Computerworld articles from March 2005

Computerworld archives from March 2005

Data snafus spur IT action.(disk backups)
March 7, 2005... Tape Mishap Prompts Calls for Disk Backups Bank of America Corp. disclosed last week that it lost digital tapes containing the credit card account records of 1.2 million federal employees--including 60 U.S. senators. Users and analysts said...

Data snafus spur IT action.(safety against identity theft and phishing)
March 7, 2005... Companies Scramble to Bolster Online Security Growing fears of identity theft and e-mail phishing scams, exacerbated by the recent data leaks at ChoicePoint Inc. and Bank of America Corp., are pushing companies to adopt new IT security...

The view[s] ahead: a panel of IT visionaries and provocateurs polish up their crystal balls and look to the future.(SPECIAL REPORT)(Panel Discussion)
March 7, 2005... INTRODUCTION What does the future hold for IT? We thought the best way to answer that question was to ask the experts, so we sought out the views of a baker's dozen of IT visionaries that includes university professors, CIOs, IT...

Reaching out: as their options multiply, companies will increasingly look beyond the boundaries of their own organizations to procure IT.(THE FUTURE OF IT)(Panel Discussion)
March 7, 2005... A NUMBER OF EXISTING trends will accelerate and converge to fundamentally change the way companies procure IT, in essence pushing much of IT out the door. The Computerworld panelists say open-source software will proliferate--but not...

The vendor scene: giants in jeopardy: it would be foolhardy to underestimate the staying power of companies like Microsoft, but smaller, more agile players pose a serious threat.(THE FUTURE OF IT)(Panel Discussion)
March 7, 2005... MICROSOFT'S GLORY DAYS are, if not behind it, at least numbered, according to most of the Computerworld panelists. And that probably goes for the other goliaths of IT as well. But even though our seers predict a less-prominent position for the...

The dark side: the future may hold bad software, ever-more-dangerous security threats and a host of other causes for concern, say our panelists.(THE FUTURE OF IT)(Panel Discussion)
March 7, 2005... OUR PANEL finds plenty to worry about, from the sometimes deplorable quality of commercial software to cyber-crimes and an erosion of U.S. leadership in IT. Leading the list of concerns--perhaps because it's so troublesome today--is the...

Running IT operations like a business not so easy, execs say: pioneers cite cultural issues, learning curves.(NEWS)
March 7, 2005... Any small-business owner will tell you that starting and running a business takes a massive amount of work. Some IT executives who are trying to run their operations like a business are discovering the same thing. "We started a chargeback...

SEC probes execs from ChoicePoint.(AT DEADLINE)
March 7, 2005... ChoicePoint Inc. said two of its executives are being investigated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for possible stock-trading irregularities. The probe of trades by CEO Derek Smith and Douglas Curling, president and chief...

SCO to restate 2004 results.(AT DEADLINE)(SCO Group Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... The SCO Group Inc. said it will restate financial results for the first three quarters of its 2004 fiscal year because of accounting errors. The announcement comes as SCO fights to prevent a Nasdaq delisting. In December, SCO reported a net...

CA issues software security warning.(AT DEADLINE)(Computer Associates International Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Computer Associates International Inc. and security firms are warning about a number of serious security holes in software that manages CA product licenses. The License and Client Server is shipped with almost every piece of software CA sells....

DOJ renews deal for WordPerfect.(Department of Justice gets license for WordPerfect Office 12 suite)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... The U.S. Department of Justice has renewed a multiyear, 50,000-seat deal to license the WordPerfect Office 12 suite from Ottawa-based Corel Corp. The upgrade agreement extends a contract signed in 1999. The value of the deal wasn't released,...

Wells Fargo Web-enables ATMs: finishes five-year migration from OS/2 to Windows on all 6,200 of its machines.(NEWS)
March 7, 2005... WELLS Fargo & Co. last week said it has completed a five-year project to Web-enable its 6,200 ATMs in 23 states. The Windows-based infrastructure is designed to allow Wells Fargo to update its entire network remotely when it needs to do things...

Share looks back at 50 years, continues to evolve.(NEWS)
March 7, 2005... AT THE SHARE user group's conference here last week, a chunk of big-iron history was put on display as part of the group's 50th anniversary celebration. Display cases held items such as ancient tape spools and punch cards, prompting one...

