milpitas, Calif., has agreed to acquire competing flash memory developer M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd. in Kfar Saba, Israel, for $1.6 billion (U.S.) in stock. SanDisk officials said the deal should help the company quickly...

Via Technologies Inc.(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Two top executives and an engineer from Taipei-based Via Technologies Inc. were found innocent of industrial espionage by a panel of Taiwanese judges. The case stemmed from a 2003 civil lawsuit filed by D-Link Corp. in Hsinchu over an alleged...

Wells Fargo & Co.(setting up a software development facility in Hyderabad, India)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Wells Fargo & Co. in San Francisco last week said that it is setting up a software development facility in Hyderabad, India, citing a growing need for technology talent that can't be met solely in the U.S. It will open in the fourth quarter and...

Cognos Inc.(opened virtual innovation center in Australia and New Zealand)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Cognos Inc. in Ottawa has opened a virtual innovation center for customers in Australia and New Zealand. It will employ one full-time worker and provide a forum for large customers to access industry peers, analysts and "performance...

Microsoft to roll out auto dealer apps.(Infonizer ApS)
August 7, 2006... Microsoft Corp. and a partner are building an automobile dealer management system as the vendor looks to take advantage of a growing business. The system is being developed for Microsoft by Infonizer ApS, a Copenhagen-based provider of IT...

EMC updates SAN Advisor software.(SAN Advisor Version 5.3)
August 7, 2006... EMC Corp. last week brought out a new version of its SAN Advisor product aimed at helping users improve storage-area network (SAN) design. Version 5.3 of the SAN Advisor validation and design tool adds support for enhanced SAN validation...

The stigma debate.(Editorial)
August 7, 2006... IN MY EDITORIAL LAST WEEK, I took issue with a Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor's contention that the IT profession's reputation for being filled with "socially inept introverts" is "well-deserved." I argued that...

Brand recognition.(Cartoon)
August 7, 2006... BRAND RECOGNITION: the DARK SIDE YOU REALLY IRON MOUNTAIN'D THAT PUTT, DAVE. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Agility lessons learned.(information technology professionals)(Column)
August 7, 2006... AS I HAVE practiced agility and thought about what it means to the IT professional, I have come to a couple of basic insights. The first is that agility is a way of looking at the world and approaching situations that arise. The agile approach...

Is putting chips in children desirable?(READERS' LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
August 7, 2006... THE FLAW in Don Tennant's reasoning about implanting RFID chips in our children, presumably to keep them safe, is that the Wisconsin law he discussed does not prevent a parent from implanting a chip in a child ["Thinking the Unthinkable,"...

Is putting chips in children desirable?
August 7, 2006... AS A father of two teenage girls, I am with Tennant on his concerns, but I am still unnerved by the prospect of anything that comes close to electronically tagging the average, law-abiding citizen. What I fully support, however, is the...

Is putting chips in children desirable?(READERS' LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
August 7, 2006... I AM NOT a parent, but if I were, I would definitely "chip" my child. Two years ago, a microchip was the means by which my dog was returned (I know--not the same as a child, but as close as I get just now). My husband is a sheriff's...

Is putting chips in children desirable?(Letter to the editor)
August 7, 2006... FOR EVERY action, there is a reaction. Tennant's article focuses on the positive desired reaction. Life often has a different effect, it being complicated and involving the (irrational) decisions of others. Would a creep be willing to cut...

What a lovely Vista.(READERS' LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
August 7, 2006... THIS SOUNDS like the same article you did when XP came out ["Visual Tour: 20 Things You Won't Like About Windows Vista," Computerworld.com, June 1]. It boils down to, "Wah, things are different. I'm too stupid to find things. I want better,...

What a lovely Vista.(READERS' LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
August 7, 2006... I AM GROWING very tired of Computerworld bashing Microsoft every chance it gets. Consider how much day-to-day business and personal life is conducted on Microsoft products, and how easy to use and inexpensive those products are. There...

What a lovely Vista.(READERS' LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
August 7, 2006... I'VE BEEN running Vista Beta 2 for some time now, and I believe that this article smacked the nail on the head with a jackhammer. Everything I hate about Vista was covered. COMPUTERWORLD welcomes comments from its readers. Letters will...

What a lovely Vista.(READERS' LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
August 7, 2006... ONE REASON why Vista will not be my next operating system: I'm a happy GNU/Linux user ["Visual Tour: 20 Reasons Why Windows Vista Will Be Your Next OS," Computerworld.com, June 27]. COMPUTERWORLD welcomes comments from its readers. Letters...

Privacy predicament: as threats multiply, companies know that they must keep their customers' private information safe to stay in business and out of trouble with the law. Here's how they're doing it.(Philadelphia Stock Exchange Inc.)
August 7, 2006... THE PHILADELPHIA Stock Exchange flows 300 million stock quotes per day over an electronic trading system at rates that climb as high as 20,000 quotes per second during peak periods. The systems also churns out extremely sensitive trading...

