Computerworld articles from July 2008

Computerworld archives from July 2008

Insight and denial.(EDITOR'S NOTE)(Editorial)
July 14, 2008... INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY pros are an insightful breed. I know my fair share of them, and I've noticed that a lot of them tend to focus on how practical information and lessons learned can be applied to their work, even when the lessons come from...

Genderless insights.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
July 14, 2008... Don Tennant's June 23 column, "The Bigger Question," on gender in IT was insightful, but not necessarily because of anything to do with gender. Please let me explain. I have been in IT for over 40 years. I knew I was in a non-mentoring...

Finding true diversity.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
July 14, 2008... The Grill interview with Laraine Rodgers [June 23] was terrific--what a tremendous career arc, with the added dimension of her experiences as a woman in IT. And this same issue of the magazine included columns from Virginia Robbins and...

Outsourcing deal, layoffs lead to end of tax breaks.(IT MANAGEMENT)
July 14, 2008... THE NIELSEN CO. is giving up tax breaks that have netted it $1.4 million since 2001, in response to political fallout from an IT offshoring deal that has led to layoffs at its global technology center in Olds-mar, Fla. [ILLUSTRATION...

VMware replaces CEO Greene.(VIRTUALIZATION)(chief executive officer Diane Greene)(Brief article)
July 14, 2008... VMware Inc. last week ousted CEO Diane Greene and replaced her with Paul Maritz, a former top executive at Microsoft Corp., which is posing a new challenge to VMware's dominance of the server virtualization market. VMware also warned that...

EPA to start small on Energy Star for servers.(HARDWARE)
July 14, 2008... THE U.S. Environmental Protection Agency expects to introduce its first Energy Star rating for servers by year's end, though a more comprehensive system that measures the energy consumed by actual workloads will take longer to develop. ...

Apple Inc.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
July 14, 2008... Apple Inc. began selling the iPhone 3G on Friday, but the launch wasn't glitch-free. In-store activations in the U.S. had to be suspended because users were having problems connecting to the iTunes 7.7 software needed to configure the device....

Microsoft Corp.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
July 14, 2008... Microsoft Corp. last Wednesday released a software update designed to fix a problem that blocks PCs running Office 2003 from getting patches via its Windows Server Update Services tool. But the next day, the company said it may have to revise...

Microsoft.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
July 14, 2008... Microsoft also confirmed that attackers are actively exploiting an unpatched bug in Word 2002 But the company "is aware only of limited, targeted attacks that attempt to use this vulnerability," a spokesman said.

Backers stage protest on Obama's social network.(WEB 2.0)(Barack Obama )(Brief article)
July 14, 2008... IN A DEVELOPMENT that shows how users can take Web 2.0 sites in unexpected directions, a group of Barack Obama supporters is using his presidential campaign's official social network to protest the Illinois senator's stance on a bill extending...

IT group claims former official used pseudonym to discredit it in blogs.(LEGAL ISSUES)(Brief article)
July 14, 2008... THE U.S. chapter of the IT Service Management Forum has filed a defamation lawsuit against its former executive director, alleging that he tried to discredit the group via blog comments posted under a fictitious female name. The lawsuit...

Earlier developments.(Information Technology Service Management Forum)(Brief article)
July 14, 2008... MAY 2007: The ITSMF USA notifies members of claims that an online board election in 2006 was compromised. JULY 2007: The group's president says an outside investigation found "clear evidence" of a small number of fraudulent votes. ...

Between the lines.(Cartoon)
July 14, 2008... talk to him! MAY '08 OBAMA CONTACT OBAMA say hi! let him know what you think!! my barackobama.co MAY '08 THIS ISN'T WHAT WE HAD in MIND, OBAM '08 NO to FISH [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Yahoo Inc.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
July 14, 2008... Yahoo Inc. released a beta version of an API that other companies can use to develop Yahoo-based search services for their Web sites. Rival Google Inc. already offers a similar capability.

Microsoft Corp.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
July 14, 2008... One week after stopping most sales of Windows XP, Microsoft Corp. made itsService Pack 3 update available for automatic downloads via Windows Update.

