Computerworld articles from July 2005

Computerworld archives from July 2005

Wachovia turns to outsourcing to cut costs: bank looks to trim spending on application support by 15% to 20%.(NEWS)
July 4, 2005... Wachovia Corp. is planning to outsource support for dozens of back-office applications to three global IT services vendors in a move that's expected to help the nation's fourth-largest bank reduce its application support costs by up to 20%. ...

Broadband decision pleases vendors, irks some IT pros: Supreme Court says cable operators don't have to share lines.(NEWS)
July 4, 2005... The Supreme Court's ruling on broadband Internet access policies last week won praise from network operators. But it was condemned by consumer groups as well as some businesses that use broadband connections for remote and home office...

Antitrust case could be hard sell for AMD: Intel suit has potential to lower PC costs, but proof may be elusive.(NEWS)
July 4, 2005... IT managers can hope that Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s antitrust lawsuit against Intel Corp. leads to lower PC prices. But the only thing they likely can count on is a long wait before the case reaches any kind of conclusion. Looking to...

Microsoft, IBM settle antitrust suit.(International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2005... Microsoft Corp. will pay IBM $775 million and give it another $75 million in credit under an antitrust settlement reached by the two companies. The settlement resolves claims arising from the U.S. government's antitrust case against Microsoft,...

Prosecutors revise Kumar indictment.(Sanjay Kumar for accounting fraud)(Computer Associates International Inc)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2005... Prosecutors have filed a superseding indictment that includes more details about former CEO Sanjay Kumar's alleged participation in the "35-day month" accounting fraud at Computer Associates International Inc. A number of former CA officials,...

Sun agrees to buy SeeBeyond.(Sun Microsystems Inc., SeeBeyond Technology Corp.)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2005... Sun Microsystems Inc. has agreed to buy SeeBeyond Technology Corp. for $387 million in cash in an effort to boost its business integration software business. Sun also disclosed that it is likely to buy additional integration software vendors....

Information sharing key to U.S. security: top gov't officials say IT can drive improvements.(fourth annual Government Symposium on Information Sharing and Homeland Security)(Donna Bucella and Daniel Ostergaard)
July 4, 2005... THE U.S. GOVERNMENT is getting better at sharing information among the various agencies that are responsible for protecting the nation against terrorism, but IT can help drive more improvements, top-ranking antiterrorism officials said last...

IBM adds autonomic tools to speed up error detection: automating analysis of system logs reduces IT troubleshooting, users say.(NEWS)(autonomic computing technology that can determine reasons for a system's failure)
July 4, 2005... IBM last week released autonomic computing technology that's designed to automate the process of searching through error logs to determine why a system has failed. Two users who are testing the multivendor offering said the promised...

Vendors team up on systems management road map: HP, IBM, CA see simplified process built around Web services, new tools.(NEWS)
July 4, 2005... At a grid computing conference in Chicago last week, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM and Computer Associates International Inc. presented a jointly written road map for delivering IT resource management features based on Web services. The road...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
July 4, 2005... IN LAST WEEK'S special report on the 100 Best Places to Work in IT for 2005, the listing of the winners incorrectly referred to Jacksonville, Fla.-based Nemours as a chemical company. Nemours, which was No. 98 on the list, operates a pediatric...

Cisco buys security software maker.(Cisco Systems Inc., NetSift Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2005... Cisco Systems Inc. has agreed to pay $30 million for start-up NetSift Inc., a maker of deep packet processing technology that's designed to detect network attacks as they happen. Founded in June 2004, NetSift employs 15 people. Cisco will fold...

CA to add acquired firewall to eTrust.(Computer Associates International Inc., Tiny Software Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2005... Computer Associates International Inc. said it has acquired Tiny Software Inc. and will add Tiny's firewall software to its eTrust security portfolio. Tiny's staff of fewer than 20 people has joined CA. The company plans to use Tiny's firewall...

Oracle Q4 revenue grows by 26%.(BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2005... Oracle Corp. reported a big jump in revenue for its fourth quarter that was driven by its merger with PeopleSoft and strong sales in all product categories. Oracle would not break out specific results from the PeopleSoft business. ORACLE...

