Computerworld articles from March 2008

Computerworld archives from March 2008

Emasculating Windows.(EDITOR'S NOTE)(IT industry mergers and acquisitions)(Editorial)
March 3, 2008... IF YOU Google the phrase "Microsoft's worst nightmare," the range of hits you get is entertaining for its breadth. Various pundits have proclaimed that the software giant's very worst nightmare is everything from Linux, Google and Firefox to...

Affirming the IT labor disconnect.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
March 3, 2008... Don Tennant wrote that "the fact remains that the competition for IT jobs is a global one, that quality is king and that you're entitled to nothing. The disconnect lies in the failure of too many IT workers to recognize that" ["Entitled to...

IBM calls new mainframe 'most powerful' business system yet.(HARDWARE)
March 3, 2008... IBM TOUTS its new System z10 mainframe as a "commercial supercomputer" and "the world's most powerful enterprise computer," among other superlatives. And the company hopes the machine can gain some geek street cred with features such as a...

Subsidy cuts hurt, say CIOs.(HEALTH CARE)(health care subsidies)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... PROPOSED CUTS in health care subsidies are weighing heavily on IT executives who are scrambling to beef up hospital security and electronic medical records systems that could help reduce medical errors. About 43% of 307 health care...

Security firm discovers database with stolen FTP server credentials.(SECURITY)
March 3, 2008... AN ILLEGAL database discovered by IT security vendor Finjan Inc. provides yet another example of how easy it's becoming for almost anyone to get their hands on information that enables them to break into or infect systems supporting corporate...

Cisco Systems Inc.(Short Takes)(networking equipment seized by law enforcement authorities )(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... U.S. and Canadian law enforcement authorities have seized more than $78 million worth of counterfeit Cisco Systems Inc. networking equipment in an ongoing investigation into imports from China, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

Cisco.(Short Takes)(Ross Philo is appointed as executive vice president of Postal Service)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... Ross Philo, formerly Cisco's director of global energy solutions, has been named executive vice president and CIO of the U.S. Postal Service. He was previously CIO at Halliburton Energy Services.

Oracle Corp.(Short Takes)($8.5 billion acquisition of BEA Systems Inc)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... Oracle Corp.'s proposed $8.5 billion acquisition of BEA Systems Inc. has been approved by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. The deal still needs European Commission approval.

VMware Inc.(Short Takes)(flaw in its virtualization software)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... VMware Inc. acknowledged that a critical flaw in its virtualization software for Windows lets attackers escape the "guest" operating system and modify or add files to the underlying "host" software. The bug is in the shared-folder feature of...

EMC confirms hefty MozyPro price hike.(STORAGE)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... EMC CORP. last week disclosed that the price of its hosted MozyPro backup and recovery service for two servers was to increase substantially on March 1. EMC officials said all MozyPro users were informed over the past couple of weeks that the...

Real-world hospital makes virtual debut in Second Life.(WEB 2.0)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... PALOMAR Pomerado Health last week opened a brand-new, state-of-the-art hospital--in Second Life. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The opening of the virtual hospital follows the December 2007 ground-breaking for the health care provider's...

Between the lines.(News Digest)(Cartoon)
March 3, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Sun Microsystems Inc.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(acquired MySQL AB)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... Sun Microsystems Inc. completed its $1 billion acquisition of open-source database vendor MySQL AB, six weeks after announcing the deal.

Gartner Inc.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Hewlett-Packard Co bought $15 billion semiconductors)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... Market research firm Gartner Inc. reported that Hewlett-Packard Co. bought $15 billion worth of semiconductors last year, more than any other company worldwide.

One year ago.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(plans to buy Hyperion Solutions Corp.)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... Oracle Corp. said it planned to buy Hyperion Solutions Corp. for $3.3 billion, beginning a wave of acquisitions of business intelligence companies by top IT vendors.

Microsoft hit with another big fine.(Global Dispatches)(for failure to honor the provisions of a 2004 antitrust ruling)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... BRUSSELS -- The European Commission last week hit Microsoft Corp. with a fine of [euro]899 million ($1.4 billion U.S.) for what it called a continued failure to honor the provisions of a 2004 antitrust ruling. EC Competition Commissioner...

