Computerworld articles from February 2006

Computerworld archives from February 2006

Users stick with Salesforce.com despite interruptions in service: but some seek amends for outages.
February 6, 2006... For the second time in just over a month, users of Salesforce.com Inc.'s hosted CRM system faced service interruptions, leading some to question whether the vendor is doing enough to make amends for the outages. The San Francisco-based CRM...

Banks not depositing Linux in data centers.(usage of Linux)
February 6, 2006... Linux proponents wish there were more banks like Key-Bank. The Cleveland-based institution is in the midst of a multiyear upgrade to Linux, and by 2008 it expects the open-source operating system to be running on about one in seven of its...

GM splits IT services work, pulls together rival vendors: sets short contract lengths, standards for IT processes.(General Motors Corp.)
February 6, 2006... In awarding billions of dollars worth of IT outsourcing contracts last week, General Motors Corp. did three things that may have ramifications for many other users: It officially adopted a multisourcing strategy, it set relatively short...

U.K. objects to Microsoft C++ spec.(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... U.K. representatives at the International Standards Organization have objected to Microsoft Corp.'s request to fast-track a proposed specification that would let developers directly program applications for its .Net Framework using the C++...

Mozilla release adds security updates.(Mozilla Corp.'s new version of Firefox web browser)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Mozilla Corp. has released a new version of its Firefox browser containing critical security updates and several stability fixes that address problems that can slow the performance of some systems. The eight security fixes in Version 1.5.0.1 of...

IBM courts Russian software developers.(russian language version of its technical progarms, DeveloperWorks Russia)
February 6, 2006... IBM has launched an effort to convince Russian developers to use its middleware and hardware. As part of the initiative, IBM established DeveloperWorks Russia, a Russian-language version of its technical resources program. The program helps...

SGI names CEO after $28M loss.(Silicon Graphics Inc., Dennis McKenna)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Silicon Graphics Inc. named a new chairman, CEO and president at the same time it reported a $28 million third-quarter loss. Dennis McKenna, former CEO of privately held SCP Global Technologies Inc. in Boise, Idaho, replaces Robert Bishop, who...

Parties maneuvering in BlackBerry legal dispute: filings argue merits of bid to shutter service; feds issue new patent ruling.
February 6, 2006... AMID A flurry of legal filings in the BlackBerry patent-infringement case, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) last week issued a preliminary ruling rejecting the validity of another of the wireless e-mail patents that are at the heart...

SAP launches first piece of hosted CRM service: system integrated with back-office ERP application.
February 6, 2006... SAP AG last week launched the initial piece of its first hosted CRM service, an on-demand sales force automation system. The full offering, called SAP CRM On Demand, will add hosted marketing and services applications to the sales system...

Newspapers' exposure of data points out hidden risks: credit card numbers were mistakenly printed, attached to bundles of papers.
February 6, 2006... Incidents such as the data security breach disclosed last week by The Boston Globe and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette--which inadvertently attached the credit card numbers of more than 200,000 subscribers to newspaper bundles--highlight the...

IBM upgrades iSeries servers, operating system: latest move in effort to boost midrange systems.
February 6, 2006... IBM last week upgraded the servers and operating system in its iSeries line, continuing its effort to expand the potential user base for the midrange machines. The new operating system, i5/OS Version 5, Release 4, is the first for the...

FCC proposes fining AT & T $100,000.(Federal Communications Commission)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... The Federal Communications Commission has proposed fining AT & T Inc. $100,000 for failing to file an annual report detailing its compliance with customer privacy protection regulations. The FCC charged that AT & T didn't comply with the FCC's...

Microsoft updates blogging policies.(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Microsoft Corp. has formed a new policy to deal with requests from governments that allege that posted material violates their laws. Microsoft's censoring of Chinese blogger Zhao Jing late last year prompted outrage from many of the company's...

Symantec unveils security service.(Symantec Corp.'s security software service Genesis)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Symantec Corp. plans to offer a new consumer security service similar to Microsoft's Windows OneCare Live by September. Code-named Genesis, the new service will include antivirus and antispyware capabilities taken from the Norton Internet...