Project at World Trade Center site puts advanced design tools to test: Freedom Tower architects rely on 3-D CAD, online collaboration apps.(NEWS)(Freedom Tower )
March 7, 2005... The 1,776-foot-tall Freedom Tower being built on the World Trade Center site in New York is pushing the boundaries of architectural engineering because of its height and complex design. It's also a major test case for a new generation of design...

Software eases complex design.(The Freedom Tower)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... THE FREEDOM TOWER is a complex project from an architectural standpoint, because the basic design calls for the building to twist, or torque, by 40 degrees as it rises from the ground to the 1,500-foot level, according to officials at Skidmore,...

Firefox, Mozilla warnings issued.(BRIEFS)
March 7, 2005... Several security vulnerabilities in the Firefox Web browser and the Mozilla Suite of software applications have put users of the open-source products at risk of hacker attacks, the Mozilla Foundation said. Firefox Version 1.0.1 fixes 17...

NIST releases Fed IT guidelines.(National Institute of Standards and Technology issues standards for federal information systems)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... The National Institute of Standards and Technology released its final version of recommended security controls for federal information systems. The new guidelines will be the basis for a proposal to be made later this year by NIST for the...

SAP realigns management team.(BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... SAP AG said it is realigning the responsibilities of its management team to simplify its command structure. The reorganization comes as SAP positions itself to better compete with Oracle Corp., which recently acquired People-Soft Inc. The...

IBM updates Informix DBMS.(BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... IBM unveiled an upgrade to its Informix database management system and plans to offer a new Express edition aimed at smaller businesses by the middle of the year. Informix Dynamic Server Version 10 includes performance, administration and...

Robo admin may not appear soon ...(ON THE MARK)
March 7, 2005... ... but the need for IT automation technology is immediate. What with Framingham, Mass.-based market research firm IDC estimating that there are at least 20 million servers and 39 million network routers installed worldwide, you can't blame...

IT Leaders put emphasis on simplifying systems: Premier 100 attendees streamline technology installations to cut costs, lighten admin load.(NEWS PREMIER 100)
March 7, 2005... MAKE IT SIMPLE. That concept is on the minds of many of the IT managers who plan to attend Computerworld's sixth annual Premier 100 IT Leaders Conference, which starts today in Scottsdale, Ariz. In a survey of Premier 100 honorees and other...

More Explorer 7 details emerge.(BRIEFS)(Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... More details about Internet Explorer 7 are trickling from Microsoft Corp. The IE team wrote on its weblog that the browser will be available for "Windows XP SP2 and later," which includes the forthcoming Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 and...

IBM services unit targets small firms.(BRIEFS)(IBM Global Services )(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... In an effort to drive more services business through partners, IBM Global Services launched several initiatives aimed at better targeting small and midsize businesses. IBM estimated that it's spending $300 million on the effort, which includes...

3Com cuts 220 jobs worldwide.(BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... 3Com Corp. cut about 11% of its workforce late last month, the company said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. According to the Feb. 25 filing, 3Com laid off 220 employees. The company cut 100 jobs in the U.S., 90 in...

Intel plans to drop Pentium moniker.(BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Intel Corp.'s Pentium 4 brand, its flagship desktop processor since 2000, will be retired with the launch of the company's first dual-core desktop processor, it announced at the Spring Intel Developer Forum. The company also outlined features...

Suppliers eye RFID data, search for potential uses: early adopters say information could drive changes in internal operations.(NEWS)
March 7, 2005... MORE THAN 100 suppliers have started shipping RFID-tagged pallets and cases to Wal-Mart Stores Inc., CIO Linda Dillman said at the RFID World 2005 conference here last week. The suppliers are able to access data about their shipments on...

SAP buys Retek to build retail business.(NEWS)
March 7, 2005... Looking to boost what has been perceived as an underwhelming presence in the retail market, SAP AG last week gobbled up software maker Retek Inc. SAP said it has agreed to pay $496 million for Minneapolis-based Retek, a developer of retail...

EDS tapped for $7.7b U.K. military IT upgrade.(GLOBAL DISPATCHES)(Electronic Data Systems Corp. )(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... LONDON THE U.K. MINISTRY OF DEFENCE last week selected a consortium of vendors led by Electronic Data Systems Corp. for the first stage of what's expected to be a 10-year, [pounds sterling]4 billion ($7.7 billion U.S.) IT modernization...