Wipro plans big China expansion.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... SHANGHAI -- Wipro Ltd. plans to increase its workforce in China to 2,000 over two years, Chief Operating Officer A.L. Rao said last week. The Bangalore, India-based company currently has about 200 workers in its Shanghai-based Chinese...

Briefly noted.(Global Dispatches)(Unisys Corp gets contract from Australian Department of Defence)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... The Australian Department of Defence has awarded Unisys Corp.'s Australian subsidiary a contract worth $240 million Australian ($225 million U.S.) to support servers, security systems and more than 100,000 desktop systems spread across 460...

Microsoft tries to steer a more agile development course: the software vendor has changed some of its internal software development processes in an effort to become less rigid and more responsive to user feedback. But is it working?
March 3, 2008... MICROSOFT CORP. may be the world's largest software vendor, but it would also top most tallies of crimes committed against good coding practices. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Microsoft rarely catches a break from its critics, whether it's...

IT deputized to help take a bite out of crime: more cities are using mobile and wireless technologies to enforce parking laws and aid in crime-fighting efforts.
March 3, 2008... IN AN INCREASING number of U.S. cities, ramping up crime-fighting efforts is no longer just a case of putting more feet on the street. They're also putting mobile and wireless technologies on the street--literally--in order to help deter...

Google vs. Salesforce.com?(On the Mark)(business software marketing)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... IT'S AN understatement to say that Salesforce.com Inc. has changed the nature of enterprise software forever. The San Francisco-based company's software-as-a-service model upended the notion that business software needs to run on premises and...

Hypermesh speeds streaming media.(On the Mark)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... If you enjoy streaming media from video sites like YouTube, Scott Ryan has a real treat for you: the "hypermesh." Ryan is the CEO of Atlanta-based start-up Asankya Inc., which will roll out its "packet-level multipathing" (PLMP) technology in...

Nicholas Carr: the guy IT loves to hate talks about fundamental shifts in technology, the vendor community and how computing gets done.(THE GRILL)(Interview)
March 3, 2008... Nicholas Carr, of "IT Doesn't Matter" fame, has written a new book, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google (W.W. Norton, 2008). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] What is this big switch you see coming? I think we're at the...

Vista, the sushi of operating systems.(OPINION)
March 3, 2008... ACCORDING TO an old industry joke, IBM was once so poor at marketing that if it had invented sushi, it would have called it "cold, dead, raw fish." This occurs to me because I've been thinking of Microsoft's Vista as the sushi of operating...

Crowdsourcing: are you ready to ask the world for answers?
March 3, 2008... When Constellation Energy Group Inc.'s commodities unit needed a new system recently, it considered the usual sources of labor: internal staffers, consultants, contractors, offshore programmers or a mix of all four. Instead, it turned to a less...

Slimmed-down servers: VistaPrint's second try at virtualization brings a hefty return on its investment.(SERVERS & DATA CENTERS)
March 3, 2008... IN LATE 2005, business was booming at VistaPrint Ltd., a graphic design and printing company. The firm was adding 100,000 customers each month--and growing at nearly 60% annually. But data center costs were growing exponentially too....

Mac attack! The sequel: Auto Warehousing Co.'s switch from PCs to Macs is proving more painful than expected.(MANAGEMENT)
March 3, 2008... HINDSIGHT, as they say, is always 20/20. Less than five months after going public with plans to immediately start replacing its Windows-based PCs with Macs, Auto Warehousing Co. was forced to push back the project by more than a month. That was...

Metrics as tools of persuasion: it's always a good idea to review what information your CIO is getting from your quarterly reports.(SECURITY MANAGER'S JOURNAL)(Column)
March 3, 2008... THE BEST way for my company's CIO to know details of our information security posture is for him to receive meaningful metrics in the quarterly IT scorecard. The information security metrics are my responsibility. Whenever I can, I like to...

