Computerworld articles from May 2008

Computerworld archives from May 2008

Campus whispers.(EDITOR'S NOTE)(Editorial)
May 5, 2008... THIS IS coming to you from St. Louis, where I participated in the inaugural Gateway to Innovation conference organized by several local IT associations. With academia well represented at the event, some of the loudest buzz at the conference...

Responses to: paying breach bill may not buy Hannaford full data protection.(ONLINE CHATTER)
May 5, 2008... April 28, 2008 The Hannaford incident is troubling in itself, but even more troubling is how the company and the industry relate to the event. Let's take a step back and take a more critical view of this incident. What exactly...

Responses to: after web defacement, university warns of data breach.(ONLINE CHATTER)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... April 25, 2008 Why in the world would a university need a student's Social Security number unless he is on the payroll? * Submitted by: Alex Alex asks why a university needs a student's SSN. The answer is simply that the SSN is...

SAP curbs spending on new hosted ERP apps.(ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS)(enterprise resource planning)
May 5, 2008... SAP AG last week put the brakes on the rollout of its Business ByDesign hosted ERP offering for small businesses, after reporting that first-quarter profits slid by 22% compared with profits a year earlier. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The...

Corporate data at risk in border laptop searches.(SECURITY)(Association of Corporate Travel Executives)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... THE ASSOCIATION of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE) has warned its members to limit the proprietary business information stored on laptops and other devices they carry across U.S. borders. The warning was issued after a federal appeals...

IT execs not sold on Wi-Fi upgrade.(MOBILE & WIRELESS)(Cisco Systems Inc.)
May 5, 2008... CISCO SYSTEMS INC. and other networking vendors began rolling out higher-speed Wi-Fi access points and related hardware based on the 802.11n draft specification in earnest during this year's first quarter. But at the Interop 2008 trade...

Sun Microsystems Inc.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Sun Microsystems Inc. said it plans to cut up to 2,500 jobs--or 7% of its workforce--over the next three months. The announcement came after the firm reported a $34 million third-quarter loss on declining sales. Sun blamed a lagging U.S....

Microsoft Corp.(Short Takes)(VMware Inc.)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Microsoft Corp. has released a beta version of technology that will allow its systems management software to manage non-Windows environments, including Linux and Unix servers along with VM-ware Inc.'s ESX Server virtualization software.

SAP AG.(Short Takes)(Research In Motion Ltd.)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... SAP AG and Research In Motion Ltd. have signed a joint development pact to let users access SAP's ERP software through RIM's BlackBerry. SAP's CRM tool will run on the device in a few months.

Intel Corp.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Intel Corp. has ramped up pre-release production of its Diamondville chip for small laptops and desktops because demand has been higher than anticipated. The chip is slated to be shipped to computer makers in June.

Data corruption problems delay XP update's rollout.(SOFTWARE)(Microsoft Corp.)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... MICROSOFT CORP. last week delayed the rollout of Windows XP Service Pack 3 because the operating system update can corrupt or delete data in the software vendor's retail store management application. Microsoft also suspended automatic...

Botnet infiltrated, but PCs not cleaned up.(SECURITY)(personal computers)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... SECURITY researchers at 3Com Corp. said last week that they had infiltrated one of the world's biggest botnets and could have snatched control of compromised PCs back from the hackers who set it up. But citing potential liability issues,...

Between the lines.(News Digest)(Cartoon)
May 5, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

3Com Corp.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(appointment of Robert Mao)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... 3Com Corp. tapped board member Robert Mao to take over as CEO. Mao will be based in China as part of 3Com's increasing focus on its product operations there.

Oracle Corp.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(BEA Systems Inc.)(European Union. European Commission)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Oracle Corp. completed its $8.5 billion acquisition of BEA Systems Inc. after the European Commission gave the deal its approval.

40 years ago.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Dartmouth College)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Dartmouth College's Kiewit Computation Center set what it believed was a world record by connecting 113 active users to a General Electric Co. time-sharing system with no perceived degradation in response time.

