Computerworld articles from November 2004

Computerworld archives from November 2004

Software vendors' audit requests irk IT managers: some view Sarb-Ox tie-ins as a ploy; others see nothing amiss.(NEWS)(Sarbanes-Oxley Act)
November 1, 2004... A number of software vendors are requesting that large corporate customers conduct self-audits against their software usage, allegedly to help the suppliers meet Sarbanes-Oxley regulatory requirements, according to several attendees at an IT...

GM, Boeing push identity management: expect single-sign-on rollouts to lower costs, improve access to apps.(NEWS)
November 1, 2004... General Motors Corp. plans to migrate its end-user identity management services to a single global system over the next several years as part of a broad initiative to improve IT efficiency and reduce the automaker's operational costs. When...

Expedia Unit offers single sign-on for travel bookings.(NEWS)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Business travelers who use Expedia Corporate Travel's Web site can now access its online services from within their own intranets via a single-sign-on approach, using their regular usernames and passwords. The Bellevue, Wash.-based unit of...

Textron, CSC sign outsourcing deal.(Computer Sciences Corp.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Computer Sciences Corp. said it has signed an IT outsourcing contract with Textron Inc. that's expected to be worth about $1.1 billion over the next 10 years. CSC will manage the Providence, R.I.-based conglomerate's global data center, help...

Oracle sets release date for new apps.(AT DEADLINE)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Oracle Corp. said it plans to ship the latest version of its ERP applications next Monday, although a spokeswoman noted that logistical issues could delay the release by a few days. Oracle announced the E-Business Suite 11i.10 software at its...

Revenue down at i2; Sales, profits up.(i2 Technologies Inc.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Supply chain software vendor i2 Technologies Inc. reported a 5% dip in third-quarter revenue compared with its year-earlier results. But Dallas-based i2 said its software license sales rose 21% year over year to $17 million. Profits more than...

Cybercrime arrests net 28 suspects.(AT DEADLINE)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... The U.S. Secret Service said it has arrested 28 people from eight U.S. states and six countries for alleged involvement in a global cybercrime ring. The Secret Service claimed that the suspects had collectively trafficked in at least 1.7...

Feds issue test copies of e-voting software: officials can match digital signatures to reference copies, but initial use is limited.(NEWS)
November 1, 2004... FEDERAL OFFICIALS last week released a set of software files submitted by five vendors of e-voting systems and voting verification tools, saying that election officials can use the code and related digital signatures to check whether the...

Officials defend systems, despite early e-voting problems.(NEWS)(malfunctions of e-voting systems )
November 1, 2004... SINCE early voting began on Oct. 18 in Florida and at least seven other states where tight presidential contests are expected, voters have reported hundreds of problems to the Election Incident Reporting System, some of which resulted from...

Tech standards set tone for on-demand systems: IT managers cite need for application flexibility and broader data integration.(NEWS)
November 1, 2004... When The Museum of Modern Art undertook an $858 million renovation and expansion project eight years ago, it gave CIO Steve Peltzman a blank canvas for rebuilding its data center and systems. Peltzman said last week that he's making the...

Starwood taps Hewlett-Packard for system development, outsourcing deal: hotel chain plans phaseout of its IBM mainframes.(NEWS)
November 1, 2004... IT flexibility has become vital to Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. And to try to make that a reality, Starwood has immersed itself in a project called Fusion that tightly couples its IT plans with business needs and includes a new...

Business execs must learn to embrace ILM: but convincing them that ILM can cut costs and ease data flow is a challenge.(NEWS)(information life-cycle management)
November 1, 2004... CORPORATE IT operations are moving ahead with efforts to develop information life-cycle management (ILM) schemes that can efficiently and cost-effectively store data so that its level of availability is consistent with its importance to the...

EMC 'virtualizes' the network.(NEWS)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... EMC last week unveiled its long-anticipated storage virtualization technology, which the company said lets users manage its arrays--and high-end boxes from major competitors--through a single interface. "This is finally EMC giving in to the...