Seven years ago.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
July 14, 2008... Seven years ago: In a prime example of the dotcom bust's business failures, online grocer Webvan Group Inc. shut down and said it would file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

IT thefts stop online presses.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
July 14, 2008... LONDON-The Financial Times newspaper was temporarily unable to post stories or update content on its Web site last Thursday, following a theft of servers and other IT equipment from a hosting facility run by Cable & Wireless PLC. ...

Yahoo alerts EC to Google deal.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
July 14, 2008... Yahoo Inc. has notified European antitrust regulators about the search-advertising deal it signed with Google Inc. last month, even though the agreement applies only to its Web sites in the U.S. and Canada. A Yahoo spokeswoman said via...

Briefly noted.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
July 14, 2008... British Airways PLC said that its high-tech baggage system isn't at fault for nearly a thousand pieces of luggage being delayed or misplaced daily at a Heathrow Airport terminal used exclusively by the airline. BA blamed other airlines for not...

DNS hole doesn't go unnoticed: a flaw in the DNS protocol didn't merit Microsoft's highest severity rating. But it's certainly getting a lot of attention.(NEWS ANALYSIS)(Domain Name System)
July 14, 2008... A SOFTWARE PATCH released by Microsoft Corp. to plug a hole in the Domain Name System protocol was just one of nine security fixes the company issued last week. And like the others, the DNS patch got only an "important" severity rating, one...

Seven years and counting: national disease-tracking system still; A dozen have yet to install technology needed to enable public health officials to monitor disease outbreaks via the Web.(NEWS ANALYSIS)
July 14, 2008... YOU MIGHT think that in the event of a major epidemic across the U.S., public health officials at the federal, state and local levels could track the outbreak electronically, using real-time data to try to control the spread of the disease. ...

End it's data deficit.(On the Mark)(BDNA Corp.)
July 14, 2008... IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE a data deficit in the CIO's office, given the reams of reports spewing out of IT. But Ray Homan argues that there is one. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Howan is the CEO of BDNA Corp. in Mountain View, Calif., which...

The Simmons bedding CIO talks about 'plain vanilla' systems, standardization and just-in-time IT.(THE GRILL)(W. Wade Vann)(Interview)
July 14, 2008... How is your IT unit organized? We have a centralized IT group, here in Atlanta, that supports all of our 19 manufacturing operations in the U.S. We have four plants in Canada, but they're on a separate system. We just bought them last year, and...

How agile analysts get things done.(OPINION)
July 14, 2008... HERE'S A SITUATION to ponder. Let's say one of your company's divisions has hit on a great new business model that's impressing even the accountants. Headquarters decides this business needs to be scaled up and rolled out nationally--fast. ...

E-Medical records: What seems to be the problem? There are lots of challenges, but financial disincentives may be the biggest.(Cover story)
July 14, 2008... IT'S BEEN ABOUT THREE YEARS since San Diego's five major hospitals first convened to discuss sharing electronic medical record data in an effort to improve diagnoses, reduce errors and improve the quality of patient care. The group held several...

Quality over quantity: this drug firm's approach to application support uses more service-level metrics and fewer vendors.(SOFTWARE)(Company overview)
July 14, 2008... 100 PERMIER IT LEADERS 2008 2008 BEST IN CLASS This story is part of an ongoing series showcasing the best projects of this year's Premier 100 IT Leaders. Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research &...

Should we tell the boss? Here are five things your boss always wants to hear--and five things he hopes you'll never tell him.
July 14, 2008... 100 PERMIER IT LEADERS 2008 AS AN IT PROFESSIONAL, you know the basic rules of office politics, the simple do's and don'ts that govern life at work. Adhering to these standards--the ones that tell you to be proactive and a team...

Shoveling sand against the tide: the frustrations of slashed budgets and inadequate manpower come to a head. Is it time for a change?(SECURITY MANAGER'S JOURNAL)
July 14, 2008... I WAS RECENTLY shocked to discover that one of our primary Web sites was not properly secured. The site includes a form that recipients of our services fill out with personally identifiable information, including Social Security number,...