Irish data theft affects 31,500.(Global Dispatches)(Bank of Ireland Group)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... DUBLIN -- The Bank of Ireland last week admitted that the unencrypted personal details of 31,500 customers--three times as many as it first disclosed--went missing with the theft of four laptops last year. Early last month, the bank said...

Report hits U.K. Web strategies.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... LONDON -- The British government does not know how many Web sites it operates and whether the ones it does have help residents, according to a report by the parliament's Committee of Public Accounts. The report estimates that government...

Briefly noted.(Global Dispatches)(Fast Search and Transfer ASA)(Microsoft Corp.)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Microsoft Corp. has completed its $1.2 billion (U.S.) purchase of Oslo-based Fast Search & Transfer ASA. The maker of search technology will become a Microsoft subsidiary headed by John Markus, who was its CEO prior to the acquisition. ...

SaaS benefits starting to outweigh risks: IT execs are looking for help managing systems as workers become scarce and projects linger on.(NEWS ANALYSIS)(software as a service)
May 5, 2008... MANAGERS ARE looking more closely at hosted business applications as the number of unfinished IT projects grows, skilled workers become increasingly scarce, and upgrade and maintenance costs skyrocket. Many large companies had long avoided...

New mashup tools look to penetrate IT: vendors add links to Excel, and the ability to support SOAs.(NEWS ANALYSIS)(service oriented architecture)
May 5, 2008... MASHUP TOOLS have so far been used mostly for simple applications like adding geographical information to corporate data by pulling Google Maps into common processes. In recent weeks, though, several vendors, including IBM, have brought...

Microsoft pits S+S vs. SaaS.(On the Mark)
May 5, 2008... KEVIN TURNER, Microsoft's chief operating officer, complains about the hype around software as a service (SaaS), likening it to other trends that target IT but fizzle. "We've seen that movie before," he grumbles. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

The colors of Ethernet.(On the Mark)(Matisse Networks Inc.)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... The bright history of Ethernet gets even more colorful this week when Matisse Networks Inc. in Mountain View, Calif., unveils its vMetro PX and SX optical network switches as part of its EtherBurst product line. Timon Sloane, vice president of...

Michael Israel: the Six Flags CIO talks about running a seasonal business that literally moves, keeping lines short and paying the roller coaster's electric bill.(THE GRILL)(chief information officer)(Interview)
May 5, 2008... With 20 parks and nearly $1 billion in sales, Six Flags is the second-largest amusement park operator in the world. Since coming to Six Flags as part of a management reorganization two years ago, CIO Michael Israel has overseen a bottom-up...

Three rules for entry-level hiring.(OPINION)
May 5, 2008... WHAT COULD be easier than filling an entry-level job opening? You just match the skills you need, narrow the candidates down to those you click with in the interview and then go with a youngster--someone who might stick around for years. After...

It's open secret: Asperger's Syndrome has been a part of IT for as long as IT has existed. So why aren't we talking about it?
May 5, 2008... "RYNO" IS A FIFTYSOMETHING exsysadmin who, by his own account, is "burned out and living on disability" in rural Australia. He loved the tech parts of being a systems administrator, and he was good at them. But the interpersonal...

Buyer beware! These six infuriating tech sales reps will drive you to distraction.(MANAGEMENT)
May 5, 2008... WHEN Craig Urizzola's company decided to make a seven-figure investment in a new ERP system, he contacted his local reseller to order hardware to run it on. "We told them exactly what we wanted and said, 'We don't need SANs or clustering or any...

Beyond film: by replacing film-based images with an online system, FirstHealth reduced costs and improved patient care.(STORAGE)(FirstHealth of the Carolinas Inc.)
May 5, 2008... FIRSTHEALTH OF THE Carolinas Inc. began replacing its film-based radiological technology with an online digital capture and storage/retrieval system in late 2005 to enable up to 300 of its radiologists and physicians to instantly access...