The digital world is the real world: so says Ike Nassi, who also talks about transparent programming languages and event-aware computing.(SAP Labs Inc.)(Interview)
August 7, 2006... Ike Nassi is something of a renaissance man in IT, having held senior technical positions at SAP AG, Cisco Systems Inc., Apple Computer Inc., Digital Equipment Corp. and several other companies. He's now the senior vice president for research...

Alleged IP theft opens door to better security: a former employee may have taken valuable intellectual property, but there are no logs to show his activities.(SECURITY MANAGER'S JOURNAL)
August 7, 2006... LAST WEEK, I was called into a meeting with our company's legal counsel and several U.S. attorneys. The topic was the alleged theft of intellectual property by a former employee. An investigation was under way, and they needed information from...

Insurer's claimant data sold on net.(Sentry Insurance)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Sentry Insurance acknowledged that personal information of 72 workers' compensation claimants was stolen and sold on the Internet. Data belonging to more than 112,000 other claimants was also stolen, but the Stevens Point, Wis.-based insurer...

CIS employees' data exposed.(Citizenship and Immigration Services)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... A U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services employee inadvertently posted to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's intranet the personal information of 8,700 CIS employees. The data, including Social Security numbers and levels of pay, was...

GeoTrust rolls out credentialing suite.(TC Enterprise ID Suite Version 2007)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... GeoTrust Inc. in Needham, Mass., announced the availability of TC Enterprise ID Suite Version 2007. The company said the digital credentialing tools simplify public-key infrastructure rollouts by letting administrators automatically apply for,...

Supercomputing app to be on HP servers.(Hewlett-Packard Co., Interactive Supercomputing Inc.)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Interactive Supercomputing Inc.'s Star-P interactive supercomputing software will be available this month on Hewlett-Packard Co. ProLiant and BladeSystem servers. The software will also be available for HP Cluster Platform systems using...

Real launches multiuser database.(Real SQL Server)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Real Software Inc. has released Real SQL Server, a multiuser, cross-platform database server. The product is designed to work with RealBasic and provide consistent results when migrating from RealBasic's built-in database to Real SQL Server,...

PanGo unveils asset-tracking tool.(PanOS Platform 4.0 and PanGo Locator 4.0 software)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... PanGo Networks Inc. has announced PanOS Platform 4.0 and PanGo Locator 4.0 software for tracking the locations of system assets, including radio frequency identification tags and Wi-Fi components. The new version provides streamlined...

Can IT save big pharma?(information technology)
August 7, 2006... IN THE 1980s, when the pharmaceutical industry's currently flagging blockbuster business model was forged, a series of now-familiar breakthrough medications began to emerge that would confer the broadest medical benefits and amass the largest...

The elusive summer getaway: many CIOs are tethered to the office, even during vacation.(chief information officers)
August 7, 2006... Bernie Schumacher remembers the days before cell phones, laptops and handhelds enabled regular contact with the office even while vacationing. In fact, he was on a cruise during the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant meltdown in 1979,...

In touch: how much is too much?(chief information officers)
August 7, 2006... Bernie Schumacher might vacation in Africa this year. He'll take his BlackBerry, but he knows it might not work, and he shrugs it off. "I don't plan vacations based on access," he says. But in this era of constant connectivity, is it really...

Earning trust as the new guy: 10 steps to clinching your most crucial leadership challenge.(project manager)
August 7, 2006... WHETHER you are starting a new job, taking on a new assignment or transferring to a different project, building trust is vital. This became clear to me recently when I became the project manager on a supply and demand application...

Striking a balance: relationship managers keep IT and business focused on the big picture.(Ray Posch of Cendant Technology Operations)(Interview)
August 7, 2006... What is the most important contribution you make, and how do you make it? I facilitate the relationship between Cendant Technology Operations--the part of the corporate IT organization that operates the data center and networks--and the travel...

Is your future in India?(Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. and Infosys Technologies Ltd.)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. and Infosys Technologies Ltd., two large Indian technology firms, are increasingly scouring the world for employees. Some of Tata's and Infosys' U.S. hires work in the U.S. and other Western countries, but many...

50+ workers loom large in retention policies.(Career Watch)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... RETAINING OLDER WORKERS will be a key challenge for companies in coming years, says John Venator, president and CEO of the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA). In a column posted on Computerworld.com last month ("'Perfect Storm'...

Ask a Premier 100 IT Leader.(Marc West, H&R Block Inc.)(Interview)
August 7, 2006... Marc West TITLE: Senior vice president and CIO COMPANY: H&R Block Inc., Kansas City, Mo. West is this month's guest Premier 100 IT Leader, answering readers' questions about innovation, skills in the 21st century, getting started...

The numbers.(telecommuting)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... 59% of U.S. employees think that telecommuting at least part of the time is the ideal work situation. That includes 21% who said they would just as soon work at home all the time. But despite that strong show of support for telework, 83% said...

Gash named CIO at St. Luke's Health.(Deborah Gash appointed at Saint Luke's Health System Inc. )(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... DEBORAH GASH has assumed the position of CIO at Saint Luke's Health System Inc. in Kansas City, Mo. She succeeds John Wade, who retired after 13 years at the company. Previously, Gash held the position of corporate director of application...