Dell CEO says EMC pact could expand; merger unlikely.(chief executive officers, Kevin Rollins)(Interview)
November 1, 2004... Dell Inc. has been a reseller and manufacturer of EMC Corp. low-end and midrange arrays since 2002. As the partnership grows and Dell's annual storage revenue passes the $1.5 billion mark, Dell CEO Kevin Rollins must clearly define his...

EDS postpones Q3 earnings report ...(Electronic Data Systems Corp.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Electronic Data Systems Corp. delayed the release of its third-quarter financial results from last Monday to this Wednesday, saying that it was reviewing the value of the IT assets being used as part of its $8.8 billion intranet contract with...

... And offers early retirement program.(Electronic Data Systems Corp.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... EDS also said it's offering early retirement incentives to about 9,200 of its 53,000 U.S. workers. EDS expects about half of the eligible employees to accept the buyouts, although it noted that some of the vacated jobs would likely have to be...

EC clears Oracle's bid for PeopleSoft.(BRIEFS)(European Commission)
November 1, 2004... The European Commission has given Oracle Corp. the green light to proceed with its hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft Inc., removing the last regulatory roadblock to a deal. The commission said it was unable to find "sufficient evidence of...

Short takes.(BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... RED HAT INC. warned its Linux users about an e-mail hoax urging recipients to download purported software patches that actually contain malicious code.... Japan's Fair Trade Commission held an initial hearing with MICROSOFT CORP. over...

CIO relishes 'guinea pig' role ...(chief information officers, Ron Markezich)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... ... inside Microsoft because "I can realize value earlier." So says Ron Markezich, CIO for IT at Microsoft. But Markezich might easily be misconstrued as a senior executive on the vendor's quality assurance team. His staff is responsible for...

CIW looks beyond alpha products ...(Center for Information Work, Ringcam)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... ... and slips its R & D work into "the office of the future." The Microsoft Center for Information Work on the company's Redmond, Wash., campus gives corporate users a glimpse of IT's misty future through a series of hands-on demos. "We're out...

Forget Java, C# or C++ because ...(Flash as a new programming language)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... ... the next hot development language is Flash. Although Kevin Lynch, chief software architect at San Francisco-based Macromedia Inc., doesn't claim that you'll never need to program in anything but Flash again, he does argue that if you're...

Faxes to use IP networks in a ...(new fax software)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... ... new release of RightFax from Captaris Inc. in Bellevue, Wash. Version 9.0, available this week, includes an optional board from Brook-trout Inc. that slips into the Captaris fax server. The board handles the electrical differences between...

Dell installs SUSE Linux on servers.(BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Dell Inc. said it plans to preinstall Novell Inc.'s SUSE Linux operating system on several of its Power-Edge servers and fully support users of the software. Dell already preinstalls Red Hat Linux on its servers, but it had offered SUSE Linux...

Nortel again delays release of results.(Nortel Networks Corp.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Nortel Networks Corp. again delayed its release of restated financial results for 2003 as well as its numbers for the first half of this year. The Brampton, Ontario-based company was due to report the results by the end of October, but CEO Bill...

Nextel extends IT deal with Amdocs.(Nextel Communications Inc.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Wireless carrier Nextel Communications Inc. has extended by two years an IT services contract under which Chesterfield, Mo.-based Amdocs Ltd. manages its billing and customer support systems. Reston, Va.-based Nextel said the contract,...

Short takes.(briefs)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... The U.S. appeals court in Cincinnati vacated a preliminary injunction blocking Sanford, N.C.-based STATIC CONTROL COMPONENTS INC. from distributing chips it uses to clone Lexmark Inc.'s printer cartridges.... CINGULAR WIRELESS LLC completed its...