Framing an acquisition: networks need to be integrated on Day One. But how much integration is really necessary?(SECURITY MANAGER'S JOURNAL)(Column)
May 5, 2008... MERGERS and acquisitions can be tricky from a security standpoint. In a way, that's because they tend to be rare, and so they present us with situations we don't encounter week to week in our work as security managers. Then there's my job....

Facts and meaning.(OPINION)(Column)
May 5, 2008... I OFTEN HEAR complaints about how unmotivated technical groups can be, but managers sometimes seem to miss some of the most important opportunities to create an environment in which motivation can grow. As best I can tell, this is deeply...

Big boss is watching.(Career Watch)(Survey)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Twenty-eight percent of employers have fired workers for misusing e-mail, and 30% have fired people for misusing the Internet, according to the 2007 Electronic Monitoring & Surveillance Survey, a study of 304 U.S. firms by the American...

Take a break!(Career Watch)(Survey)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Executives are feeling overburdened. Is your personal workload too heavy? No 27% Yes 73% Note: Table made from bar graph. SOURCE: SURVEY OF 230 SENIOR EXECUTIVES AND MANAGERS BY NFI RESEARCH. MADBURY, N.H., APRIL 2008

Timothy Golden: the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professor talks about the unhappy side of telecommuting.(Q & A)(Interview)
May 5, 2008... Telecommuting is painted as a boon for workers. Is it? Research suggests teleworkers experience a number of positive outcomes. But recently, a study of mine was published in the journal Human Relations that investigates telework's impact on...

But it's getting faster.(TRUE TALES OF IT LIFE)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Request comes to pilot fish to provide employee data for the companywide address book. No big deal. Time to code: 60 minutes. Affected employees: 8,000. "Flash forward two years," says fish. "Senior executives get new cell-phone toys that can...

About time.(TRUE TALES OF IT LIFE)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... This vendor is great at following through on support problems, with just one catch. "Their global support is based in Eastern Europe, and this has caused complications," says a customer pilot fish. "Recently I received a follow-up e-mail asking...

Listen harder.(TRUE TALES OF IT LIFE)(Brief article)
May 5, 2008... Customer at a lumberyard calls vendor support pilot fish saying his server is making a whirring noise, and fish quickly decides that the server's fans are starting to go. We'll send out a tech, fish says, but meanwhile you might try cleaning...

All about money.(FRANKLY SPEAKING)
May 5, 2008... WHAT IF you threw a technology party and nobody came? Wal-Mart is in that position with RFID. In 2003, the retail giant said it wanted its 100 largest suppliers to put an RFID tag on every pallet of merchandise delivered after January 2005--and...

Changing the world.(EDITOR'S NOTE)(Editorial)
May 12, 2008... AT AN IT conference in St. Louis a couple of weeks ago, an IBM executive gave a presentation in which she made an intriguing observation about people in their late teens and early twenties. "They want to change the world," she said....

Response to: agile reality.(ONLINE CHATTER)(Letter to the editor)
May 12, 2008... April 28,2008 Is agile programming an approach or a sales pitch? How many consultants are banging on corporate doors offering to teach this latest incarnation of what Cliff Stoll so aptly labeled "Silicon Snake Oil"? It's a cycle that...

Many hands may threaten sprint-clearwire venture.(WIRELESS)
May 12, 2008... SPRINT NEXTEL Corp., Clearwire Corp. and five other firms last week announced plans to create a $14.5 billion joint venture that would develop a national WiMax network. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sprint had been desperately seeking...

AMD's new multicore plan still trails Intel's.(HARDWARE)(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief article)
May 12, 2008... Advanced Micro Devices Inc. last week announced that it plans to release a six-core chip next year and a 12-core chip in 2010. The updated road map puts the struggling chip maker about a year behind rival Intel Corp. in the race to ship a...

Sun changes course on plan for MySQL add-ons.(SOFTWARE)(Sun Microsystems Inc. )
May 12, 2008... OFFICIALS AT Sun Microsystems Inc. said last week that the company is dropping a controversial plan to release some upcoming data-backup features--and potentially their source code--only to paying users of its open -source MySQL database. ...

iGate Mastech Inc.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
May 12, 2008... * Pittsburgh-based IT consultancy iGate Mas-tech Inc. has agreed to pay $45,000 in fines to settle complaints that it discriminated against U.S. citizens when it placed help-wanted ads seeking H-1B visa holders, according to the U.S. Department...