New Orleans CTO Greg Meffert resigns.(chief technology officer)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... GREG MEFFERT, the first chief technology officer of the city of New Orleans and one of the leaders in Mayor Ray Nagin's post-Katrina rebuilding team, has resigned. Nagin has appointed Mark Kurt to fill the post.

Sams steps down as Ohio University CIO.(William F. Sams resigned)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Ohio University CIO WILLIAM F. SAMS has announced his resignation during a shakeup prompted by the theft of electronic files containing personal data on tens of thousands of students, alumni, donors and subcontractors. Sams, who has been CIO...

St. John to resign as Fannie Mae CIO.(Julie G. St. John quits Federal National Mortgage Association)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Mortgage giant Fannie Mae has announced that JULIE G. ST. JOHN is resigning as CIO and will leave the Washington-based company by Dec. 31. St. John has worked at Fannie Mae for 16 years. Her separation package is conditioned on Fannie Mae's...

Lesswing new CTO at Realtors group.(Mark Lesswing appointed at National Association of Realtors)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... MARK LESSWING has been named chief technology officer and senior vice president of the National Association of Realtors in Chicago. He has been vice president and director of the NAR's Center for Realtor Technology for the past five years....

The alamo dilemma.(MANAGEMENT)
August 7, 2006... SOMETIMES WORK IS A JOY. Sometimes we get to work with people we love. Sometimes projects are engaging, exciting and meaningful. Progress seems effortless. Sometimes we even wonder how we got so lucky as to get paid to do something this fun....

Users still wary of Vista security: Microsoft uses Black Hat forum to make case that new OS will be secure.(Windows Vista)
August 7, 2006... Microsoft Corp. stepped into the lion's den last week when it sent some top engineers to the Black Hat USA hacker conference here. Their mission: to convince the toughest security audience in the world that Microsoft's upcoming Windows...

Courting hackers.(Federal Bureau of Investigation)
August 7, 2006... AT THE Black Hat USA security conference last week, the FBI offered a truce to hackers. Actually, it was more than that. Daniel Larkin, who heads up the FBI's Internet crime unit, came right out and asked for help from a group of people that...

Death and the pilot fish.(SHARK TANK)
August 7, 2006... Five minutes after the help desk tells an executive to "reboot the system, and the problems will go away," the network suddenly goes down. Pilot fish rushes to the computer room and learns the truth: "She walked down three floors, persuaded the...

Philly officials try to revive billing system: city, Oracle negotiate over future of apps rollout after delays, cost overruns.(Philadelphia)
August 14, 2006... After three years and a higher-than-expected investment of $18 million, the city of Philadelphia has yet to deploy a new billing system for its half-million water customers and is now working with lead vendor Oracle Corp. to try to revive the...

Gen 2 tags boost RFID, but uncertainties linger: early users cite accuracy and price gains; maturity and value still at issue.
August 14, 2006... Proponents of radio frequency identification technology have a lot riding on the success of a new generation of systems now being deployed. Although their initial findings look promising in terms of accuracy, cost and compatibility, questions...

DOT reports theft of laptop in Florida.(Department of Transportation)(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... The inspector general's office at the U.S. Department of Transportation disclosed that a laptop PC containing the names, addresses, birth dates and Social Security numbers of 133,000 Florida residents was stolen from a car in Doral, Fla., on...

Mass. IT unit forced to halt some projects.(information technology)(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... Massachusetts CIO Louis Gutierrez said Friday that the state's IT division had laid off 27 contract employees as part of a shutdown of work on bond-dependent IT projects. The state legislature ended its session for the year on July 31 without...

DOJ seeks info on unifying storage.(Department of Justice)(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... The U.S. Department of Justice is considering a massive consolidation of its storage systems that would link devices at more than 2,000 offices and multiple data centers into an enterprise storage architecture. According to a document obtained...

Cisco buys control of data center firm.(Cisco Systems Inc., Nuova Systems Inc.)(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... Cisco Systems Inc. said it has invested $50 million in Nuova Systems Inc., a start-up in Santa Clara, Calif., that's developing unspecified data center products. The deal gives Cisco an 80% stake in Nuova, which will become a majority-owned...

Sybase joins data integration tussle: new offering to compete with IBM, Informatica.(Sybase Data Integration Suite)
August 14, 2006... SYBASE INC. is gathering its various data integration products into a software suite and touting the bundle for use with its own databases as well as ones from rival vendors. The Dublin, Calif.-based company last week officially announced...

Microsoft, DHS urge fast action on flaw.(Department of Homeland Security)(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... Microsoft Corp. issued 12 security updates for Windows and Office products, nine of them rated as critical. But the company said users should give priority to a fix for the Server Service technology in Windows because attackers have already...

3Com CEO resigns after seven months.(Scott Murray left )(Brief article)
August 14, 2006... Scott Murray has resigned as president and CEO of 3Com Corp. after just seven months on the job. The Marlboro, Mass.-based networking equipment vendor said Murray decided that he was spending too much time in China managing 3Com's joint venture...