Hacker breaches UConn server.(BRIEFS)(University of Connecticut)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2005... The University of Connecticut said a server with personal data on 72,000 students, faculty and staff was breached last month. The server contained personal information, including names, Social Security numbers and campus addresses. The breach...

Tech alone can't stop security breaches, says ChoicePoint CISO: responding to criticism in wake of Feb. incident, Baich says issue transcends IT.(Rich Baich)(chief information security officer)(Interview)
July 4, 2005... A massive data compromise at ChoicePoint Inc. earlier this year has made the Alpharetta, Ga.-based data aggregator a target for those calling for tougher data-protection laws [QuickLink 52719]. In an interview with Computerworld, Rich Baich,...

New credit card security rule takes effect: some merchants are concerned about compliance.(Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards)
July 4, 2005... A data security standard for all merchants handling credit card data went into effect last week amid concerns over potential implementation and compliance validation snags. Analysts said many of the banks and merchants that must adhere to...

Salesforce.com CRM rollout at Cisco said to slow; Research firm: project is 9 months behind schedule.(NEWS)
July 4, 2005... What once looked to be a marquee deployment of hosted CRM software at Cisco Systems Inc. is now the subject of a damning report from an equities research firm that says the project has stalled. In a note published on June 22, analysts from...

U.K. tax agency mulls lawsuit against EDS.(NEWS)
July 4, 2005... A U.K. government agency has threatened Electronic Data Systems Corp. with legal action to recoup some of the monies lost as a result of a troubled tax credit management software system. Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) department is...

SAP extends Oracle migration plan.(SAP AG)(Safe Passage migration program)(mySAP Customer relationship management software)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2005... In a move to attract more customers from Oracle Corp., SAP AG is extending its Safe Passage migration program to include small and midsize enterprises worldwide. SAP and its mySAP All-in-One channel partners will provide companies running...

Corel names former IBM executive CEO.(BRIEFS)
July 4, 2005... Corel Corp. has named former IBM executive David Dobson its CEO. He replaces Amish Mehta, who takes over as chairman. Mehta became interim CEO in August 2003, when Corel was acquired by Vector Capital Corp. Dobson held several posts in his 20...

Judge lets SCO lawsuit proceed.(BRIEFS)
July 4, 2005... The SCO Group Inc.'s slander lawsuit against Novell Inc. is now set to enter the discovery phase after the judge in the bitter battle denied a second Novell motion to dismiss the case. SCO filed the suit in January 2004, arguing that it owns...

Accenture wins Army contract.(BRIEFS)
July 4, 2005... The U.S. Army has awarded Accenture Ltd. a 10-year, $537 million contract to build and support new financial systems that will allow the Army to better track its income and spending. The Army's Program Executive Office for Enterprise...

Harried IT execs are being hounded by ...(Perseus Development Corp)(SurveySolutions/EFM 1.4)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2005... ... pollsters who desperately want to pick their brains. "After doctors, IT guys are the most surveyed guys in the country," observes Jeff Henning, chief operating officer at Perseus Development Corp. in Brain-tree, Mass. Your popularity among...

Dump road warriors' docking stations ...(Addlogix Inc)(UniXpress device)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2005... ... and replace them with USB port replicators. Matthew Chang, marketing manager at Addlogix Inc. in Irvine, Calif., boasts that his company's UniXpress device needs only a single USB connection to a laptop PC to handle signals from your...

Free is good, especially if ...(Nsite Inc)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2005... ... it's for something useful. And Rosie Hausler, vice president of marketing at Nsite Inc. in Pleasanton, Calif., believes you'll think her company's offer of free access for 100 users to its Nsite Starter Edition is very practical, indeed....

Sharpen security on the edge of ...(Trust Digital Inc)(Trust Enterprise Secure 5.0)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2005... ... the corporate network by "encapsulating" all corporate data on mobile devices. That's the theory behind Trust Enterprise Secure (TES) 5.0, which is due to ship late this month from McLean, Va.-based Trust Digital Inc. CEO Nick Magliato says...

Computer porn problem persists ...(Content-Watch Inc)(ContentProtect 2.0)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2005... ... inside the Fortune 500. According to a survey conducted in May by Atlanta-based Delta Consulting, half of the 50 executives who were polled said their companies have had incidents in which employees were disciplined for maintaining...

