Computerworld articles from July 2007

Computerworld archives from July 2007

Thank you.(EDITOR'S NOTE)(reader send thank you email)
July 9, 2007... ALMOST EXACTLY a year ago, I received an e-mail from a longtime reader who took the time to do something that neither I, nor most of the rest of us, make nearly enough effort to do. He wrote to say thanks. He's in the same position the rest...

Defending Linux.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
July 9, 2007... In his May 7 letter ["Tech Flops Are in the Eye of the Beholder"], Robert Gardner suggested that you include Linux in your list of technology flops. He may be a card-carrying Linux hater, and I may be a card-carrying Linux lover, but he should...

SIM is confronting the IT labor shortage.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
July 9, 2007... I appreciate Frank Hayes' reconsideration of the Society for Information Management's efforts to encourage students to enroll in appropriate information management courses ["Reality IT," Frankly Speaking, May 21]. Our profession appears to be...

Users call for end to SAP-Oracle suit.(ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS)(SAP AG and Oracle Corp.)
July 9, 2007... SAP AG CUSTOMERS last week said they hope the company's admission of "inappropriate downloads" of content from Oracle Corp. databases will force the two firms into settlement talks. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SAP last Tuesday divulged that...

Mass. shifts plan for open XML format.(SOFTWARE)(Massachusetts will support Microsoft Corp's Office Open Extensible markup language format)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... MASSACHUSETTS last week revealed plans to support Microsoft Corp.'s Office Open XML format, reversing an earlier controversial proposal intended to force state workers to use only "open" technologies such as the OpenDocument format. The...

Rogue DBA steals, sells personal info.(SECURITY)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... CALL IT A CASE of hiring a fox to guard the henhouse. Fidelity National Information Services Inc. said last week that a senior database administrator responsible for defining and enforcing data access rights at one of its subsidiaries sold...

Microsoft Corp.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... Microsoft Corp. will release six security updates tomorrow to patch problems in Windows, Office and the .Net Framework. Three of the bulletins will be tagged "critical"--Microsoft's highest rating--while two will be labeled "important" and the...

Nasdaq Stock Market.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... The Nasdaq Stock Market has extended to July 16 a deadline for Dell Inc. to file three late financial reports with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC began investigating Dell's accounting practices last year.

Autonomy Corp.(Short Takes)(Software vendor Autonomy Corp to acquire Zantaz Inc)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... Software vendor Autonomy Corp. has agreed to acquire Zantaz Inc., a provider of e-discovery and content archiving software, for $375 million in cash. Zantaz, which will continue to be led by CEO Steve King, will become a division of Autonomy.

Business Software Alliance.(Short Takes)(has increased reward for reporting software piracy from $200,000 to $1 million)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... The Business Software Alliance has temporarily raised the reward for reporting software piracy from $200,000 to $1 million until Oct. 2.

VA report spreads blame for data loss.(SECURITY)(Department of Veterans Affairs )(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... AN IT WORKER at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs didn't properly secure data stored on an external hard drive that was lost or stolen in January, and he then initially lied about the scope of the data breach, according to a June 29...

Many iPhone users are forced to hold.(MOBILE & WIRELESS)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... IAIN GILLOTT waited in the Texas heat to buy an iPhone on June 29, the day Apple Inc.'s much-ballyhooed mobile device went on sale. But then it took him 47 hours to activate his new phone. First, Gillott, a wireless technology analyst at...

Between the lines.(News Digest)(Cartoon)
July 9, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Mozilla Corp.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... MOZILLA CORP. released the last planned alpha version of Firefox 3.0 in anticipation of starting public beta testing of the Web browser upgrade on July 31. A commercial release of the browser is due late this year. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

ECMA International.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(European Computer Manufacturers Association to form a technical committee )(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... ECMA INTERNATIONAL, a Geneva-based standards body, formed a technical committee that will develop a standard based on Microsoft Corp.'s XML Paper Specification. XPS is a potential rival to Adobe Systems Inc.'s Portable Document Format.