How to get value from outsiders.(OPINION)(Column)
July 14, 2008... THIS SUMMER marks my 20th year as an IT consultant. I've been fortunate enough to work with more than 100 companies, big and small, public and private, on three continents. I've had the opportunity to observe how organizations derive value...

Don't stress out about calling in sick.(Career Watch)(Brief article)
July 14, 2008... Employers in both the U.K. and Australia are looking at voice analysis technology that they think could help reduce absenteeism. The technology makes thousands of checks on a voice in the course of a telephone call. A tool called Voice Risk...

SAPped workforce.(Career Watch)
July 14, 2008... For the seventh consecutive quarter, Foote Partners LLC's Pay Index shows that the average pay for a large group of IT certifications declined, falling 1.6% in the six months that ended April 1. But salaries for a similarly large group of...

Slowdown hits IT.(Career Watch)(Brief article)
July 14, 2008... IT has been among the more resilient sectors of the economy this year, but the overall slowdown is having an effect there as well. The most compelling evidence of that may be Janco Associates Inc.'s 2008 Mid-Year IT Salary Survey. That study,...

True tales of it life as told to sharky.(SharkTank)
July 14, 2008... Try, Try Again Hospital IT help desk gets a call from nurses in the clinic who say they're having trouble adding paper to their laser printer. "They told the tech that the eject button for the paper tray was not working properly," says a...

Fix DNS now.(FRANKLY SPEAKING)(Domain Name System)(Column)
July 14, 2008... IF YOU'RE a hard-core IT security wonk, you already know about this. If not, go to Doxpara.com right now and click on the button that says "Check my DNS." That will run a simple test to tell you whether your name server appears to be vulnerable...

Raining mud.(EDITOR'S NOTE)(George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston)
July 21, 2008... I'LL ADMIT that when I walked into the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston a couple of weeks ago on the opening day of the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, I did so with a preconception. I was fairly certain that the topic of...

Should 'spam king' soloway pay the price for worse?(RESPONSES TO:)
July 21, 2008... July 11, 2008 The punishment does fit the crime. Spam is theft--spammers take up space on my servers, they take up bandwidth on my Internet pipes, and they make me buy more hardware to filter their junk out. We need to make an example...

Microsoft warns users of coming update to windows update.(RESPONSE TO:)
July 21, 2008... July 7, 2008 About the only Windows automatic update that I ever want to be a part of again is the one that will update Vista to not-Vista. Any news on when that one is coming? I used to be a big defender of Microsoft. Now I just get...

San Francisco IT admin locks up city network.(NETWORK MANAGEMENT)
July 21, 2008... A NETWORK administrator late last week pleaded innocent to charges that he locked up a key city of San Francisco computer network and refused to disclose the passwords he set. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] San Francisco District Attorney...

DBA gets jail time for data thefts.(CYBERCRIME)(database administrator)(Brief article)
July 21, 2008... A FORMER database administrator at Certegy Check Services Inc. who admitted that he stole and then sold the personal data of about 8.5 million consumers was sentenced to 57 months in prison by a federal judge in Florida this month. In...

SAP forcing support upgrades on customers.(SOFTWARE)
July 21, 2008... SAP AG last week announced plans to "transition" all customers to its new enterprise-level support program as of Jan. 1, 2009. The change will provide some customers with increased levels of service but also make them pay higher fees. The...

Microsoft Corp.(Short Takes)(fourth-quarter results rose 18%)(Brief article)
July 21, 2008... Even though its online services business unit incurred operating losses of $488 million, Microsoft Corp. said that its fourth-quarter revenue rose 18% to $15.8 billion and that its profits rose more than $1 billion to $4.3 billion.