Facebook Inc.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
May 12, 2008... Facebook Inc. has reached an agreement with 49 states and the District of Columbia to implement new safety measures and refine existing ones that protect children against sexual predators.

Chip makers Intel Corp., Samsung Electronics Co.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
May 12, 2008... Chip makers Intel Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. agreed to collaborate in efforts to ease a move from 300mm wafers to 450mm wafers by 2014. The technology will make it possible to significantly...

Borland Software Corp.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
May 12, 2008... * Borland Software Corp. has agreed to sell its Code-Gear development tools unit to Embarcadero Technologies Inc. for $30 million. The deal is expected to close by June 30.

XP SP3 users face limits on removing IE7 from PCs.(OPERATING SYSTEMS)(Brief article)
May 12, 2008... MICROSOFT CORP. last eek warned users who update their PCs to Windows XP Service Pack 3 that they may not be able to downgrade from Internet Explorer 7 to IE6 without first uninstalling SP3. Jane Maliouta, an IE program manager, said in a...

Henning Kagermann: outgoing SAP head says co-CEOs are good fit - outside the U.S.(Q&A)(Interview)(Brief article)
May 12, 2008... ORLANDO SAP AG co-CEO Henning Kagermann, who is entering his last year on the job, took center stage at the company's Sapphire user conference here last week. In an interview with the IDG News Service, he reflected on his career, his...

Between the lines.(NEWS DIGEST)(Cartoon)
May 12, 2008... AT LEAST WE PULLED OFF ONE MERGER. SHARE HOLDERS [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Hewlett-Packard Co.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
May 12, 2008... Three Hewlett-Packard Co. user groups said they have formally merged into a single organization called Connect. The user groups - Encompass, ITUG and HP-Interex EMEA - announced the merger plan in February.

Sun Microsystems Inc.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
May 12, 2008... Sun Microsystems Inc. and the OpenSolaris project officially released the open-source version of Sun's Solaris operating system.

AT&T Corp.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
May 12, 2008... 17 YEARS AGO: AT&T Corp. announced that it had agreed to buy NCR Corp. for $7.4 billion. The merger was undone six years later, when NCR was spun off again.

Microsoft builds $280M campus.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
May 12, 2008... BEIJING -- Microsoft Corp. last week broke ground on a new research and development campus here and announced that it plans to double its Chinese research staff of 1,500 over an undisclosed period. The new $280 million (U.S.) Microsoft...

Telstra Awarded Australian Pact.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
May 12, 2008... CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA-The Australian Department of Defence has awarded a six-year, $162 million Australian ($153 million U.S.) contract to Telstra Corp. for telecommunication services. Greg Combet, parliamentary secretary for defense...

Briefly noted.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
May 12, 2008... The Hong Kong Judiciary last week said it has awarded a five-year outsourcing contract to Unisys Corp. Under the contract, Unisys will provide ongoing application support and maintenance, network infrastructure, office automation and other IT...

Where does Microsoft go now? Microsoft's bid for Yahoo looks like a dead end. But the software vendor has other options.(NEWS ANALYSIS)
May 12, 2008... POOR STEVE BALLMER. Having yanked his offer to buy Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp.'s CEO is left to run a $57 billion company that is on track for its annual orgy of profits and continues to dominate several software spheres. And he still gets to...

Multiple short outages can add up to major problems: preparing for major catastrophes is just one piece of IT disaster planning these days.(NEWS ANALYSIS)
May 12, 2008... NEW YORK CORPORATE executives have long created IT plans to cope with major disasters, but now they're increasingly taking steps to prevent the brief shutdowns that can cost companies hundreds of thousands of dollars or more in their own...