30 years ago.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)
July 9, 2007... 30 YEARS AGO: The first crime bill related to data processing was introduced in the U.S. Senate.

U.S. firm closes office in India.(Global Dispatches)(Riya Inc.)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... BANGALORE, INDIA -- Riya Inc., a maker of visual search-engine technology, has announced plans to close its research and engineering operations in Bangalore. The company plans to move the operations to its headquarters in San Mateo, Calif. ...

Deadline looms over passenger pact.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... BRUSSELS -- Critics of an agreement allowing European airline passengers' personal data to be shared with U.S. authorities have just under a month to reshape the accord during upcoming debates in Europe's parliaments. The European Union...

Briefly noted.(investigation of Telefonica)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... The EU's antitrust regulator has fined Madrid-based telecommunications company Telefonica SA [euro]152 million ($207 million U.S.) for overcharging competitors for wholesale access to broadband services in Spain. The commission opened its...

Random-access memories: offbeat recollections of 40 years of the computer world.(40TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION)(Era overview)
July 9, 2007... IT WAS 1967. Students were protesting an unpopular war. Beatle John Lennon was on the cover of the first issue of Rolling Stone. And Patrick J. McGovern started Computerworld, a newsweekly for "the computer community," to tell computer buyers...

A tale of two readers: a pair of Computerworld's first subscribers miss the old days but look back on long, fruitful careers.(40TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION)
July 9, 2007... As WE looked back on Computerworld's 40-year history, we reached out to two longtime readers who have been part of the IT scene for more than four decades. Although they aren't entirely happy with the course IT has taken over the years, they...

40 Under 40: 40 Innovative IT People to Watch, Under the Age of 40; These next-generation IT leaders are building careers on their own terms, giving back in a big way and redefining what it means to be successful.(40TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION)
July 9, 2007... ONE OF Hayden Hamilton's cherished childhood possessions was a soldering iron. He used it to tinker with stereo equipment and other electronics, creating one-of-a-kind gadgets in between launching a string of start-up businesses that included a...

True tales of IT life as told to Sharky.(SharkTank)
July 9, 2007... Imponderable User calls pilot fish to report that the company's phone lines have gone down--nobody can make or receive long-distance calls. Fish pulls out his cell phone and calls the telco to report the outage. Telco guy: "The reception...

The iPhone project.(FRANKLY SPEAKING)
July 9, 2007... THE iPHONE has finally arrived. Apple sold more than 500,000 of the little darlings the first weekend, and you can be sure that some of the people who bought them are at your company. They'll want to use their iPhones for work. And no matter...

Tale of an IT hero.(EDITOR'S NOTE)(Dale Frantz)
July 16, 2007... WHEN DALE FRANTZ says that his massive migration from Microsoft Windows to the Apple platform isn't a vengeance case, believe him. Over the past few years, I've worked with Frantz closely enough to know not only that the CIO of Auto Warehousing...

Responses to: YouTube video puts sharp focus on tech job ads.(ONLINE CHATTER)(Brief article)
July 16, 2007... June 28, 2007 My friend asked about a job listed on my current employer's external Web site. When I couldn't find it in the internal Web site, I asked HR. This is what they e-mailed back: "The requisitions on the EXTERNAL Web site are...

Responses to: H-1B video shocker: 'our goal is clearly not to find a qualified ... U.S. worker'.(ONLINE CHATTER)(Brief article)
July 16, 2007... June 19, 2007 I confess. I once pushed these scams. I used to be in the sleazy tech recruiting racket, so I know this routine all too well. Back in the late 1990s to the early 2000s, I was a recruiter for two tech recruiting agencies in...

Playing catch-up, Microsoft finally enters hosted CRM.(ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS)(customer relationship management)
July 16, 2007... YEARS AFTER upstarts like Salesforce.com Inc. broke ground in the hosted customer relationship management business, Microsoft Corp. last week finally unveiled its own hosted service at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver. ...