Microsoft taps Japan for software research.(An International IT News Digest)
July 4, 2005... MICROSOFT CORP. is teaming with six elite Japanese universities in a bid to expand its software research, Bill Gates, the company's chairman and chief software architect, said at a news conference here last week. The Microsoft Institute...

Trial of Sasser suspect begins this week.(An International IT News Digest)(Sven Jaschan)(Sasser worm which crashed computers)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2005... THE TRIAL OF 19-year-old Sven Jaschan, accused of creating and releasing the Sasser worm responsible for crashing hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide in May 2004, begins this week in Verden, Germany. The student from Waffensen,...

India distributes free software to citizenry.(An International IT News Digest)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2005... THE GOVERNMENT of India plans to provide CDs of free desktop software in 22 local languages to all of its citizens in hopes of broadening computer use in the country, especially in rural areas. India's Centre for Development of Advanced...

The U.K. Office for National Statistics.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2005... The U.K. Office for National Statistics has incorporated data visualization software from Corda Technologies Inc. in its new Neighbourhood Statistics Web site, the Lindon, Utah-based vendor announced last week. Corda's PopChart software lets...

Yamagata Bank Ltd.(uses predective analytics software.)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2005... Yamagata Bank Ltd., a regional bank based in Tokyo, has selected predictive analytics software from SPSS Inc. to improve its housing credit operations. Chicago-based SPSS said last week that the bank plans to develop a credit scoring system for...

Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD).(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2005... Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD), the largest mining company in South America, has awarded Quadrem International Ltd. a five-year contract for e-procurement services, the Plano, Texas-based vendor said last week. CVRD, based in Rio de Janeiro,...

Alleged data theft in India puts spotlight on security.(NEWS)
July 4, 2005... Recent data compromises involving outsourcing vendors in India are focusing renewed attention on offshore security and privacy safeguards. But so far, at least, they haven't resulted in any calls for additional controls from U.S. clients,...

Inaction on offshoring will hurt U.S. IT, author says: Hira claims that job shifts threaten ability to innovate.(Q & A)(Interview)
July 4, 2005... U.S. political and business leaders are in a state of denial over the impact of offshore outsourcing, brothers and co-authors Ron and Anil Hira argue in their new book, Outsourcing America (Amacom, 2005). Ron Hira, an assistant professor of...

AMD: all my disgust.(Intel Corp)(Advanced Micro Devices Inc)(Column)
July 4, 2005... IT WAS ONLY a matter of time before Advanced Micro Devices filed an antitrust lawsuit against Intel, alleging that its nemesis for years has engaged in anticompetitive practices that bullied hardware vendors into shunning AMD's processors. As...

Lying low, and thinking big picture.(Chief Information Officers)(Column)
July 4, 2005... CIOs ENGAGED in the long march toward the technology-enabled enterprise--a journey that can take more than a decade--try to balance their desire for dependency on technology against the credibility of the IT organization. Paradoxically, though,...

In the minds of next-gen IT leaders.(skills should be possessed by Information Technology professionals )(Column)
July 4, 2005... I RECENTLY ATTEMPTED to identify the skills that next-generation IT leaders think they are going to need in order to be successful when their turn comes to run IT. I compiled information from four sources: the IT Leadership Academy, which...

Electronic medical records need capital.(READERS' LETTERS)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
July 4, 2005... THE ARTICLE "Gingrich: Electronic Health Records Needed in U.S." [QuickLink 54639] regarding the push toward electronic medical records addresses a theme that can enhance the quality of medical care. What the article didn't address were the...

Encrypt all data.(READERS' LETTERS)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
July 4, 2005... I APPLAUD C.J. KELLY in her efforts to creatively comply with a pending law in her state's legislature to secure personal information ["Protecting Consumer Data on the Cheap," QuickLink 54187]. But I would argue that what she is doing...

Tips were on target.(Letter to the Editor)
July 4, 2005... I READ VIRTUALLY every article that appears on the subject of resumes, and I can assure you, as a certified resume-writing professional, that the advice written by Douglas B. Richardson is some of the most accurate I have seen in some time...