Why decisions don't stick.(OPINION)(Column)
March 3, 2008... OVER THE YEARS, I've seen lots of policy decisions fail to be transformed into reality. One interesting facet of the failures is that there seems to be relatively little relationship between the quality of the policy and the likelihood that it...

You'll have to push them out the door.(Career Watch)(STAYING IN WORKFORCE)(Brief article)(Statistical data)
March 3, 2008... The Congressional Research Service has reported data from the U.S. Census Bureau that shows a larger percentage of older workers are staying in the workforce now compared with about 10 years ago. Moreover, in every category, the older workers...

Don't just say, 'gesundheit.' say, 'go home!'.(Career Watch)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... Forty percent of organizations say they discourage sick workers from coming to the office by educating employees on the importance of staying home when they're ill. But it's advice that's often ignored, resulting in a phenomenon known as...

Katherine Spencer Lee: the executive director of Robert Half Technology talks about rising salaries for entry-level IT positions.(Q & A)(Interview)(Survey)
March 3, 2008... What sorts of numbers have you seen? In the 2008 Robert Half Technology Salary Guide, the projected increase in average starting salaries for the 61 U.S. IT titles that we track is 5.3%. This compares to a projected increase of 2.8% last year....

56 days.(Career Watch)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... 56 DAYS Mean response when CIOs were asked, "How long does it take, on average, to fill a full-time staff-level position within your IT department?"

87 days.(Career Watch)(survey about full-time manager-level position in IT department)(Survey)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... 87 DAYS Mean response when executives were asked, "How long does it take, on average, to fill a full-time manager-level position within your IT department?" SOURCE: ROBERT HALF TECHNOLOGY, SEE THE FULL SURVEY RESULTS AT...

That'll stop 'em.(TRUE TALES OF IT LIFE)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... Auditors advise a bank's CIO to add an "authorization warning"--a message that that will show up on all PCs before log-on warning unauthorized users to stay away--and this IT pilot fish is tasked to whip it up. "I quickly threw it together and...

Old habits die hard.(TRUE TALES OF IT LIFE)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... User calls help desk pilot fish with a complaint: There are too many choices. "She has a default printer named 16 and she wanted to print to 66, which was also in her printer list," explains the pilot fish who takes the call. "She has recently...

Concierge service.(TRUE TALES OF IT LIFE)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... This pilot fish provides general support for users in two departments of a big organization and can handle most of them without trouble. Then there's the exception. "One user has what can only be described as extraordinary computer skills--for...

Aha!(TRUE TALES OF IT LIFE)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... User replaces a noisy old workhorse dot-matrix printer with a quieter ink-jet model--and soon calls this IT pilot fish with a complaint. "He wanted to know why it wouldn't print the carbon copy," fish says. "I replied, 'It can't spit the ink...

Internet sabotage.(FRANKLY SPEAKING)(Pakistan Telecommunications Corp.)
March 3, 2008... SABOTAGE. That's the right word for what Pakistan Telecom did to YouTube on the last Sunday in February. It was intended to be censorship--blocking Pakistanis from seeing a video that their government found offensive. But it resulted in all of...

Power play.(United States. Environmental Protection Agency)(Editorial)
March 10, 2008... IT'S ONLY a matter of time. If you aren't doing what you need to do to reduce the carbon footprint of your data center by using less electricity, the U.S. government is going to take regulatory action to do it for you. That's the...

We're not sitting on the bench, IT pros say.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
March 10, 2008... I have never read a Don Tennant column that made me as angry as "Entitled to Nothing" [Editor's Note, Feb. 4]. I am not sitting on the bench. I was let go from my last IT job five years ago, due to downsizing, and was released into the teeth of...

IT execs struggle to control wireless costs.(MOBILE TECHNOLOGY)
March 10, 2008... THE NEED to rein in cellular voice and data costs was cited as a top concern by several IT executives at the Mobile & Wireless Enterprise 2008 conference last week. For example, Jim Swartz, Sybase Inc.'s CIO, reluctantly recounted the time...