Microsoft sets launch plans--for next year.(SOFTWARE)(Windows Server 2008)(Brief article)
July 16, 2007... DENVER -- Kevin Turner, Microsoft Corp.'s chief operating officer, said at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference here last week that Windows Server 2008--formerly code-named Longhorn Server--will be launched next February along with...

Tenn. plans to move IT to higher ground.(DATA CENTERS)(Brief article)
July 16, 2007... TWENTY YEARS AGO, the state of Tennessee built a 70,000-square-foot data center in Nashville on top of a landfill, near the Cumberland River and working railroad tracks. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Now the data center's floor is cracking,...

Oracle Corp.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
July 16, 2007... Oracle Corp. tomorrow will release 46 patches for a variety of products, including its Oracle Database 10g, Application Server and E-Business Suite. Two of the 20 Oracle database fixes patch vulnerabilities that could allow remote execution of...

Microsoft Corp., EMC Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc.(Short Takes)(Secure Information Sharing Architecture)(Brief article)
July 16, 2007... Microsoft Corp., EMC Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. have jointly unveiled plans to create a system for sharing sensitive government data, called the Secure Information Sharing Architecture. The system would allow only authorized government...

Mozilla Corp.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
July 16, 2007... Mozilla Corp. has delayed the first beta of its Firefox 3.0 browser by at least six weeks, until mid-September or later. A final version is still slated for 2008.

Michael Capellas has been named to the same post at First Data Corp.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
July 16, 2007... Michael Capellas, former CEO of Compaq Computer Corp. and MCI Inc., has been named to the same post at First Data Corp., a provider of electronic payment products.

IBM opens door to users on AIX testing.(OPERATING SYSTEMS)(Brief article)
July 16, 2007... IBM'S BETA TESTING of its AIX operating system will no longer be an invitation-only event. Last Thursday, the company announced that beta testing will be open to any users who want to download an early version of the latest upgrade, called...

Microsoft crosses border on coding.(SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT)(Brief article)
July 16, 2007... O CANADA, indeed. No H-1B visa cap. An exchange rate that puts the Canadian dollar almost at parity with its U.S. counterpart. And now an endorsement from Microsoft Corp. as a place to develop software. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On July...

Between the lines.(NEWS DIGEST)(Cartoon)
July 16, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Binyamin Schwartz.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
July 16, 2007... Binyamin Schwartz, 28, of Oak Park, Mich., was sentenced to five years in federal prison for stealing and trying to sell the personal data of more than 110,000 people while working as a software consultant at Sentry Insurance Co.

The U.S. Department of Justice.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
July 16, 2007... The U.S. Department of Justice belatedly submitted a report to Congress detailing six data mining initiatives under way or planned by the FBI and other DOJ units.

50 years ago.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(personal paging service was developed)(Brief article)
July 16, 2007... 50 YEARS AGO: AT & T's Bell of Pennsylvania unit began trials of a personal paging service with a pocket-size receiver.

Kaspersky sues Chinese vendor.(Global Dispatches)(Kaspersky Lab Ltd. sues Rising Technology Co.)(Brief article)
July 16, 2007... TIANJIN CITY, CHINA -- Moscow-based security soft-ware vendor Kaspersky Lab Ltd. has filed a lawsuit against Rising Technology Co., a Beijing-based antivirus soft-ware company, contending that Rising made false claims about Kasperky's products...

Parliament seeks bids for IT work.(Global Dispatches)(Australian Department of Parliamentary Services)(Brief article)
July 16, 2007... CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA -- The Australian Department of Parliamentary Services, which provides IT services to the Parliament House, is seeking bids to replace its 10-year-old ParlInfo document management system with a more modern application. ...

Briefly noted.(Global Dispatches)(BlackBerry approved for China market)(Brief article)
July 16, 2007... Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry handheld devices finally cleared regulatory hurdles and were approved for sale in China. RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie said a delivery schedule is being finalized. Robert McMillan, IDG News Service ...