IT skills shortage hits aussie agencies.(GLOBAL DISPATCHES)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... SYDNEY SEVERAL AUSTRALIAN government IT projects face delays and escalating costs because of a high-level skills shortage at federal agencies. Centrelink, a human services agency, and the Health Insurance Commission are struggling to...

Group wants to create African telecom agency.(GLOBAL DISPATCHES)(Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... LUSAKA, ZAMBIA THE COMMONWEALTH Telecommunications Organisation, a London-based international development agency, last month called for the creation of a single authority to harmonize telecommunications regulations and licensing policies...

Thierry Breton.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Thierry Breton resigned as chairman and CEO of France Telecom SA late last month to become the French government's minister of finance. The company's board named Didier Lombard, who had been in charge of technology and partnerships, to replace...

Yamaha Motor Europe NV.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Yamaha Motor Europe NV in Amsterdam is using software from SPSS Inc. in Chicago to analyze responses to customer surveys, SPSS announced last week. The vendor added that Yamaha plans to use the feedback to improve the designs of its...

Financiera de Desarrollo Territorial.(Briefly Noted)(Colombian government's finance agency)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Financiera de Desarrollo Territorial, the Colombian government's finance agency, has implemented Web-based business process automation software from Verity Inc., the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company said last week. The Bogota-based finance...

EDS pushing massive IT retraining effort: 20,000 IT workers to get training in Java, .Net, J2EE.(NEWS)
March 7, 2005... Electronic Data Systems Corp. has embarked on a mammoth retraining program aimed at providing 20,000 of its 87,000 technical workers with updated business and technology skills by the end of this year. The effort began about a year ago,...

Health data exchanges get a boost from IT: hospitals, Chicago health agency plan rollouts for online information sharing.(New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System)(Chicago Department of Public Health)
March 7, 2005... TWO LARGE HEALTH care organizations are launching projects to build automated systems for exchanging data, a key step in the Bush administration's plan for developing a national health IT infrastructure. New York-Presbyterian Healthcare...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
March 7, 2005... A COLUMN ABOUT the Federal Communications Commission in last week's issue ("FCC: Mission Accomplished") opened with a quote taken from the agency's Web site that was erroneously characterized as Congress' original charge to the FCC in 1934. The...

i2 appoints head, inspires user hopes for a rebound: plan to boost supply chain software maker's consulting group gets approval.(NEWS)(Michael McGrath CEO of i2 Technologies Inc.)
March 7, 2005... USERS OF i2 Technologies Inc.'s applications last week said they are hopeful that the installation of a new CEO portends a brighter future for the troubled maker of supply chain software. The Dallas-based company last week appointed one of...

New i2 CEO to resize, refocus troubled firm: McGrath will refocus offerings, cut up to 400 jobs.(Q&A)(Michael McGrath president of i2 Technologies Inc.)(Interview)
March 7, 2005... After a seven-month search, ailing supply chain software manufacturer i2 Technologies Inc. named board member Michael McGrath president and CEO. He replaces i2 co-founder Sanjiv Sidhu, who will remain there as chairman. McGrath, a member...

IBM, Lenovo executives outline plans.(Yang Yuanqing of Lenovo Group Ltd. and Stephen Ward)
March 7, 2005... Yang Yuanqing, president and CEO of Lenovo Group Ltd., and Stephen Ward, general manager of IBM's Personal Systems Group, face an interesting few months. The executives must manage the creation of what Ward calls the "first-ever Chinese company...

Here to stay.(Apple Computers Inc. and Microsoft Corp.)(Column)
March 7, 2005... NEARLY A DECADE AGO, just a few months after Microsoft shipped Windows 95, I asked Bill Gates if it was a conscious decision in the development of that product to give Windows more of a Mac look and feel. Of course I knew he'd say it wasn't,...

Getting back the HP way.(Column)
March 7, 2005... LIKE MANY people who remember Hewlett-Packard in its glory days, I offered a quiet cheer when the company's board of directors showed Carly Fiorina the door early last month. It was an overdue recognition that her tenure as CEO, while not...