The European Commission levied three new antitrust charges against Intel Corp.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
July 21, 2008... The European Commission levied three new antitrust charges against Intel Corp. The EC said the charges reinforce a complaint filed last year in which the chip maker was accused of abusing its dominant market position.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc.(Short Takes)(Dirk Meyer is appointed as chief executive officer)(Brief article)
July 21, 2008... Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has promoted President Dirk Meyer to CEO. He replaces Hector Ruiz. AMD announced the move after reporting its seventh consecutive quarterly loss.

Correction.(Correction notice)
July 21, 2008... The vendor of thin clients being installed by Enterprise Rent-A-Car Co. was incorrectly identified in a story in the June 30/July 7 issue ("Environmental Impact: IT Sees the Light on Green Computing"). The devices are made by Wyse Technology...

No entry to SAP site for business objects users.(BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE)(Brief article)
July 21, 2008... SAP ACKNOWLEDGED last week that problems with an online support switchover for Business Objects customers had left many of the users unable to access its support portal. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SAP, which bought Business Objects SA in...

State launches project to replace sinking data center.(GOVERNMENT IT)(Brief article)
July 21, 2008... THE STATE of Tennessee is relocating--at least partially--a data center located on an unstable landfill next to a railroad and downstream from a large dam that, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is at risk of failing. ...

Between the lines.(NEWS DIGEST)(Cartoon)
July 21, 2008... OH, WE ALL HAVE OUR iPHONES. THIS LINE IS TO FIND A LOCATION WITH A DECENT CALL SIGNAL. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

The SCO Group Inc.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
July 21, 2008... In another legal blow to The SCO Group Inc., a federal judge ordered it to pay $2.55 million to Novell Inc. for improperly collecting Unix licensing revenue from Sun Microsystems Inc.

Apple Inc.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
July 21, 2008... Despite the activation glitches that marred the launch of the iPhone 3G, Apple Inc. said it sold 1 million of the devices in the first three days of sales.

40 years ago: Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore incorporated Intel Corp., initially as NM Electronics Inc.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
July 21, 2008... 40 YEARS AGO: Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore incorporated Intel Corp., initially as NM Electronics Inc. The duo had obtained start-up funding with a one-page business plan.

Barclays offshores 1,800 U.K. IT jobs.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
July 21, 2008... LONDON -- Barclays PLC last week disclosed plans to move some 1,800 of its 2,800 U.K.-based IT jobs to facilities in Singapore, Hungary and India over the next three years. The London-based financial services firm said the move is part of...

Intel launches Indian online mart.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
July 21, 2008... BANGALORE, India -- Intel Corp. last week launched an online exchange to help small and midsize businesses in India purchase business software and services for use with Intel technology. The Intel Business Exchange for India, based here,...

Short takes.(Global Dispatches)(Jackson Hu resigns as chairman and chief executive officer of United Microelectronics Corp)(Brief article)
July 21, 2008... Jackson Hu resigned last week as chairman and CEO of Hsinchu, Taiwan-based United Microelectronics Corp. Hu had replaced company founder Robert Tsao in 2006. Tsao stepped down after he was charged with illegally investing in China. UMC Chief...

Corporate IT can learn a lot from web 2.0 coders: companies can cut costs and boost productivity by focusing more on their users.(NEWS ANALYSIS)
July 21, 2008... ON JULY 14, Yahoo Inc.'s Flickr unit reported that the latest update to the photo-sharing Web site went live two days earlier with five changes made by two of its developers. The July 12 "deployment" was the 42nd new release in a week where 19...

Vendors to IT: no economic stimulus packages for you: as the economic news gets bleaker, IT execs aren't getting many price breaks from vendors. And in some cases, prices are actually going up.(NEWS ANALYSIS)
July 21, 2008... ON THE SAME day last week that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave a gloomy assessment of the U.S. economy to members of a House committee, SAP AG announced plans to shift all of its users to a new support plan that will increase their...

Power management system.(Cartoon)
July 21, 2008... I've PROMOTED BERNIE to RUN OUR POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. He's SAVING US A BUNDLE. SPLENDID. THERES NO ICE up ON THe POLE sop THiS is THe cooLEST JoiNT ON THe PLANet. I FEEL YA, DAWG. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

How green is your UPS?(On the Mark)
July 21, 2008... SERVERS, SWITCHES and routers certainly suck up a lot of electricity. But according to power engineers at Cleveland-based Eaton Corp., all that hardware actually accounts for less than a third of your data center's electricity demand. Your HVAC...