On the mark.(Cartoon)
May 12, 2008... You CAN CALL ME PROTEUS YA, THE BLUE CAT IS WORKIN' OUT MUCH BETTER THAN, THE OL' SHEED DOG. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Herd those IP addresses.(On the Mark)(Internet Protocol)(BlueCat Networks Inc's Proteus 2.5 )
May 12, 2008... IP ADDRESSES get handed out in oodles of ways, and they're discontinued all the time. So you'd think there would be no reasonable method for tracking them all. Not so, claims Branko Miskov. The director of product management at BlueCat...

Paul Major: Aspen Skiing Co.'s CIO talks about mapping business processes to renew the spirit, making pizza in a pinch and schussing on the job.(THE GRILL)(Interview)
May 12, 2008... How do you apply IT to manage your company's operations? I think, as with most companies, IT is central to everything that we're doing. Customer service is critical. Our product is not the kind that you can sell over the Internet. It's not a...

Say goodbye to business analysts.(OPINION)
May 12, 2008... Is THERE a place for business analysts in IT today? Not if their primary function is just to analyze business needs. As the pace of change accelerates, business people want more than analysis; they want workable solutions to their problems. ...

Viva Las Vegas! MGM Mirage's $8 billion CityCenter rolled the dice on a little-known online project management system. So far, it looks like a winner.(Cover story)
May 12, 2008... Even in a town where almost nothing is smaller than huge, the joint $8 billion-plus CityCenter venture between MGM Mirage and Dubai World has to be considered grandiose. The nine-building, 76-acre complex being developed at the heart of...

A help desk job: dead end or launching pad?(CAREERS)
May 12, 2008... WHEN Anthony McCloud graduated from Graceland University in 2000, he didn't have a smidgen of business experience. He didn't know the first thing about business processes, customer service or the quirks and habits of business workers. Now...

Revenge of the gamers! World of Warcraft and other games are honing tomorrow's business leaders.(Q&A)(Discussion)
May 12, 2008... MMORPGs--massively multiplayer online role-playing games--like World of Warcraft, Eve and EverQuest may be the best simulators of tommorrow's business environment. So say Byron Reeves, Thomas W. Malone and Tony O'Driscoll in this month's...

Pay as you go: a construction firm busts through piles of invoices with pro forma statements issued once a month.(SOFTWARE)(Tridel Corp.)
May 12, 2008... WHEN AN IT professional hits a home run, sometimes it's the magic of technology that's behind it. But sometimes it's the sheer brilliance of an idea. Tridel Corp.'s Zero Invoice project is an example of the latter. The concept was simple...

Getting the best from an audit: don't fear the audit. Learn from it. The important thing is that systems should be more secure in the end.(SECURITY MANAGER'S JOURNAL)
May 12, 2008... AN independent information security audit can be nerve-wracking, but this time, I actually enjoyed it. I guess it's just a matter of perspective. It might help that I've been an auditor myself, and so I knew what the auditor was looking...

State your purpose.(OPINION)
May 12, 2008... A GOOD MISSION STATEMENT is a brief, powerful description of an organization's purpose. Unfortunately, most corporate and IT mission statements are boring and forgettable expressions of motherhood and apple pie. Many are so vague and...

Sandee Kastrul: the president and founder of I.C.Stars talks about its IT leadership initiatives.(Q&A)(Interview)(Brief article)
May 12, 2008... Tell me about I. C. Stars. It's a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1999 for the purpose of developing 1,000 community leaders by 2020. Through training in technology, leadership and business skills, I. C. Stars prepares...

Go to bed!(Career Watch)(Brief article)
May 12, 2008... Dying to crawl under the desk for a few winks at work? Falling asleep during conference calls? You're no alone. In a poll of 1,000 randomly chosen Americans last fall, the National Sleep Foundation found that Americans are working more and...

Incentives for health.(Career Watch)(Brief article)
May 12, 2008... While some employers are using a stick to keep health benefit costs down (such as making smokers pay larger premiums), others are holding out carrots: They're altering their benefit enrollment systems to encourage employees to adopt healthier...