Microsoft moves two groups into new unit.(Unified Communications Group)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Microsoft is merging its Exchange and real-time collaboration groups into a new unit called the Unified Communications Group. The move will align development of Microsoft's e-mail platform with that of other communications systems, like instant...

Quit playing hide-and-seek ...(Fast Search and Transfer ASA's Fast Enterprise Search Platform )(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... ... with corporate data. "Search technology is critical to overall business and should be part of an IT infrastructure, just like databases," says John Felahi, vice president of product management at Fast Search & Transfer ASA in Oslo. The...

Broadband services via power lines ...(broadband over power lines)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... ... could spark new IT initiatives. Although consumers will be the most obvious beneficiaries of the nascent market for broadband over power lines (BPL), "CIOs will get advantages, too," says Jim Dondero, vice president of marketing at Current...

Restrict your servers to running ...(SecureWave S.A. to launch Sanctuary Application Control Server software)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... ... approved apps only. Next week, SecureWave SA in Luxembourg will release its Sanctuary Application Control Server software, which limits the applications that can execute on your Windows servers to a white list of approved programs. "It...

The cell phone's ubiquity makes ...(Diversinet Corp. to update its MobiSecure service)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... ... it ideal for two-factor authentication. That's the thinking behind Diversinet Corp.'s plan to update its MobiSecure service by month's end. Wally Kowal, vice president of marketing at the Toronto-based security vendor, says large...

Use your IP networks to back up ...(Asigra Inc.'s Version 6 of Tele-vaulting software)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... ... Macintoshes, Solaris 10 systems and Oracle 10g databases. Toronto-based Asigra Inc. is supporting those technologies in Version 6 of its Tele-vaulting software, which already works with Windows, Linux and other systems. Eran Farajun,...

Vendors spread the AJAX Gospel: big-name companies contribute code for open-source development tools.(Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)
February 6, 2006... USERS WHO helped spur the growth of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) programming techniques through grass-roots efforts welcomed last week's news that several top vendors have joined forces to promote it to the open-source community. ...

Struggling Brocade plans extreme makeover.(Brocade Communications Systems Inc.)
February 6, 2006... Brocade Communications Systems Inc. plans to boost its prospects by remaking itself from a struggling supplier of hardware to one that offers an expanded mix of switches, software and services. Declining revenue and the resignations of its...

First bugs in IE beta found in minutes.(Microsoft Internet Explorer 7)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... An independent researcher needed just 15 minutes to find the first bug in the Beta 2 preview release of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer 7 browser. Californian Tom Ferris published his findings just hours after Microsoft released the beta...

Massachusetts names new CIO.(Massachusetts Information Technology Division appoints Louis Gutierrez )(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Louis Gutierrez has been selected to head the Massachusetts Information Technology Division and oversee the implementation of its controversial Open-Document format plan, which is slated to take effect in January 2007. Gutierrez, previously...

Symantec hires Oracle exec as CIO.(David Thompson)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Symantec Corp. has named David Thompson, formerly senior vice president and CIO at Oracle Corp., its new CIO, effective today. Thompson replaces Mark Egan, who will stay with Symantec for about six months to finish work on IT projects related...

Capellas joins Cisco board of directors.(Michael Capellas, Cisco Systems Inc. )(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Michael Capellas, former president and CEO of MCI Inc., has joined the board of directors at Cisco Systems Inc. Cisco did not say what role he will play on the board. Capellas left MCI last month after a multibillion-dollar acquisition of the...

Office users may need to add software fixes: Microsoft issues notices about patent ruling, says most customers unaffected.(Statistical data)
February 6, 2006... MICROSOFT CORP. last week said that only "a small percentage" of Office users will be required to install a service pack update or a software patch as a result of a patent infringement judgment against the company last June. But, analysts...

Sprint Nextel downsizes IBM outsourcing deal: some application developers will return; call center contract also being revamped.
February 6, 2006... Sprint Nextel Corp. last week said it is taking back some of the application development and support work that it outsourced to IBM in 2004 as part of what was then described as a $400 million contract over five years. The two companies...