Microsoft's Yahoo bid still up in air.(INTERNET)(Brief article)
March 10, 2008... Microsoft Corp. still has its sights set on acquiring Yahoo Inc. But Yahoo continues to play hard to get, and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wouldn't comment last week on whether he plans to pursue a proxy fight to replace Yahoo's board. "We...

Meeting on proposed Open XML standard ends in acrimony.(SOFTWARE)(Brief article)
March 10, 2008... MEMBERS OF the ISO standards body approved about 1,100 changes to a proposed Office Open XML standard during a weeklong meeting in Geneva late last month. But most of the changes were voted on as a bloc, without any discussion. That left...

Robots deliver ROI to N.C. hospital.(HARDWARE)(North Carolina)(Brief article)
March 10, 2008... FIVE ROBOTS are tracking medical equipment, delivering drugs and significantly cutting costs at FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital. The Aethon Inc. robots use Tug automated courier and Homer RFID-based asset management technology. They are...

Intel Corp.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
March 10, 2008... Intel Corp. is set this week to defend itself against European Commission charges that it handed out "substantial rebates" to computer manufacturers for buying its x86 processors. Intel faces fines of up to $3.2 billion.

Apple Inc.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
March 10, 2008... Apple Inc. has licensed protocols from rival Microsoft Corp. to add Exchange support to the iPhone. Apple also added a software development kit for installing non-Apple applications on the device.

Microsoft and Visto Corp.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
March 10, 2008... Microsoft and Visto Corp. settled a two-year-old patent lawsuit a week before the case was to be heard in Texas. Visto charged that Microsoft used its patented technology for pushing e-mail to wireless devices in Windows Mobile. Terms weren't...

Diebold Inc.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
March 10, 2008... Diebold Inc. has rejected a hostile $3 billion bid by United Technology Corp. to buy the maker of electronic voting machines. Diebold Chairman John Lauer said the bid "significantly undervalues the company."

Microsoft shifts IE8 standards strategy.(INTERNET)(internet explorer)(Brief article)
March 10, 2008... IN AN about-face, Microsoft Corp. last week said its Internet Explorer 8 browser will default to a standards-compliant method of displaying Web pages, rather than to IE's existing proprietary mode. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The company...

Between the lines.(News Digest)(Cartoon)
March 10, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

VeriSign Inc.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
March 10, 2008... The number of registered Internet domain names topped 153 million at the end of last year, according to a report by VeriSign Inc., which operates the global.com and .net registries.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
March 10, 2008... Advanced Micro Devices Inc. demonstrated its first 45-nanometer processors at the CeBIT trade show. Rival Intel Corp. began shipping 45nm chips last fall.

Two years ago.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
March 10, 2008... Research In Motion Ltd. agreed to pay $612.5 million to NTP Inc. to settle a patent dispute that had threatened to shut down RIM's BlackBerry e-mail service.

Yahoo plans new R & D lab in India.(Global Dispatches)(research and development)(Brief article)
March 10, 2008... BANGALORE, INDIA -- Yahoo Inc. last week announced plans to open a new research and development laboratory here that will focus on long-term projects. The new R & D operation will be headed by Rajeev Rastogi, who was previously executive...

Baidu.com readies new IM service.(Global Dispatches)(instant-messaging service)(Brief article)
March 10, 2008... BEIJING -- Baidu.com Inc., creator of the most popular search engine in China, late last month announced plans to offer an instant-messaging service called Baidu Hi. Baidu, which is based here, said the service has been in development for...

Briefly noted.(Global Dispatches)(International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief article)
March 10, 2008... The European Commission last week gave the go-ahead to IBM's planned $745 million (U.S.) takeover of Malmo, Sweden-based Telelogic AB. The EC concluded that despite considerable overlap in the two companies' businesses, the deal would not lead...

Online video expands role in training, collaboration: some companies are taking advantage of technology that's banned from many corporate desktops.(WEB 2.0)(YouTube Inc.)
March 10, 2008... WHILE SOME companies are struggling to keep employees from watching online YouTube videos in the office, others are turning to video technology to improve internal training and collaboration, and to expand external marketing programs. One...