Pandemic planning not at fever pitch: some IT execs are preparing for flu outbreak, but broad interest appears to be waning.(NEWS ANALYSIS)
July 16, 2007... JAMES SELIGMAN, CIO at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, may be among the first people to know if the U.S. is struck by a pandemic, such as an avian flu outbreak. Seligman's IT staff is building a system that will enable the CDC...

Users plan for quick Oracle 11g upgrades: security improved; broad grid support still lacking.(NEWS ANALYSIS)
July 16, 2007... ORACLE DATABASE users last week said they expect to quickly upgrade to the new 11g release, which adds new security and management features but continues to lack support for grid technology. Oracle 11g, unveiled last week in New York, is...

Backup battle begins anew.(On the Mark)(Brief article)
July 16, 2007... TAPE HAS ruled the storage backup market since, well, forever. Mike Sparkes, a product manager at backup behemoth Quantum Corp. in San Jose, acknowledges past assaults on tape's dominance from low-cost Serial ATA drives and optical media, but...

ColdFusion: get it while it's hot.(On the Mark)(Adobe ColdFusion )(Brief article)
July 16, 2007... Grabbing database information for Web pages has been the bread and butter of ColdFusion, says Tim Buntel, senior product marketing manager at San Jose-based Adobe Systems Inc. Adobe took over ColdFusion when it acquired Macromedia Inc., and...

Communities carry risks.(On the Mark)(online communities)(Brief article)
July 16, 2007... Building a social community around your brand is all the rage. But rage may be what you risk when you let customers communicate with one another on your Web site. Matt Goddard, principal at Baltimore Web consultancy R2i.ntegrated, says his...

Geoffrey A. Moore: the best-selling business author and innovation guru tells how to neutralize the competition, where to spend those productivity savings and why scrimping on IT is just dumber than dirt.(THE GRILL)(Interview)
July 16, 2007... Is innovation inherently disruptive? Only one type of innovation is disruptive, but it gets a lot of press [because] disruptive innovations bring about new categories of business. They're spectacular, and they're fun to write about. Another...

Lessons from a Mac OS switcher.(OPINION)(Product/service evaluation)
July 16, 2007... OVER THE past few months, I've put aside my PC and switched over to a Macintosh full time. I wanted to take a closer look at the viability of the Mac for business use, something more and more users are considering (see "Mac Attack," page 26). I...

Mac attack! Just down the road from Redmond, an enterprise Microsoft shop is switching to Apple.(Auto Warehousing Co.)
July 16, 2007... It's little things like the small silver Apple logo on CIO Dale Frantz's crisp white shirt that signal the sea change in the works at Auto Warehousing Co. [??] Over the next 60 days, AWC will begin systematically pulling the plug on all...

The future really is now: forecaster Paul Saffo explains how to recognize it when you see it.(Q & A)(Interview)
July 16, 2007... "Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of companies who mistook a clear view for a short distance," says Paul Saffo in this month's Harvard Business Review. Even when you see a change coming, it's difficult to estimate how quickly it will...

Back to basics: code; Building computers isn't so hard, but making them work is something else again.(SOFTWARE)
July 16, 2007... "We but teach bloody instructions, which being taught, return to plague the inventor." --Macbeth FEW DISTINCTIONS in computer technology are as clear as the one between hardware and software. But it was not always so. The term...

Getting the word out about DRM: top execs will be the first to use Microsoft DRM technology. So, what could go wrong? Best not to find out.(SECURITY MANAGER'S JOURNAL)
July 16, 2007... AFTER months of preparation, I got the OK to go live with my digital rights management (DRM) project this past week. The final hurdle to deploying Microsoft Rights Management Service (RMS) was a new step in the project management process,...

You can't outsource retention.(OPINION)(employee retention)
July 16, 2007... "EXCUSE ME?" I said to my new boss with barely concealed incredulity. "You shouldn't thank your people for just doing their jobs. That's what the paycheck is for." Had I really just been admonished for thanking a member of my staff...