EC leader says IT initiative isn't working.(European Commission)(Jose Manuel Durao Barroso )
February 6, 2006... EUROPEAN COMMISSION President Jose Manuel Durao Barroso last week said that the 10-year-old Lisbon Agenda plan to boost the competitiveness of European countries through increased IT innovation has so far failed to meet its goals. Barroso...

Senegal tries to cut IT costs via open-source.(open-source software)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... SENEGAL'S NATIONAL IT agency is turning to open-source software in an effort to lower the costs that the country's government has been paying for commercial products. "We are an underdeveloped country without enough funding for expensive...

Japanese memory maker pays $84M fine.(Elpida Memory Inc.)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... TOKYO-BASED Elpida Memory Inc. has agreed to plead guilty and pay an $84 million fine for participating in an "international conspiracy" to fix dynamic RAM prices, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last week. Elpida is the fourth...

Cable & Wireless PLC.(company reorganisation)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Cable & Wireless PLC last week announced plans to split its U.K. and international businesses into separate units. The London-based network services firm's reorganization plan also includes the elimination of the CEO post held by Francesco...

Accenture Ltd.(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Accenture Ltd. plans to more than double its workforce in India, China and the Philippines to about 50,000 employees over the next three years. The Hamilton, Bermuda-based IT services firm didn't say how the new hires will be distributed across...

The Bavarian Ministry of Justice.(contract with Unisys Corp. extended)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... The Bavarian Ministry of Justice in Germany has extended its IT outsourcing contract with Unisys Corp.'s German unit through the end of 2008. The value of the contract wasn't disclosed beyond a description of it as a multimillion-dollar deal....

Medical groups offered rewards for IT use.
February 6, 2006... Cisco Systems Inc., Intel Corp. and Oracle Corp. last week said they plan to offer financial rewards to medical groups in Northern California that use IT to share data and improve patient care. Rewards of up to $150,000 per year will be...

India aims to tame soaring IT wages.(National Association of Software and Service Companies president Kiran Karnik says)(Interview)
February 6, 2006... The rapid growth of Indian IT firms and strong demand for skilled workers is putting pressure on wages in India. The escalating personnel costs prompted one major software vendor, SAP AG, to start looking elsewhere for programming talent. In an...

Dell to add 5,000 call center workers in India.(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Dell Inc. plans to add about 5,000 workers to its Indian call centers over the next two years, CEO Kevin Rollins told reporters in Delhi last week. In addition, Rollins said the company will start manufacturing PCs in that country at an...

Mass sweating.(Open-Document format as a standard for saving files)
February 6, 2006... I SAW IT the moment my 14-year-old daughter and I walked out of our local Home Depot here in Massachusetts a couple of Saturdays ago. There in the parking lot was my prized, pristine Miata, with a big dent in the right rear fender. Given that...

Time to think about your legacy.(information technology services-outsourcing and job market)
February 6, 2006... "NO MORE outsourcing!" It's the recurring cry of today's IT department. Why shouldn't we outsource? We're all getting older; it's getting harder to find people to replace us. Skills such as PL/1, IMS and the like haven't been taught for...

Goodbye to Blanche DuBois.(safety of internet access)(Column)
February 6, 2006... IN TENNESSEE WILLIAMS' A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche DuBois comments, "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." The Internet has worked on the principle that you can generally trust anonymous users but can also isolate...

Open-source risks were overstated.(Letter to the editor)
February 6, 2006... THE RISKS regarding open-source software licenses described in "Law and Order on the Open-source Range" [Dec. 5] do exist, but the same risks exist with commercial software: Any developer who would use someone else's code without checking the...

Health exchange needs security.(Letter to the editor)
February 6, 2006... THE STORY on Indiana Health Information Exchange Inc. ["Indiana Health Net Breaks New Ground on E-records," Nov. 28] described a valuable initiative to integrate systems and exchange data for the benefit of the health providers, insurers and...

Calibrating toward compliance: Computerworld looks at how five companies chose tools to help in the never-ending process of regulatory compliance.
February 6, 2006... FOR MANY corporate executives, complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is a lot like cleaning out a cluttered basement--dreaded and tedious, but necessary. That's because the federal law requires business managers to continually...