High availability: the IT imperative.(SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION)(Advertisement)
March 7, 2005... Enhancing HP ProLiant servers with innovative technologies Organizations are under growing pressure to support non-stop business operations without increasing the IT budget. Given their position at the center of the IT infrastructure,...

High-hanging fruits worth the risk.(chief information officers)(Column)
March 7, 2005... IF THERE'S A common thread running through IT leadership today, it's the avoidance of risk. This attitude just reinforces Nicholas Carr's argument in his book Does IT Matter? that all of information technology is a commodity. Where...

Fill that jump bag.(Letter to the Editor)
March 7, 2005... TWO MORE THINGS to put in a "jump bag" for an emergency response to a network attack: a camera, and tape or sticky labels for sealing evidence ["Fill Your Jump Bag," QuickLink 51714]. Gary Hinson CEO, IsecT Ltd., London

Counseling Carly.(Letter to the Editor)
March 7, 2005... I'VE NOW SEEN two articles in Computerworld attributing the ouster of Carly Florina from Hewlett-Packard to her inability--or unwillingness--to set HP on a course to follow IBM's model. Who said she should? This sounds like orthodoxy to me. I...

Managing mergers.(Letter to the Editor)
March 7, 2005... WITH REGARD to the article "Mechanics of a Merger" [QuickLink 52257], one thing really irks me. That is CIO Tyler Best's action of arbitrarily firing the entire IT departments of both companies that merged to form ANC Rental Corp. It seems that...

Together on screen: many organizations are discovering that composite interfaces can be a good option when full-blown EAI isn't needed.(TECHNOLOGY)
March 7, 2005... THE UNITED WAY of Metropolitan Atlanta recently faced an integration problem that's all too familiar to IT managers. The charity, which provides a variety of services to over 4 million children and adults, needed to provide fund-raising...

Wavelets.(wavelet algorithms enhance photographic resolution)
March 7, 2005... DEFINITION Wavelets are mathematical functions that let us divide data into different frequency components and then study each component with a resolution appropriate for its overall scale. Wavelets are used in computer imaging, animation,...

Finding my way in the bureaucracy: our security manager pushes on with contingency planning, but a visit with the CISO ends with a political faux pas.(SECURITY MANAGER'S JOURNAL)(chief information security officer)(Column)
March 7, 2005... AFTER THE ADVENTURE that I described in my Feb. 14 column, "Disaster Recovery Planned on the Fly" [QuickLink 52227], I set about creating a real contingency plan. I've made some progress, but along the way, I've gotten a good taste of what...

Phishing lures up.(SECURITY LOG)(Anti-Phishing Working Group report)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... The number of phishing e-mails grew by 42% last month, according to the latest report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). In January, 12,845 completely new phishing e-mails were reported to the APWG. The APWG statistics also reveal...

Handy identity.(SECURITY LOG)(Palm Vein Identification System )(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Fujitsu Computer Systems Corp. is launching what it claims is the world's first bio-metric palm scanner. The Palm Vein Identification System verifies identity by scanning the pattern of veins in a person's hand, which show up clearly when...

USB detective.(SECURITY LOG)(USB Auditor)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Tel Aviv-based Safend Ltd. has announced the availability of auditing software that identifies all Universal Serial Bus products connected to PCs enterprisewide. USB Auditor, available as a free download for a limited time from Safend's Web...

RippleTech unveils Sarb-Ox software.(BRIEFS)(LogCaster for Sarbanes-Oxley)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... RippleTech Inc., a Conshohocken, Pa.-based provider of security, compliance and systems management software, has introduced LogCaster for Sarbanes-Oxley, an event-log consolidation system designed to help corporate executives view their...

CA announces doc management apps.(BRIEFS)(Computer Associates International Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Computer Associates International Inc. announced three new Unicenter software products for storing, viewing, printing and distributing documents. All three--Unicenter CA-Spool Print Management r11, Unicenter CA-View r11 and Unicenter CA-Deliver...

Corel releases tech graphics Suite.(BRIEFS)(Corel Designer Technical Suite 12)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Ottawa-based Corel Corp. has unveiled Corel Designer Technical Suite 12 for technical graphics professionals. New and enhanced features include a Projected Drawing Mode and Dynamic Guides to enable users to create drawings faster and more...