World class.(Career Watch)(executive education schools)(Brief article)
July 16, 2007... The 10 best schools for executive education, as ranked by the Financial Times this spring: 1 Harvard Business School, U.S. 2 Stanford University Graduate School of Business, U.S. 3 University of Virginia, Darden, U.S. 4...

Too many chiefs.(Career Watch)(Brief article)
July 16, 2007... If you've been working for one company for a while and your title hasn't changed to chief architect, say, or you aren't yet chief security officer, chief technology officer, or chief cook and bottle washer, you may be behind the curve--the...

Graham Doxey: the president of Neumont University in South Jordan, Utah, talks about the school's project-based curriculum for computer science.(Q & A)(Interview)(Brief article)
July 16, 2007... How does Neumont's approach differ from traditional CS programs? We view the employer who will hire our graduates as our customer. Our campus and curriculum are designed to mirror the environment our students will experience in the workplace....

Training spending on the rise.(Career Watch)(Brief article)
July 16, 2007... Still far short of the recent peak in 2000, average training expenditures as a percentage of payroll (excluding benefits and taxes) are inching back up. 1999 3.20% 2000 3.37% 2001 2.85% 2002 2.47% 2003 2.05% 2004...

True tales of IT life as told to Sharky.(SharkTank)
July 16, 2007... One Step Back New on-site auditor is fresh out of college and following a script, says an IT pilot fish who isn't. "In discussing our security, he questioned whether the data center was 24/7," fish says. "I assured him that it was, but he...

Real Software Assurance.(FRANKLY SPEAKING)
July 16, 2007... ABOUT ONE QUARTER of big Microsoft customers have had it with Software Assurance. That's according to Forrester analyst Julie Giera, who said in a report last week that along with the 25% who won't renew their maintenance contracts, another...

Timeout.(EDITOR'S NOTE)(Editorial)(Reprint)
July 23, 2007... A FEW WEEKS AGO, when I interviewed Hewlett-Packard Executive Vice President Ann Livermore, I asked her several of those personal dossier questions that we include as a sidebar in the special Q & A feature we call "The Grill." (I had to ask in...

The Mac's real cost advantage: durability.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
July 23, 2007... As a recent convert to the Mac, Online Editorial Director Scot Finnie has overlooked a significant factor: durability ["Mac vs. PC Cost Analysis: How Does It All Add Up?" Computerworld.com, June 8]. I'm typing this on a Mac G3 purchased in...

Microsoft's scheme.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
July 23, 2007... In the article "Linux Camp Divided on Microsoft Deals" [News, June 25], known Linux detractor Laura DiDio of Yankee Group comments that vendors buying into Microsoft's scheme can provide protection for their enterprise users. The fact that...

Feds seek $3.3M in fines on lab breach.(SECURITY)(Department of Energy)
July 23, 2007... THE U.S. DEPARTMENT of Energy has proposed fines totaling $3.3 million against the current and former operators of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, saying they failed to protect classified data that was compromised in a security breach...

Dual-mode BlackBerry debuts.(MOBILE & WIRELESS)(Brief article)
July 23, 2007... Research In Motion Ltd. last week announced the first dual-mosw BlackBerry device, which can provide voice and data services over both cellular and Wi-Fi networks. Scheduled to become available in the U.S. through AT & T Inc. this summer,...

Some companies delay issuing breach notices.(SECURITY)
July 23, 2007... A LETTER from an attorney for Pfizer Inc. to Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says the drug maker first learned of a data breach involving about 17,000 of its employees on April 18--six weeks before it started notifying the...

Claims of flawed voting at ITIL group still murky.(MANAGEMENT)(IT Service Management Forum's U.S. chapter)(Brief article)
July 23, 2007... THE QUESTION of whether someone compromised an online election held last fall by the IT Service Management Forum's U.S. chapter remains an unsolved mystery. Even the source of the complaints that the voting was rigged can't be positively...