Right from the start: some companies are starting to use application life-cycle management tools to address Sarbanes-Oxley compliance issues within the application development process.
February 6, 2006... WHILE MUCH of the work to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has been focused on adding controls to business processes and systems related to financial reporting, some companies are beginning to tap application life-cycle management tools to...

It struggles with climate change: climatologists tracking global warming need all the computing horsepower they can get. Here's why.(Patrick Heimbach)(Interview)
February 6, 2006... Corporate IT managers who never seem to have enough CPU power, disk space, bandwidth or funding might take comfort from U.S. climate scientists. Computerworld's Gary H. Anthes recently talked with two of them and learned that even having access...

Self-taught: machine-learning techniques have been used to create self-improving software for decades, but recent advances are bringing these tools into the mainstream.
February 6, 2006... ATTEMPTS TO create self-improving software date to the 1960s. But "machine learning," as it's often called, has remained mostly the province of academic researchers, with only a few niche applications in the commercial world, such as speech...

Implementing change is never plug-and-play: a digital rights management project illustrates to our security manager how complications can multiply.
February 6, 2006... THE PATCH management process I talked about instituting two weeks ago ["WMF Vulnerability Sparks Patch Program," Jan. 23] got off to a good start, though things have slowed down. Immediately after we pushed the patch for the Windows...

Security bookshelf.(Hacking Exposed: Cisco Networks)(Brief article)(Book review)
February 6, 2006... Hacking Exposed: Cisco Networks, by Andrew Vladimirov, Konstantin Gavrilenko and Andrei Mikhailovsky (McGraw-Hill Osborne, 2005). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In my experience, most enterprise networks have at least some Cisco gear. This...

Calif. man faces phishing charges.(Jeffrey Brett Goodin arrested for internet fraud)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Jeffrey Brett Goodin of Azusa, Calif., was arrested on federal charges after allegedly using fake e-mail accounts to trick America Online Inc. users into sending him their personal and credit card information. According to the FBI, the phishing...

Spammer must pay AOL $5.5M.(Christopher William Smith vs America Online Inc.)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... A federal judge has ordered Christopher William Smith of Prior Lake, Minn., to pay AOL more than $5.5 million in damages and legal fees for sending billions of spam messages. AOL sued Smith in 2004 under the CAN-SPAM Act. Smith, using the name...

Tips for outsourcing your assessment needs.(TECHNOLOGY)
February 6, 2006... WHEN it comes to your networks, there's no such thing as being too safe. Organizations with even a limited Internet presence can be targeted by hackers or hit with viruses, Trojan horses and other malware. Threats don't all originate from the...

Savvion launches BPM tool update.(Savvion BusinessManager 6.5)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Savvion Inc. in Santa Clara, Calif., has announced the general availability of Savvion BusinessManager 6.5. The new release of the business process management software includes a new forms designer and an Eclipse-based integrated development...

Network Physics introduces appliance.(Network Physics Inc. launches NetSensory Professional)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Network Physics Inc. in Mountain View, Calif., has unveiled the NP-2000 NetSensory Professional, an appliance for analyzing real-time network and application performance. The device, designed for midsize companies, is available now for $9,995....

Systinet announces SOA software suite.(service-oriented architecture)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Burlington, Mass.-based Systinet Corp. has announced its second-generation service-oriented architecture application suite, which is designed to provide governance and application life-cycle management for Web services. Pricing for Systinet 2,...

DataMirror releases PointBase 5.4.(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... DataMirror Corp. in Markham, Ontario, has released the latest version of its Java relational database. PointBase 5.4 adds real-time performance monitoring and enhanced SQL query support to the Embedded version. The Micro version for mobile...

Natural alignment: follow these five principles, and the IT-business divide will cease to exist.
February 6, 2006... IN THE PAST SEVERAL years, there has been a growing interest in forging greater alignment between IT departments and the larger corporations in which IT exists. Some authors have attributed this to the collapse of the dot-com bubble, which...