BEA aims to boost WebLogic business: bundled solutions target vertical markets, IBM.(NEWS)(BEA Systems Inc.)
November 1, 2004... BEA SYSTEMS INC., looking to broaden its middleware business, last week took the wraps off a solutions framework that can help WebLogic Platform users build service-oriented architectures (SOA) for tackling common enterprise pain points like...

Symantec tries to move beyond security tools.(NEWS)
November 1, 2004... Symantec Corp. last week outlined an "information integrity" strategy that users and analysts said addresses a growing need for a more holistic view of the operational and security risks that companies face. But they added that whether the...

Germans assess Linux deployment costs.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... TOUGH ECONOMIC times in Germany have made Linux operating systems and other open-source products tantalizing to local businesses. yet many remain hesitant to dump their Microsoft Corp. software completely, if only because it performs relatively...

Cable & Wireless continues fire sale.(subdivisions are sold)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... LONDON-BASED network operator Cable & Wireless PLC agreed last week to sell its Japanese business, Cable & Wireless IDC Inc., to Softbank Corp. for $133.3 million. But C & W will retain two international data nodes so it can continue to provide...

N.Z. regulator blocks Westpac outsourcing.(New Zealand, Westpac Banking Corp.)
November 1, 2004... WESTPAC BANKING CORP.'S plan to move its New Zealand mainframe processing to Australia has been scuttled by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. A cutover to an IBM Global Services facility in Sydney was scheduled for earlier this month, but just a...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc.(Briefly Noted)(information about the new personal computer)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Advanced Micro Devices Inc. last week unveiled a $249 PC for the developing world. The Personal Internet Communicator is a bare-bones PC with basic software, AMD's Geode GX500 embedded processor, 128MB of RAM and a 10GB hard drive. * TOM...

The government of Ghana.(Data Centa Ghana Ltd., Lexis Nexis Butterworths Pty Ltd., contract)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... The government of Ghana recently signed an agreement with Data Centa Ghana Ltd. and Lexis Nexis Butterworths (Pty) Ltd. that will make the country's laws accessible online. Durban, South Africa-based Lexis Nexis Butterworths has similar...

Sybase Inc.(contract with Bank of China)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Sybase Inc.'s Financial Fusion Inc. subsidiary in Concord, Mass., has won a multimillion-dollar contract to set up an online banking system for Bank of China, one of China's largest banks. * SUMNER LEMON, IDG NEWS SERVICE

Users call for improved wireless management.(NEWS)
November 1, 2004... At a conference held here last week by wireless industry trade group CTIA, IT managers, analysts and vendors all cited the need to find better ways to deploy and manage handheld devices as well as wireless services. Vendors such as Sprint...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
November 1, 2004... A story about dual-core processors that ran in last week's Technology section ("CPUs Rev New Engines") incorrectly listed the year in which Intel Corp. introduced its first microprocessor, the 4004. Development of the 4-bit chip began in 1969,...

Toledo Schools may resurrect stalled PeopleSoft implementation.(NEWS)
November 1, 2004... As it looks to upgrade its big-iron ERP system, the public school system in Toledo, Ohio, is also eyeing the resurrection of a $4.3 million PeopleSoft Inc. accounting and human resources software installation it abandoned five years ago. ...

Microsoft recants pledge for Exchange add-on: exec retreats from promise of 2005 ship.(NEWS)
November 1, 2004... Microsoft Corp.'s plans for its Exchange Server line have become even more uncertain than they were earlier this year when the company removed the 2006 "Kodiak" release of the messaging software from its product road map. Microsoft...

Microsoft revises antispam plan.(NEWS)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... After running into loud opposition to its first Sender ID antispam plan, Microsoft Corp, revised it and resubmitted it to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) last week. The new plan resolves disputes with Internet service providers...

Hosted SAP service targets midmarket.(SAP AG)
November 1, 2004... SAP AG is rolling out a hosted service it hopes will appeal to midsize customers that can buy the software at a monthly fee as low as $325 per user per month while avoiding much of the complexity of in-house installations. SAP last week...