Robert Madge; The Token Ring pioneer talks about his high-flying days, his company's collapse and how strengths can sometimes become weaknesses.(THE GRILL)(Interview)
July 21, 2008... Does the name Robert Madge mean anything to you? It probably rings a bell, if a distant one. Madge was the founder of Madge Networks Inc., which in the late '90s was the market leader in Token Ring networking technology. The once high-flying...

Microsoft's turning point.(OPINION)
July 21, 2008... MICROSOFT IS probably standing at its most important crossroads ever, just when Bill Gates is waving goodbye. Well, actually, Microsoft has been missing Gates for a long time. Something happened after the 2004 antitrust ruling, both to...

How to get more out of ITIL with Version 3: advice from users who have been around the track.(COVER STORY)(Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
July 21, 2008... IT HAS BEEN JUST over a year since the introduction of Version 3 of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL). The update to ITIL, a framework for best practices in IT service delivery, was intended to sharpen its focus and attract a new group of...

Six stupid budget tricks: Dumb but common monetary mistakes and how to avoid them.(MANAGEMENT)
July 21, 2008... GIVEN the murky economic outlook, budgetary efficiency is an increasingly important part of every IT leader's job. In fact, according to "The State of Enterprise IT Budgets: 2008," a March report from Gartner Inc., 75% of enterprises say...

Meet tomorrow's mobile phones; Old Ma Bell would hardly recognize these futuristic upstarts.(MOBILE & WIRELESS)
July 21, 2008... THE cookie-cutter approach to designing mobile phones could disappear in the next few years as designers get more daring and more personal. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "All phones today do the basics well," says...

For once, some incontestable ROI: return on investment can be elusive in infosec. But a disaster averted is a blessing in disguise.(SECURITY MANAGER'S JOURNAL)
July 21, 2008... RETURN ON investment can be tough to calculate in the realm of information security. Usually, you can't do much more than point to some "soft" ROI, such as an improved security posture for the company or the marketing advantage of being able to...

Management ducks.(OPINION)
July 21, 2008... DUCKS ARE subpar employees who contribute little to an organization's productivity. My recent column "IT Full of Ducks?" generated many responses from readers reporting ducks in management positions. Ducks are indeed found at all levels of an...

Career watch.(Brief article)
July 21, 2008... 77% vs. 82% Percentage of female middle managers who aspire to be promoted to a senior management position compared with the number of male middle managers with a similar goal. Moreover, only 22% of women aspire to C-level positions, compared...

Zooming in.(EMPLOYMENT OUTLOOK)(Brief article)
July 21, 2008... Breaking down the BLS's numbers This page has touted the estimate from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics that "computer and mathematical occupations" will see 16% growth in employment between 2006 and 2016. The spring issue of the...

The CIO at Avanade Inc. in Seattle answers questions about communicating with the boss and making the most of a degree in infosec.(ASK A PREMIER 100 LEADER)
July 21, 2008... The division of the IT department I work in lost a few employees due to attrition last year, and rather than replace those people, management has distributed the workload to me and others. I'm now working 60-plus hours a week, including...

SharkTank: true tales of it life as told to Sharky.
July 21, 2008... Buh-bye! It's almost noon, and this pilot fish is leaving his dentist's office after a particularly traumatic root canal when his BlackBerry vibrates. "It's a message from a longtime friend, the VP to whom I reported before his discharge...

Who pays?(FRANKLY SPEAKING)
July 21, 2008... WHAT DO YOU DO when a network administrator goes bad? That's the question IT staffers for the city of San Francisco are facing this week. One of their own, a net admin named Terry Childs, was arrested for sabotaging the city government's new...