D.C.'s tax system won plaudits--but didn't stop alleged fraud scheme: prosecutors say rogue workers cashed fake refund checks for years, despite the 2002 rollout of a $100 million tax processing system.(GOVERNMENT)(District of Columbia Office of Tax and Revenue )
March 10, 2008... FOR MORE than a decade, employees in the District of Columbia's Office of Tax and Revenue allegedly cashed millions of dollars' worth of fake property-tax refunds, then gave the money to friends and family members or spent it on real estate,...

Keep traffic flowing.(On the Mark)(Brief article)
March 10, 2008... YOU KNOW IP-based information is everywhere, even at stoplights, since traffic engineers get real-time data on vehicle flow from loop detectors and video feeds from cameras. But does such data need to be secured? Casey Poten-zone, CIO at Uniloc...

Vertica DB tuned for analytics.(On the Mark)(Brief article)
March 10, 2008... At first, relational databases handled lots of transactional information, and so relational database creators developed systems that were "write-centric," making them efficient and fast at storing data, says Andy Palmer, co-founder of Vertica...

Vignette Web tools update gets personal.(On the Mark)(Brief article)
March 10, 2008... Companies whose Web sites are based on Portal, Content Management or other software from Austin-based Vignette Corp. have a slew of new tools to choose from. Kirsten Knipp, senior product marketing manager, claims that the new software will...

Window Snyder: Mozilla's security chief talks about building multilevel defenses, cooperating on multivendor fixes and finding a vegan restaurant on Google Maps.(THE GRILL)(Interview)
March 10, 2008... What is the biggest threat to users today? My big concern is still the individuals out there trying to lure users into malicious sites, whether they're posing as a bank or a site they're familiar with. These things are painful. Users really...

Seven rules for life in a start-up.(OPINION)(Editorial)
March 10, 2008... I'M ON my first start-up. My experience had been at companies that were making significant strategic changes and wanted to ensure that IT could support the new direction. They were mature companies, at one time successful but now feeling that...

What's your project worth? Figuring it out isn't easy. But you can't manage what you don't measure.
March 10, 2008... DURING THE Great Depression, a body of academic work emerged to help people value investments. Economists explained how the concepts of risk, cost of capital and cash flow could be applied to the stock market. But soon business people, and...

Different engines: researchers are building mechanical computers, with moving parts, that could someday work where silicon-based processors fear to tread.(FUTURE WATCH)
March 10, 2008... IN THE 19TH CENTURY, British mathematician Charles Babbage invented the "difference engine," a mechanical computer that had an enormously complex arrangement of levers, ratchets and gears. Had this prototypical chunk of steampunk machinery ever...

The art of cataloging art: the Getty uncorks a trove of art resources with an online searchable database.(NETWORKING)
March 10, 2008... THE J. PAUL GETTY TRUST publishes the Art & Architecture Thesaurus, a priceless resource that art historians use to research terms, descriptions and bibliographic citations related to art and architecture. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] But...

Security thoughts on consolidation: told to think about virtualization, our manager comes up with lots of questions about the security implications.(SECURITY MANAGER'S JOURNAL)
March 10, 2008... AS BUDGETS have tightened and staff sizes have decreased in the state government I work in, the drumbeat for consolidation has gotten louder. Until now, it has sounded to me like two parts politics and one part hype, so I've tried to ignore it....

Pulling the plug on a project.(OPINION)
March 10, 2008... FEW ORGANIZATIONS want to admit that a large project is failing. But some projects will never meet their deadlines or deliver the expected benefits. When the possibility of success is gone, these projects often must be euthanized for the health...

Rose-colored retirement.(Career Watch)(Brief article)
March 10, 2008... Active workers expect personal savings to be among their larghest sources of income in retirement. Those already retired are more likely to cite Social Security. WORKERS RETIREES ...

Digital books for IT pros.(Career Watch)(information technology)(Brief article)
March 10, 2008... Members of the Computing Technology Industry Association's IT Pro program (http://itpro.comptia.org) can now access the CompTIA TI Pro Reference Library, featuring digitized books from the Books24x7 ITPro collection. Other benefits of IT Pro...