In praise of perseverance.(OPINION)
November 1, 2004... FOR AS LONG AS I can remember, whenever anyone has asked me what trait I admire most in a person, I've been able to respond without having to ponder the question. It's perseverance. The faith, courage, strength and will it takes to refuse to...

Flawed vote could give IT a black eye.(OPINION)
November 1, 2004... IT'S LESS THAN two weeks before the 2004 elections as I write this, and I'm going to go out on a not-very-long limb with a prediction. Who's going to win the presidency is anyone's guess, but it's a no-brainer to say ahead of time that we'll...

'Hi, I'm from IT, and I'm here to help'.(OPINION)
November 1, 2004... MY COMPANY has a hard time maintaining its profit margins. Customers can buy what we sell (stuff like paper cups, plastic spoons, paper towels, mops and floor wax) from lots of other companies. The prices we can charge are always being driven...

Programmers can learn from mechanics.(READERS' LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2004... I AGREE WITH DON TENNANT'S final comment in his "Handicapped Thinking" column [QuickLink 49904] about the e-mail from a Linux supporter regarding auto mechanics. It does auto mechanics a great disservice to assume that a failed programmer could...

Job hunt peeves.(READERS' LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2004... SINCE GETTING DOWNSIZED from a Big Five consulting firm two years ago, I have been on numerous interviews and have a few pet peeves of my own ["Hiring Horrors," QuickLink 49558]. The biggest is being asked to walk the hiring manager through my...

Data centers get a makeover: changing technology trends and strategic objectives have IT organizations rethinking basic data center designs.(TECHNOLOGY)(Cover Story)
November 1, 2004... TAKE A STROLL through almost any data center today, and you will see pretty much what you would have seen a decade ago--square white tiles over a raised floor, bright florescent lights, little red fire alarms everywhere and rows of faintly...

OpenVMS survives and thrives: the 'legacy' operating system maintains a substantial base in large organizations, and there's promise of new interest as it moves to 64-bit Itanium.(Virtual Memory System)
November 1, 2004... OpenVMS was supposed to have died a slow and unheralded death sometime during the 1990s. Labeled passe by analysts and "legacy" by Windows and Unix enthusiasts in the wake of the distributed computing boom of the '90s, it hardly merits a...

Error checking and correction.(methods)
November 1, 2004... WHENEVER we send data--whether it's audio signals over a phone line, a data stream or a legal document--to someone else, we need to know that what arrives on the other end is identical to what we sent. Similarly, whenever we store data on disk...

Lack of control becomes nightmare: our security manager discovers that finding out what's really going on in the network is a daunting task.(SECURITY MANAGER'S JOURNAL)
November 1, 2004... I HAD A BAD DREAM the other night. In it, I was sleeping in the back seat of a convertible. I woke up because the air had gotten chilly and the car was swaying. I rubbed my eyes and tried to shake the cobwebs out of my mind as I peered into the...

Security bookshelf.(written by Steven Branigan)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... * High-Tech Crimes Revealed: Cyberwar Stories From the Digital Front, by Steven Branigan; Addison-Wesley, 2004. The author, an internationally recognized computer security expert, has been involved in both private- and public-sector...

IBM offers monthly security reports.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... IBM has introduced a security service that offers a concise monthly report of global network threats. Designed to help organizations assess their security needs from a business perspective, IBM Security Intelligence Services reports can be...

New Symantec Security Appliance.(data security device)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Symantec Corp. announced a line of security appliances for branch offices. The Symantec Gateway Security Appliance 400 Series devices feature a firewall, intrusion prevention and detection, antivirus policy management, content filtering and...

Ascential to develop new user interface.(Ascential Software Corp.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Data integration application vendor Ascential Software Corp. in Westboro, Mass., last week announced a new self-adapting interface for its Enterprise Integration Suite. The interface will be able to anticipate users' tasks and offer execution...