Who's anticompetitive?(EDITOR'S NOTE)(Editorial)
July 28, 2008... THE MORE I think about it, the more annoyed I get. There's just something fundamentally wrong when a U.S. company isn't allowed to compete in a market where the rest of the world is free to benefit from commercial engagement and...

Middle managers hate to deliver bad news.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
July 28, 2008... I found Don Tennant's July 14 Editor's Note, "Insight and Denial," interesting and accurate, but I'd like to make an observation. I used to work at a telephone company. It seemed to me that the workers were more than happy to ensure that...

The importance of camaraderie.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
July 28, 2008... I loved Don Tennant's Editor's Note "Taming the Beast" [June 30]. I couldn't agree more. For over five years, I have worked in a small rural health system, in total isolation as the only IT person on staff. I left a larger system with a...

The week ahead.(Brief article)(Calendar)
July 28, 2008... MONDAY: Microsoft researchers and those from academic institutions and government agencies gather for an annual meeting in Redmond, Wash., on technology R&D issues. MONDAY: The Usenix Security '08 symposium opens in San Jose with a two-day...

Brocade takes aim at Cisco with $3B foundry deal.(STORAGE)
July 28, 2008... STORAGE networking company Brocade Communications Systems Inc. last week agreed to acquire Foundry Networks Inc., a maker of enterprise LAN technology, for about $3 billion in cash and stock. The deal, expected to close in the fourth...

Intel slashes chip prices.(HARDWARE)(Brief article)
July 28, 2008... INTEL CORP last week dropped the price of seven processors by up to 31%. Intel said it was lowering the price of the 3.16-GHz Core 2 Duo E8500 by 31% to $183. Intel cut the prices of the Core 2 Duo 2.53-GHz E2700 chip and the 3-GHz E8400...

SAP opts to shutter TommorrowNow.(SERVICES)
July 28, 2008... SAP AG last week announced plans to close its Tomrrow Now Inc. subsidiary later this year, after failing to find a buyer for the support operation. Tommorrow-Now has been entangled in legal troubles since March 2007, when Oracle Corp....

Robert Soloway.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
July 28, 2008... A federal judge in Seattle sentenced Robert Soloway, known as the "spam king," to 47 months in prison for sending massive volumes of junk e-mail. Prosecutors say Soloway earned more than $700,000 in three years from the spamming activities.

Ovidiu-lonut Nicola-Roman.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
July 28, 2008... Ovidiu-lonut Nicola-Roman, 22, of Romania, pleaded guilty to a federal fraud charge for setting up fake Web sites to steal credit card data. He faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Microsoft Corp.(Short Takes)(Datallegro Inc.)(Brief article)
July 28, 2008... Microsoft Corp. has agreed to buy privately held Datallegro Inc., a maker of data warehouse appliances, for an undisclosed sum.

Editor's note.(Computerworld wins award)(Brief article)
July 28, 2008... Computerworld last week won 15 editorial awards, including 2008 Web Site of the Year, from the American Society of Business Publication Editors. Computerworld also won gold awards for Web features, government coverage, opinion columns,...

TSA leans on BI to save $100M over two years.(BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE)(Transportation Security Administration )(Brief article)
July 28, 2008... THE FEDERAL Transportation Security Administration (TSA) last week said it estimates that its use of business intelligence software to manage its workers will have saved it about $100 million over a two-year period ending this fall. ...

Pentagon looks to UPS, FedEx, others for IT advice.(GOVERNMENT IT)(Brief article)
July 28, 2008... THE U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is turning to a wide range of companies to find new ways to support the Department of Defense ad the branches of the U.S. armed services. Agency officials have met with of major...

Between the lines.(Cartoon)
July 28, 2008... IN SENTENCING YOU, THE COURT INTENDS to SEND A MESSAGE TO ALL ONLINE CRIMINALS. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I CAN REACH MORE PEOPLE YOUR HONOR.

Juniper Networks Inc.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Kevin Johnson)(Brief article)
July 28, 2008... Kevin Johnson resigned as president of Microsoft Corp.'s platforms and services division to join Juniper Networks Inc. as CEO.