Rights of passage: enterprise rights management software ensures that sensitive documents and e-mail can be circulated and don't end up in the wrong hands.(TECHNOLOGY)
July 4, 2005... WHEN CORNING INC. began selling products for military and aerospace use, the optical-fiber and cabling product manufacturer needed a way to show that it was following export controls and handling sensitive documents properly. "The government...

Neither rain nor sleet nor ... hurricanes: a Florida berry shipper finds a way to keep e-mail running under disaster conditions.(TECHNOLOGY)
July 4, 2005... IT WAS AUGUST OF LAST YEAR, and the Naples, Fla., headquarters of Global Berry Farms, a grower and shipper of bush berries, was directly in the path of a hurricane named Charley. That concerned MIS manager Brian Clancy because he hadn't yet...

Internet pioneer looks ahead: Leonard Kleinrock predicts 'really smart' handhelds and haptic interfaces but warns of out-of-control complexity.(FUTURE WATCH)(Interview)
July 4, 2005... LEONARD KLEINROCK is emeritus professor of computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He created the basic principles of packet switching, the foundation of the Internet, while a graduate student at MIT, where he earned a...

Eyeing an opening for open-source: our security manager is surprised when her boss takes an interest in exploring some open-source security options.(SECURITY MANAGER'S JOURNAL)
July 4, 2005... I DON'T CARE MUCH for Monday morning meetings. Starting a week with a meeting always seems like too sharp a transition from the weekend. Eyelids tend to droop, including mine. But on one recent Monday, I snapped to attention when my boss, the...

Veritas security flaws exploited.(VERITAS Software Corp.)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2005... Attackers have exploited security flaws in Veritas Software Corp.'s remote backup agent to take control of computers running the software, according to the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team. The organization urged users of Veritas Backup...

Microsoft takes on online crime.(contract with Japan National Police Agency)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2005... Microsoft Corp. is providing Japan's National Police Agency with early warnings about security threats to help the NPA battle online crime, said Bill Gates, the company's chairman and chief software architect. Under an agreement signed in...

Start-up debuts security device.(new ethernet cards from NetDevices Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2005... A start-up founded by three former Cisco Systems Inc, employees announced its first product, a multifunction security device. NetDevices Inc.'s SG-8 consists of hardware designed to minimize network performance problems and software...

Orchestria tool aids policy management.(new product)(Orchestria 4.0)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2005... Orchestria Corp., a New York-based provider of active policy management software, has launched Orchestria 4.0. The system, which manages policy compliance for e-mail, instant messaging and other communication channels, includes a Web console...

PwC content used in security app.(Brabeion Inc., PricewaterhouseCoopers L.L.P., contract)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2005... Brabeion Inc. will include PricewaterhouseCoopers' information security content in its Enterprise Security Architecture System. Originally developed by PwC, ESAS is a Web-based tool that helps users ensure that they comply with IT security...

Indicative 7.0 ships.(BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2005... Indicative Software has released a new version of its IT service management software. Indicative 7.0 includes new features that allow users to follow the path of business transactions via components such as JavaBeans and servlets, according to...

Mandriva upgrades security system.(BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2005... Linux vendor Mandriva SA has released the second version of its Multi Network Firewall (MNF2) infrastructure and security system. Features include OpenVPN, network interface bonding and bridging, traffic shaping, network mapping and...

Cracking down on intellectual property crime.(organizations and governments planning new rules for intellectual property crime)
July 4, 2005... IN FEBRUARY OF THIS YEAR, 24-year-old JuJu Jiang of Flushing, N.Y., was sentenced to 27 months' imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $201,620 in restitution after being convicted of charges related to...

Love that 'legacy': like it or not, old code is still around, and it needs special care.(forecast and use of old software)(Cover Story)
July 4, 2005... QUIZ: WHAT IS "LEGACY" SOFTWARE? a. Cobol/mainframe code b. Software written before 1990 c. Applications that have become obsolete d. Poorly documented systems that no one wants to touch e. Secure, reliable and effective...

Global home pages receive 'abysmal' report cards.(websites of biggest global companies)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2005... A GLOBAL CORPORATION's Web home page is an entry point for every conceivable visitor, from investors and business partners to customers, and research shows that you have only eight seconds in which to make a good first impression. But most...