Colleen Haviland: the director and founder of Ready to Hire explains how the online job board differentiates itself.(Q & A)(Interview)(Brief article)
March 10, 2008... What is Ready to Hire's business model? Ready to Hire is similar to other online job boards, but we have gone a step further. At Ready to Hire, a prescreening process is implemented that ensures that every potential hire we offer to our clients...

What CIOs want: skills, skills and skills.(Career Watch)(Brief article)
March 10, 2008... CIOs were asked: Of the following staffing issues within the IT department, which do you consider to be your greatest challenge as a CIO? Providing staffers with adequate professional development resources 23% to keep skills current:...

Dude, where's my van?(TRUE TALES OF IT LIFE)(Brief article)
March 10, 2008... This IT shop uses a dull, brownish van to deliver new equipment to remote sites. "We finished one job early, and rather than go straight back to the office, we sat outside with a cup of coffee, and then we spotted a car wash," says a pilot fish...

But that was back before lunch.(TRUE TALES OF IT LIFE)(Brief article)
March 10, 2008... This sysadmin pilot fish is busy reimaging some laptops when the boss comes in with a question: "I got an e-mail from PayPal saying I sent money to this person, but I don't even know who this person is. There was a link in the e-mail to log...

Unclear on the concept.(TRUE TALES OF IT LIFE)(Brief article)
March 10, 2008... It's the mid-1970s, and this student pilot fish has a part-time job picking up and delivering punch cards for a computer service company. "One day, I picked up a set of cards from a customer who desired additional info to be put on their...

Should that be three separate tickets?(TRUE TALES OF IT LIFE)
March 10, 2008... Support pilot fish receives a trouble ticket from a user with a straightforward request: "We need to open some very old files that were created in Lotus 1, 2 and 3." * Sharky has a three-step plan for you: 1) Write down your true tale of...

See the future.(FRANKLY SPEAKING)
March 10, 2008... I CAN SEE THE FUTURE. You can too. Just look at the numbers released this month by the Computing Research Association. CRA's annual Taulbee Survey tracks the number of U.S. college students with computer science degrees. It also tracks the...

Hear Dell out.(EDITOR'S NOTE)
March 17, 2008... I'M GOING to tell you something, and you're probably going to laugh, but try to contain yourself. Ready? Dell is getting into the IT-as-a-service business. So much for containing yourself. I'll wait till you're composed. You might think...

Pursuing greener technology, ignoring the hype.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
March 17, 2008... After reading Don Tennant's "Green Pall" column [Editor's Note, Feb. 11], I felt compelled to reply for the sake of my profession. I share Tennant's surprise that green is so low on the priority list of my peers. Unfortunately, this seems to...

Gates claims cap on H-1B visas puts U.S. high-tech jobs at risk.(WORKFORCE)(Bill Gates)
March 17, 2008... WHEN BILL GATES testified last Wednesday at a congressional hearing on U.S. competitiveness, it was mostly standard fare. The Microsoft Corp. chairman reiterated his criticism of the government's annual H-1B visa cap and also addressed other...

Cisco to patch IOS software twice a year.(NETWORKING)(Internetworking Operating System )(Brief article)
March 17, 2008... Cisco Systems Inc. last week said it's adopting a regular schedule for releasing security bulletins and fixes for the software that powers its flagship routers and switches, with the first set due on March 26. Cisco's move is similar to...

Microsoft pins ERP hopes on Dynamics usability work.(SOFTWARE)(enterprise resource planning)
March 17, 2008... MICROSOFT CORP. hopes its efforts to improve the usability of its Dynamics ERP software can give it a boost in taking on more-established rivals like SAP AG and Oracle Corp. Jakob Nielsen, principal user experience manager for Dynamics at...

Retailer charges IBM with fraud.(LEGAL ISSUES)(International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief article)
March 17, 2008... RETAILER Harry and David Holdings Co. has filed a $6 million fraud and breach-of-contract lawsuit charging that IBM sold it e-commerce software that violated patents held by NCR Corp. and Charles Hill & Associates Inc., according to court...