Surviving process without going berserk: how to find the balance between domination and anarchy.(project management)
February 6, 2006... HADRIAN'S WALL stands as a monument to the battle between process and freedom. Built by the Romans in northern Britain between 122 and 130 A.D., the 74-mile barrier marked the final frontier of the vast and powerful Roman Empire. On one side...

Evolve or fail: have you developed a decision-making style that works for you? Great! Get ready to change it.(Interview)
February 6, 2006... Did you ever wonder why that firecracker IT supervisor who got promoted to manager crashed and burned? In this month's Harvard Business Review, Kenneth R. Brousseau, Gary Hourihan, Rikard Larsson and the late Michael J. Driver explain how...

CIOs are sticking around.(chief information officers)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... CIOs have a reputation for hopping from job to job, but Forrester Research Inc. found that 30% of CIOs at large companies have been on the job for more than five years. Approximately how long have you been in the CIO position at your...

Mining a rich vein of software talent.(farmshoring)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... One of the largest examples of "farmshoring" to date is getting under way in rural southwestern Virginia. But that being coal country, maybe this is actually a case of "mineshoring." Farmshoring, the practice of sending software-related...

David Rice.
February 6, 2006... TITLE: Vice president and CIO [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] COMPANY: Siemens Medical Solutions Inc., Malvern, Pa. Rice is this month's guest Premier 100 IT Leader, answering readers' questions about management vs. leadership and software...

65%.
February 6, 2006... 65% Percentage of U.S.-based IT workers who say they usually first hear about important business matters through rumor. SOURCE: ISR SURVEY OF 6,037 U.S. IT WORKERS, DECEMBER 2005

Is your training on track?(more employees are thinking that training program was good)(Survey)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... More employees seem to be getting value from their company-paid training than not, with 60% reporting that the last training program they attended was a good or great use of their time. We just wonder why the group that most often said that the...

Detecting disaster projects.(project management)
February 6, 2006... IF YOU'VE BEEN in this industry for any length of time, you've probably been caught up in some sort of project disaster. They happen to the best of us, and they cause financial suffering for our companies and personal pain for all involved....

Outsourcing.(2006 Outsourcing World Summit )(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Feb. 20-22, Orlando Sponsor: International Association of Outsourcing Professionals Topics at the 2006 Outsourcing World Summit include strategy; market myths and reality; seeing both sides of the outsourcing coin; cooperation in...

Software Licensing and management.(Software Asset Management & Software Licensing Summit)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... Feb. 28-March 1, Miami Sponsor: International Quality and Productivity Center The Software Asset Management & Software Licensing Summit includes presentations on building the business case for software asset management, implementing an...

ISO 9000.(EVENTS)
February 6, 2006... March 6-8, Las Vegas Sponsor: American Society for Quality Topics at the 14th Annual International Conference on ISO 9000 include performing process audits, getting everyone involved in continuous quality improvement, using risk...

Financial Management.(IT Financial Management Week 2006)(Brief article)
February 6, 2006... April 3-6, Miami Sponsor: International Quality and Productivity Center Tracks during IT Financial Management Week 2006 include measuring and benchmarking; chargeback; cost allocation and shared services for IT (alternatives to cost...

Group crafts standards for evaluating outsourcers.
February 6, 2006... Six large U.S. banks, an industry group and four major accounting firms joined forces in early 2004 to create standards for assessing the security practices of outsourcing vendors that work with financial services firms. The goal was to...

Creative bungling.(Boston Globe exposes identity thieves)
February 6, 2006... THE BOSTON GLOBE managed to expose as many as 240,000 subscribers to identity theft last week--no hackers or viruses required. Here's how: The Globe shares a computer system with a sister newspaper in suburban Worcester, Mass., the Telegram &...

So you're having no problems?(managing information systems)
February 6, 2006... Consulting outfit brings in out-of-town help for a client's desktop migration. "On Monday, we go desk to desk to make sure things are running smoothly," says a pilot fish on the project. "One sociable guy from out East who's helping knows the...