Texas not hiding data under its hat.(PRIVACY)(Brief article)
July 23, 2007... FORMER DALLAS COWBOYS quarterback Troy Aikman may be an icon in Texas, but that hasn't stopped the state from making his address and Social Security number available on the Internet. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sensitive personal data about...

Between the lines.(NEWS DIGEST)(Cartoon)
July 23, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Wipro Ltd.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
July 23, 2007... India-based Wipro Ltd. said it expects to open a software development center in Atlanta within the next three months. The facility is the first of four development centers that the IT services firm plans to locate in the U.S.

Oracle Corp.(Short Takes)(Bharosa Inc. acquisition)(Brief article)
July 23, 2007... Oracle Corp. said it has agreed to buy Bharosa Inc., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based vendor of software for detecting online identity theft and fraud. The purchase price wasn't disclosed.

EMC Corp.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
July 23, 2007... EMC Corp. announced the Symmetrix DMX-4, a high-end disk array with end-to-end data throughput of 4Gbit/sec.

Corrections.(Correction notice)
July 23, 2007... In the July 9 issue's "40 Under 40" section, the ages of two of the profiled IT leaders were listed incorrectly. Ben Chelf. chief technology officer at Coverity Inc., is 28. And Jason Lish, senior manager of application and SAP security at...

Electronic Data Systems Corp.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
July 23, 2007... Electronic Data Systems Corp. said Ronald Ritten-meyer, 60, its president and chief operating officer, will become CEO Sept. 1. Current CEO Michael Jordan will continue as chairman.

IDC.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
July 23, 2007... Market research firm IDC said worldwide PC shipments grew 12.5% year to year in the second quarter, with every major vendor except Dell Inc. reporting double-digit increases.

Two years ago.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Interex shut down)(Brief article)
July 23, 2007... TWO YEARS AGO: Interex, a user group for Hewlett-Packard Co. customers, canceled its annual HP World conference and shut down for financial reasons.

EU sets date for antitrust ruling.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
July 23, 2007... LUXEMBOURG -- The European Court of First Instance will announce its long-awaited verdict on Microsoft Corp.'s antitrust appeal on Sept. 17, sources said last week. The European Commission ruled in 2004 that Microsoft had abused the...

Offshore IT firms report growth.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
July 23, 2007... MUMBAI, INDIA -- Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. last week reported strong revenue and profit growth despite the appreciation of the Indian rupee against the U.S. dollar and rising salaries in India. TCS, India's largest outsourcing vendor,...

Briefly noted.(Global Dispatches)(phishing scam in Italy)(Brief article)
July 23, 2007... Italian police arrested 26 people in connection with an alleged phishing scam that was designed to swindle bank customers. One of those arrested said the scammers sent fraudulent e-mails that appeared to come from Poste Italiane SpA, the...

University grading dual-mode phones: hopes to spread system to 30,000 users by 2009.(MOBILE & WIRELESS)
July 23, 2007... GEORGE Washington University is testing 25 dual-mode wireless phones that allow users to move between indoor Wi-Fi networks and outdoor cellular networks. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If the technology proves reliable and its promise to cut...

Companies scramble to archive e-mail: legal and regulatory requirements force costly projects.(STORAGE)
July 23, 2007... REGULATORY and legal issues are forcing IT managers to create costly e-mail storage and archival systems as electronic documents replace paper as official business records. Users and analysts note that courts and regulators are increasingly...

Print chips just like memos.(On the Mark)(Brief article)
July 23, 2007... KLAUS SCHROETER envisions a popular, low-cost, foolproof, biometrically protected future for all IT systems. It's easy, he says, once you start producing application-specific "organic semiconductors" on ink-jet printers, which is, of course,...

Upgrade is no game.(On the Mark)(Brief article)
July 23, 2007... Migrating a supercomputer system to new high-performance computing (HPC) management software isn't an easy process. It's harder still when your plan is to make the change without disrupting your 200,000 users, who will continue to bang away at...