Sendmail offers Content Manager.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Mailstream Content Manager from e-mail security vendor Sendmail Inc. is available now. The product features e-mail content policy management and antispam and virus protection. It also has a management console that allows business-specific...

Microsoft releases migration tool kit.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Microsoft Corp. released a free, downloadable migration tool kit for the Virtual Server Migration 2005 software it recently released. The Virtual Server 2005 Migration Toolkit enables users with server hardware running Windows NT 4.0, Server...

Inovis certifies interoperability.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Inovis Inc. announced that its BizManager 3.0 trading partner connectivity software has been certified for Applicability Statement 2 interoperability. BizManager 3.0 will be generally available in December, the Alpharetta, Ga.-based company...

Make vendors pay for security flaws.
November 1, 2004... INFORMATION INSECURITY is costing us billions. We pay for it in theft--information and financial theft. We pay for it in productivity loss, both when networks stop working and in the dozens of minor security inconveniences we all have to...

Outsourcing tuneup: changing needs can make last year's outsourcing strategy obsolete. Ask these 10 questions to keep it on the mark.(MANAGEMENT)
November 1, 2004... MANY COMPANIES that sign on for outsourcing services file away the contract and pull it out only when the three-, five- or 10-year term comes to an end. But it's important to regularly review not only whether the original contract is still...

Watch your weblog: legal liabilities lurk amid corporate blogs.(MANAGEMENT)
November 1, 2004... MORE AND MORE PEOPLE are jumping on the corporate weblogging bandwagon. At Microsoft Corp., for example, there are currently more than 1,000 blogs. Like many companies, especially the IT vendor companies where weblogs tend to proliferate,...

Drilling down into ROI numbers.(BRAIN FOOD FOR IT EXECUTIVES)
November 1, 2004... WHEN IT CONSULTANCY Alinean LLC came out with corporate rankings based on its new IT benchmarking metric, the top companies were Fannie Mae and Pioneer Natural Resources Co. But Wal-Mart Stores Inc., often considered a huge IT success story,...

Best bits: the most useful parts of recent business and IT management books.(written by John C. Beck and Mitchell Wade)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... THE BOOK: Got Game: How the Gamer Generation Is Reshaping Business Forever, by John C. Beck and Mitchell Wade (Harvard Business School Press, 2004). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Conventional wisdom holds that gamers--those who grew up...

Things to ponder.(management of business enterprise )(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... * A report by the CFO Executive Board, a research group in Washington, says chief financial officers have wrongly tried to expand their influence into realms such as IT and procurement when they should be sticking to their core responsibility...

The IT economy.(survey of retail sales)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... It's well known that online sales account for only 2% of all U.S. retail sales. But a new study says that nearly 15% of U.S. retail spending is currently influenced by the research that shoppers do on the Internet. The Dieringer Research Group...

Buying intentions.(survey in information technology industry)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... IDC researchers say their index of business IT demand (below) shows that user spending expectations have cooled, although there are signs that the market is improving. For example. IDC says that "revenue forecasts for IT vendors have stopped...

Hard times continue.(survey on IT workers)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Tough times are far from over, say 294 IT workers who responded to a recent survey by Amplitude Research Inc. in Birmingham, Mich. Some key findings: 24% work for companies that have outsourced IT jobs. 46% have not received a raise in...

Graduates gain.(increase in average salary)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... The IT class of 2004 is in the money--at least compared with the class of 2003, according to a survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers. This is the first year since 2001 that IT-related majors have seen an increase in...

Job tracker.(American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations database)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... This AFL-CIO database allows you to search by ZIP code, industry or company name to "find out which jobs in your community have been exported or lost due to trade." Try it: www.workingamerica.org/jobtracker/index.cfm

U.S. IT staffing is up ...(Career Watch)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... ... but outsourcing is taking a toll, says Andrew Bartels, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc. Despite the furor over offshore outsourcing, the number of U.S. IT jobs actually grew in 2003 and will continue to grow from 2004 to 2008, he says....