CDC upgrading IT to gather data from hundreds of hospitals: project aims to help officials respond to potential pandemics, bioterrorism.(Centers for Disease Control)
February 13, 2006... The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has quietly begun working with 31 hospitals in 10 large cities to create a system that can send real-time data feeds from emergency rooms to the CDC. The program, which aims to help officials...

FBI probes hacking incident at Indiana clinic: database changes made by intruder slowed system.
February 13, 2006... A Fort Wayne, Ind.-based orthopedics clinic with more than a dozen facilities in the state has called in the FBI to investigate a hacking incident that highlights the dangers companies can face from the placement of hidden back doors in their...

Firefox finds cracking the corporate market to be a challenge: the open-source browser is making inroads at companies like Boeing and Fidelity, but most IT shops are sticking with Internet Explorer as their browser standard.
February 13, 2006... THE BOEING CO. has been discreetly providing feedback to the Mozilla Foundation for the past year or so on features that might encourage enterprise adoption of the open-source Firefox browser. At the top of the list has been a tool kit to help...

Oracle to cut 2k jobs as it absorbs Siebel.(Siebel Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
February 13, 2006... Oracle Corp. will lay off 2,000 workers as it integrates the recently acquired Siebel Systems Inc. into its organization. Oracle said that the cutbacks will occur throughout the company and that it expects to retain 90% of Siebel's support and...

Microsoft to issue two critical patches.(AT DEADLINE)(Brief Article)
February 13, 2006... Microsoft Corp. this week will release seven patches for several of its software products, including at least two critical updates for known vulnerabilities. The Patch Tuesday batch will include four updates for Windows, including one rated...

NTT finishes secure messaging system.(NTT Communications Corp.)(Brief Article)
February 13, 2006... Engineers at NTT Communications Corp. have developed a secure instant messaging system that supports logging and archiving of messages to comply with regulations and can interact with some third-party IM networks. The system, expected to ship...

Microsoft buys Web filtering package.(from Future-Soft Inc. and releases Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006)(Brief Article)
February 13, 2006... Microsoft has agreed to buy the DynaComm i:filter Web-filtering software from Future-Soft Inc. in Houston. DynaComm i:filter allows IT administrators to filter content coming through a company's network. Microsoft also released a beta of the...

Tech crowd struts its stuff ...(Panoratio Database Images Inc.'s .pdi Generator and .pdi Explorer)
February 13, 2006... ... at the Demo 2006 conference with an eye to the near future. You didn't have to wander far in the tightly packed pavilion on the grounds of the sprawling Pointe South Mountain Resort in Phoenix last week to get a glimpse of the gadgets,...

Don't deploy a wireless LAN ...(with lower hardware)(Brief Article)
February 13, 2006... ... with lowest-common-denominator technology. That's when lower-speed 802.11b devices drag down performance for end users with 802.11g hardware, says David Confalonieri, vice president of corporate marketing at Extricom Inc. in New York. The...

Database failures are so ...(apLive to protect online transactions )(Brief Article)
February 13, 2006... ... yesterday, thanks to virtualization. Alan McMillan, CEO of Toronto-based Avokia Inc., had words of hope for Demo attendees worried about Web application reliability: "True continuous availability of databases is possible by virtualizing the...

Help your help desk to help hapless ...(NetworkStreaming Inc.'s Support Appliance)(Brief Article)
February 13, 2006... ... end users. You can start by considering giving help desk staffers the Support Appliance from NetworkStreaming Inc. in Ridgeland, Miss. End users who click on a help desk button on their PCs are directed to the appliance, which asks them if...

Iomega announces CEO's resignation.(BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
February 13, 2006... Iomega Corp. CEO Werner Heid has resigned from the firm. Heid, who had headed the struggling storage company since 2001, will be replaced on an interim basis by Iomega Chairman Stephen David. The company did not disclose a reason for Heid's...

Novell to support Virtual Iron Software.(Brief Article)
February 13, 2006... Novell Inc. has agreed to provide start-up Virtual Iron Software Inc. with support for its data center virtualization and management software. The software will ship as a preconfigured kernel with the latest version of Novell's enterprise-level...