ROIT leaders: financial services.(survey on return on information technology)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2005... The top five companies in the financial services industry, ranked based on how well their IT spending produced financial results for the company. COMPANY ROIT 1. SLM Corp. (Sallie Mae) 1,136% 2. Moody's Corp. ...

Best bits: the most useful parts of recent business and IT management books.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 4, 2005... THE BOOK: The 2nd Digital Revolution, by Stephen J. Andriole (CyberTech Publishing, 2005). Apparently, in the first digital revolution. IT was used for tactical operations, whereas in the second revolution. IT is at a strategic level. I'm not...

The IT economy.(survey on software products purchasing)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2005... SECURITY IS UP, ERP IS DOWN What software products are you buying more of this year? 1 Security 2 Database 3 Storage management What software products are you spending less on? 1 ERP 2 Desktop applications ...

Buying intentions.(survey of user spending expectations)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
July 4, 2005... IDC researchers say their index of business IT demand (below) shows that user spending expectations were unchanged last month. IT buyers are full of "guarded optimism," IDC analyst Carol Glasheen says, which means "users are preparing for...

Employee development on a shoestring: boosting skills needn't take much extra time or money, but it does require thought and effort.(survey)
July 4, 2005... YOUR ORGANIZATION is only as effective as the people who work there. And the best way to develop an effective and motivated workforce is to keep people challenged. So why is employee development often overlooked at U.S. companies? ...

Best vacation you never took.(Career Watch)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2005... It may be getting harder to find anyone who still has a sense of humor about offshoring. On the one hand, executives are often fretting about cost savings that haven't met expectations. On the other hand, laid-off workers don't see much to...

An MBA pays (and so does a Y chromosome).(Information technology workers survey)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2005... When it comes to IT salaries, an MBA trumps experience, according to a survey of 55,000 IT workers from 1999 to 2002. An MBA degree from a two-year program can boost a person's salary by 8.2%, according to a study published last September...

Robert N. McFarland.(Department of Veterans Affairs.)(Interview)
July 4, 2005... TITLE: Assistant secretary for information and technology [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ORGANIZATION: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Is your company reaching out to disabled veterans? Probably not. Indeed, only recently did the VA...

Feeling better.(Career Watch)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2005... According to the "2005 What's Working Survey," conducted by Mercer Human Resource Consulting Inc., employee commitment and confidence are on the rise in the U.S. Mercer polled a representative sample of workers employed by more than 800...

Offshore realities.(information technology services industry survey)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
July 4, 2005... Which describes your company's approach to using offshore IT services? We're not using them and won't in the next 12 months. 46% We have made a commitment to offshore but are still ramping up our 14% Use. We use...

The truth about 'useless' people.(MANAGEMENT)(Column)
July 4, 2005... EVERY SO OFTEN, someone will ask me what to do with "nondelivery" people. The question goes something like this: "How do you deal with people who can't execute? They are good at technical analysis, documentation and strategy, but not delivery....

Pirate justice.
July 4, 2005... DID YOU LISTEN to the news last Monday, or read the papers the next day? Did you get the impression that the U.S. Supreme Court has declared open season on file-sharing networks that might be used for piracy? You probably did--that's how the...

This fascinating business of IT.(Information technology industry)
July 4, 2005... It's Saturday night, and this pilot fish works into the wee hours helping to verify some device information in the data center. "My boss would read off a list of device numbers, and I'd check them against another display," fish says. "The list...

London attacks raise concerns of U.S. vulnerability: lack of funding, failure to commit to better security make transit systems prime targets.(NEWS)
July 11, 2005... Last week's terrorist attacks on the rail and bus systems in London highlighted both the vulnerability of the U.S. rail system and the enormous IT challenge involved in defending it, security and terrorism experts said. [ILLUSTRATION...

Protective layers: with so many types of malware stalking the Internet, companies pile on their e-mail defenses.(anti virus software)
July 11, 2005... WHEN THE NIMDA WORM struck in 2001, one of its many victims was the Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington. The worm crashed servers, erased data and forced VHC to hire a consultant. "It deleted files and brought a couple of servers to their...