Shark tank: true tales of it life as told to sharky.
May 12, 2008... A Little Too Agile IT pilot fish is testing a new Web site built using an agile methodology, and he's not impressed. "I wanted to test a new feature added to the 'user profile' section," he says. "We had cleverly designed the user profile...

Stunt IT.(FRANKLY SPEAKING)
May 12, 2008... AT PURDUE UNIVERSITY last week, the IT staff built a supercomputer. A world-class supercomputer. Out of PCs. Using just local IT talent.(OK, a team from Indiana University also helped.) And it was done in less than a day. A stunt?...

Fluidity of influence.(EDITOR'S NOTE)(Editorial)
May 19, 2008... POP QUIZ: What do RedPrairie, FrontRange Solutions, Concur Technologies, Servigistics and Logility have in common? A. I made them all up. B. They really exist, but nobody seems to care. C. They existed at some point in time but...

Response to: IE-only marketing campaign skewed firefox, Safari numbers.(ONLINE CHATTER)(Letter to the editor)
May 19, 2008... May 7,2008 My grandmother used to say "figures never lie but liars always figure." I bet another check of these figures might show yet another conclusion entirely. Given the percentage of error, this survey could really show an...

Responses to: the 6 most infuriating tech sales styles.(ONLINE CHATTER)(Letter to the editor)
May 19, 2008... May 5, 2008 You forgot the telemarketer that is always calling to talk about toner, LCD cleaning pads, or only wants to ask you a few questions and exclaims they are not selling anything. Although harmless, they can take up a lot of your...

Roadrunner set to break the petaflop barrier.(HARDWARE)
May 19, 2008... ENGINEERS AT IBM's Poughkeepsie, N.Y., research facilities are assembling what they claim is the world's most powerful supercomputer--one that is capable of running twice as fast as today's top machine. The latest version of IBM's...

SEC moves ahead on XBRL plan.(DATA STANDARDS)(Securities and Exchange Commission )(Extensible Business Reporting Language)(Brief article)
May 19, 2008... The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last week took a major step toward requiring publicly traded companies to submit their financial reports in an interactive data format. The SEC voted unanimously to publish for public comment a...

Restaurant chain served card data to hackers.(SECURITY)
May 19, 2008... IN THE third incident of its kind to come kind to come to light since March, restaurant chain Dave & Buster's Inc. last week disclosed that credit and debit card numbers were stolen last year from the computer systems at 11 of its locations...

Microsoft Corp.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
May 19, 2008... * Yahoo Inc. late last week criticized investor Carl Icahn's bid to control its board and force it back to the bargaining table with Microsoft Corp. Icahn wants the online company to resume negotiations with Microsoft, whose $47.5 billion...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc.(Short Takes)(Mario Rivas )(Brief article)
May 19, 2008... * Advanced Micro Devices Inc. announced that Mario Rivas is leaving his post as head of its Computing Solutions Group "to pursue new opportunities." He was replaced by Randy Al len, who had been general manager of AMD's server and workstation...

Oracle Corp.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
May 19, 2008... * Oracle Corp. plans to buy AdminServer Inc., a maker of policy administration software for the insurance industry. Terms weren't disclosed. AdminServer will become part of a new Oracle business unit headed by former AdminServer CEO Rick...

Oklahoma state university.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
May 19, 2008... * Oklahoma State University last week began notifying about 70,000 individuals that their names, addresses and Social Security numbers may have been compromised by a hack into a university parking and transit department server.

Eli Lilly taps rock star coders for IT projects.(DEVELOPMENT)(Brief article)
May 19, 2008... Eli Lilly and Co. last week signed an agreement to use TopCoder Inc.'s stable of free-lance developers to help build applications for its global drug-discovery operations. TopCoder sponsors software development contests that attract...

Most developers still choosing XP over Vista.(OPERATING SYSTEMS)(Brief article)
May 19, 2008... SOME 18 months after its launch, Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista remains ignored by most North American corporate and commercial software developers, according to a survey released last week by Evans Data Corp. In the survey of 380...