Moving toward self-awareness.(TECHNOLOGY)(network security)(Column)
March 7, 2005... IN THE BEGINNING, there was management and security. By today's standards, they were relatively unsophisticated--the management of a host system and the security of its users. Then came the network. It had to be monitored and controlled to...

Bonding over bugs: how to use defects to bring developers and testers closer together.(IT MENTOR)
March 7, 2005... IT'S SAFE TO SAY that developers and testers are guided by different motives, pressures and perspectives. Developers are motivated to complete code quickly and accurately and move on to the next problem. Testers are required to find and report...

ThinkTank: brain food for IT executives.(MANAGEMENT)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Get Back in Touch With Your Inner Geek Are you getting a little out of touch with new technologies? "It's too easy [for CIOs] to lose direct contact with technology, and the judgment of internal and external experts is not always...

Best bits.(MANAGEMENT)(Innovating IT: Transforming IT From Cost Crunchers to Growth Drivers)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 7, 2005... The most useful parts of recent business and IT management books. THE BOOK: Innovating IT: Transforming IT From Cost Crunchers to Growth Drivers, by Lior Arussy (Wiley Publishing Inc., 2005). First, a plea to book authors: Can we...

Things to ponder.(briefs)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Will instant messaging surpass e-mail as the preferred form of business communication? Sage Research Inc. in Natick, Mass., asked 96 IT decision-makers in U.S. businesses, and 41% of the respondents said it'll never happen. But 12% said it will...

The IT economy.(survey)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Vendor consolidation is certainly one of the megatrends of the IT economy today. So how do CIOs feel about that? Merrill Lynch & Co. recently asked 100 CIOs, and 51% of the respondents said they're against vendor mergers, 37% said they support...

Buying intentions.(MANAGEMENT)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... IDC researchers say their index of business IT demand (below) shows that user spending expectations have dipped yet again, as buyers' attitudes simply become more realistic. [GRAPHIC OMITTED] Index of Business IT Demand, 2004-2005 ...

Euro RSCG promotes Tanner.(EXEC TRACK)(Euro RSCG Worldwide new CIO John Tanner)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Euro RSCG Worldwide, a global communications agency based in New York, announced the appointment of JOHN TANNER as CIO. He will report to Chief Financial Officer Andre Pinto. Tanner had been Euro's director of IT infrastructure since 2001....

Carroll picked as Ohio's interim CIO.(EXEC TRACK)(Mary F. Carroll new chief information officer of Ohio's state Office of Information Technology)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Ohio Gov. Bob Taft announced that MARY F. CARROLL will serve as the interim state CIO. The Cabinet-level position oversees the state's Office of Information Technology. Carroll previously served as deputy state CIO for the investment and...

Bostick to head IT at Conseco.(EXEC TRACK)(Russell M. Bostick)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Conseco Inc., an insurance company in Carmel, Ind., has named RUSSELL M. BOSTICK executive vice president and CIO. Bostick joins Conseco from Chase Insurance, an arm of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., where he was chief technology officer. He has also...

CSS Industries names Morris CIO.(EXEC TRACK)
March 7, 2005... RICHARD L. MORRIS has joined CSS Industries Inc., a consumer products company in Philadelphia, as vice president and CIO. Morris reports to CEO David J.M. Erskine. Previously, Morris was managing director at Xernon Technology Solutions, and he...

Are you a scary boss?(MANAGEMENT)(Column)
March 7, 2005... I'LL NEVER FORGET the first time I learned that one of my subordinates was afraid of me. A talented young man, probably 26, had just left my office after explaining to me how happy he was with his current project. My assistant came in and...

E-health, stat!(FRANKLY SPEAKING)(electronic health records)(Column)
March 7, 2005... SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: Ray Noorda probably has Alzheimer's. I discounted rumors to that effect when I wrote my column on Noorda's lawsuit to regain control of The Canopy Group, the investment company he founded [QuickLink 52364]. But in a...

Who loves you, baby?(SHARK TANK)
March 7, 2005... This pilot fish is interviewing job candidates, and one of his favorite questions for understanding how people handle crisis situations is, "Tell me about your worst day." But when he asks one job seeker, the response is, "Three words: I love...

Users push Microsoft to extend VB6 support: Visual Basic developers sign online petition; some users cite complexity of migrating apps.
March 14, 2005... Hundreds of users with heavy investments in Visual Basic 6 code last week urged Microsoft Corp. to reconsider its 3-year-old decision to end mainstream support for the development environment at the end of the month. More than 1,300 IT...