Big-time storage on the cheap: increased functionality and lower component prices are making midrange storage an attractive option for many companies.(TECHNOLOGY)
July 11, 2005... LATE LAST YEAR, Ameritrade Holding Corp.'s IT department began ripping out its high-end monolithic storage systems and replacing them with less-expensive and more-modular midrange storage arrays. Asiff Hirji, CIO at the Omaha-based online...

IDS pays off, even if there's no hacking: system shows its value again as the security team sets out to mitigate the effects of a nasty worm.(Intrusion detection software)(Column)
July 11, 2005... WHEN I CAME INTO work after the weekend, a very interesting e-mail message was waiting for me. The message, with the subject line "Account Alert," appeared to be from our help desk. It requested that I read an attached document pertaining to my...

Security Bookshelf.(Layer 2 VPN Architectures)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 11, 2005... Security Bookshelf * Layer 2 VPN Architectures, by Wei Luo, Carlos Pignataro, Anthony YH Chan and Dmitry Bokotey (Cisco Press, 2005). This is a timely release for us, since we're converting our network to Multi-protocol Label...

IBM pushes use of digital certificates.(International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... IBM will try to encourage banks to make more use of digital certificates through a partnership with trusted identity company Identrus LLC. Identrus has certified Version 1.5 and higher of IBM's z/OS mainframe operating system. As a result,...

Flaw in Acrobat.(Acrobat Reader 5.x)(Adobe Systems Inc)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... Adobe Systems Inc. has warned of a serious flaw affecting Acrobat Reader 5.x for Unix and Linux. The flaw leaves users open to attack via maliciously crafted PDF files, which can be spread via e-mail attachments and Web page links and used to...

AJAX.(Asynchronous Javascript and XML)(Column)
July 11, 2005... DEFINITION Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) is an approach to developing Web applications in which client Web pages are modified asynchronously and incrementally rather than being replaced entirely every time an update is needed. ...

AJAX: MVC redux.(model-view-controller)(software architectures)(Asynchronous Javascript and XML )(Brief Article)(Column)
July 11, 2005... Some people who follow development trends bristle at the suggestion that AJAX is anything new, despite the recent coinage of the term. For them, AJAX is just the most recent incarnation of a model-view-controller (MVC) architecture for building...

Calendaring app for smaller firms.(Meeting Maker for Outlook)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... Calendaring and scheduling software vendor Meeting Maker Inc. has released Meeting Maker for Outlook, which is designed to allow small and midsize companies to run Microsoft Outlook without using Microsoft Exchange servers. The release offers...

Dell adds switch to blade servers.(BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... Dell Inc. has added McData Corp. 4314 Fibre Channel switches to its blade server line, the Dell PowerEdge 1855. The switch was designed to ease storage-area network deployment in blade server environments, said Dell. Fibre Channel traffic is...

SmartDB releases tool for Oracle.(BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... SmartDB Corp. in Menlo Park, Calif., has announced a new browser-based tool called Reportal. The software allows users of Oracle E-Business Suite applications to define queries and decide how and when query results are delivered, said the...

More data makes your business grow.(TECHNOLOGY)
July 11, 2005... THE JOB of IT departments can be concisely described as having two parts: managing data and advising business people about how the data could be used. As a general rule, there's little question as to what data might actually be involved in...

New battle brews over UCITA, software licensing terms: some users worry that act could be cited by default in courts.(Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act)
July 11, 2005... A new legislative battle is looming over the controversial UCITA software licensing law. But this time, it's software users, not vendors, who are poised to attack. The push for state-by-state adoption of the Uniform Computer Information...

Fujitsu to offer SUSE Linux.(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server software)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... Fujitsu Ltd. will begin offering Novell Inc.'s SUSE Linux Enterprise Server software and support services for Fujitsu PrimeQuest and Primergy servers in September. Fujitsu currently offers Windows and Red Hat Linux software development and...

Microsoft prices Data Protection app.(Brief Article)
July 11, 2005... At its Worldwide Partner Conference on Friday, Microsoft Corp. said that System Center Data Protection Manager, its forthcoming disk-based backup and recovery server software, will sell for about $950. That includes a DPM server license and...