HP struggles with second SAP project: hasty rollout plan sets back spare-parts unit.($110 million ERP consolidation project)
March 14, 2005... After suffering a major black eye last summer from a poorly executed migration to SAP AG's ERP software in its server division, Hewlett-Packard Co. is working to turn around another problematic SAP installation whose schedule has been stretched...

IT strives for credibility with corporate execs: efforts to stabilize systems, rein in tech costs are crucial to business alignment.(Premier 100 IT Leaders Conference)
March 14, 2005... INFORMATION technology organizations that want a bigger role in enabling new business initiatives first need to ensure that their own operations are stable and cost-efficient, according to speakers and other attendees at Computerworld's Premier...

CIOs need tech savvy and business 'street smarts'.(NEWS PREMIER 100)( Premier 100 conference )
March 14, 2005... Attendees at the Premier 100 conference said IT executives whose companies face increasing competitive pressures and the continuing need to modernize systems had better be prepared to do some selling--internally, that is. For many CIOs and...

Global IT managers push to build 'blended culture'.(NEWS PREMIER 100)(Panel Discussion)
March 14, 2005... To succeed in globalizing IT, companies must build a workforce that understands and can adapt to the business needs and cultural expectations of co-workers no matter where they're located, according to IT executives from several large companies...

McKesson's IT roads lead to Iowa.(Chery Smith chief information officer discusses his company's strategy)(Interview)
March 14, 2005... One of the speakers at last week's Premier 100 conference was CHERYL SMITH. CIO at McKesson Corp. San Francisco-based McKesson has cut the number of its data centers from 11 to two--a main facility in Iowa and a secondary site in California....

Government extends H-1B visa eligibility.(AT DEADLINE)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services bureau this week said the additional 20,000 H-1B visas to be issued this spring will be available to all qualified applicants--not just those holding advanced degrees from U.S. universities. The...

Microsoft buys Groove Networks.(AT DEADLINE)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Microsoft Corp. has agreed to buy Groove Networks Inc., maker of collaboration software, for an undisclosed sum. Groove founder Ray Ozzie, who created Lotus Notes software, will join Microsoft and report to Chairman and Chief Architect Bill...

Novell ships server for Linux, NetWare.(AT DEADLINE)( Open Enterprise Server)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Novell Inc. has announced availability of its Open Enterprise Server, which combines NetWare and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server to deliver file, print, directory, management, collaboration and application services. Novell also unveiled its...

Intel boosts Q1 revenue projections.(AT DEADLINE)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Intel Corp. said it expects quarterly revenue to be on the high end of its January estimate, totaling $9.2 billion to $9.4 billion for the first quarter of its fiscal year, which ends April 2. Officials said the revised forecast comes from...

Get into the swing of configuration ...(ON THE MARK)(configuration management database)
March 14, 2005... ... management to keep IT in sync with business needs. Weaving IT with business operations is essential, critical, vital and mightily important to your career prospects. That's not a new notion, but it was a constant refrain heard at...

Identity-driven model rivals CMDBs ...(configuration management database )(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... ... as a path to ITIL's alignment goals. Alan Nugent, chief technology officer at Novell Inc., puts his company's "identity-driven model" of IT asset management squarely in line with the processes outlined in ITIL publications. "The model...

Online service seeks to reduce ...(ON THE MARK)(WebExit from Nobscot Corp. helps companies to interview departing employees)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... ... head count churn by pinpointing why workers quit. WebExit is an exit-interview service designed for large companies--many of which "find it nearly impossible to interview departing employees and then compile and track the data," claims Beth...

IBM/Lenovo deal gets U.S. approval.(BRIEFS)(Lenovo Group Ltd.)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... IBM has received final U.S. government approval to sell its PC division to Chinese PC vendor Lenovo Group Ltd. The Federal Trade Commission in January said the $1.75 billion acquisition complies with antitrust laws. Last week, the U.S....

AT & T, Northwest Bank agree to pact.(BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... AT & T Corp. has won a multi-million-dollar, three-year contract from Northwest Savings Bank to deploy a wide-area networking system that integrates the bank's 152 full-service branches in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland and New York. AT & T aims...