Companies plan for growth.(Career Watch)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
November 1, 2004... Overall focus of the company... 12 months ago: 26% Primarily growth 41% Primarily cost control 25% About evenly split 8% Not sure Today: 27% Primarily growth 32% Primarily cost control 34% About evenly split 7%...

Management attitudes.(Brief Article)(Illustration)
November 1, 2004... Is your top management more or less confident in the economy now than earlier this year? Less 24% More 76% Note: Table made from pie chart. Is Sarbanes-Oxley having an impact on your software spending? Spending more 21%...

What's the problem?(MANAGEMENT)(software industry)
November 1, 2004... THOSE OF US IN IT tend to see the world through the lens of problems and solutions. Our entire work lives are devoted to solving problems. One after the other, we knock them down. This habit tends to start early in life. In school, we are...

Microsoft LCS security features drive interest in corporate IM: will enable users of popular messaging systems to communicate more safely.(Live Communications Server, instant messaging)
November 1, 2004... Microsoft Corp.'s new Live Communications Server (LCS) 2005 could prove to be a crucial ingredient in the spread of corporate instant messaging use, some users and analysts say. The offering, which is compatible with most popular IM...

Offshore dot-bomb.(future of information technology outsourcing)
November 1, 2004... WHY ARE WE OFFSHORING IT? I've puzzled over that question ever since I spent a day last month at a conference for lawyers on IT offshoring. The lawyers, of course, were focused on how to write good outsourcing contracts--struggling to figure...

Right on schedule.(changes in mainframe computers)
November 1, 2004... Every time there's a major change on the mainframe, this user complains that the change has broken one of his programs. "We're told to just fix it, even when we're certain it never ran," says systems programmer pilot fish. Then comes the day...

Electronic voting systems pass their big test--maybe: vendors say election validates technology; Critics not convinced.(NEWS)
November 8, 2004... Electronic voting systems avoided the virtual meltdown that some people had predicted during last Tuesday's election. But critics said the technology still has significant shortcomings that raise questions about the validity of the results...

State avoids tax refund on ERP system: ruling in Wisconsin may have wider reach.(NEWS)
November 8, 2004... A judge has refused to order the state of Wisconsin to refund more than $340,000 in sales tax paid on a customized SAP system, which may set a precedent that relieves the state of the need to pay a total of about $300 million to corporate...

Stone leaves Novell in a surprise move.(Chris Stone)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... VICE CHAIRMAN CHRIS STONE left Novell Inc. after helping the company reinvigorate itself over the past year with a strong Linux push that included the acquisition of SUSE Linux AG. In a statement late last week, Stone said he left Waltham,...

Cisco, Wells Fargo face new security breaches: more Cisco code said to be stolen; PC thefts expose Wells Fargo customer data.(NEWS)(Cisco Systems Inc)(Wells Fargo & Co)
November 8, 2004... Two well-known companies--Cisco Systems Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co.--last week found themselves dealing with the aftermath of apparent security breaches that in both cases were embarrassingly similar to incidents both had confronted only months...

CA unveils antispyware tool for corporate market.(Computer Associates International Inc.)
November 8, 2004... Although spyware is rapidly emerging as a threat to corporate security, only a handful of enterprise-class tools are available to help companies deal with the problem. Hoping to fill that gap, Computer Associates International Inc. Today...

Railroad uses IP net to control signals, switches: BNSF expects $30M project in Seattle to boost network reliability, capacity.(NEWS)(Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co)
November 8, 2004... The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. is nearing the end of the line on the installation of a $30 million IP network along a heavily traveled rail corridor in the Seattle area, a project that's expected to increase the reliability of...

Microsoft offers early glimpse of patches.(NEWS)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... Microsoft Corp. last week said that it will give users advance notice of its monthly security updates as part of an effort to make it easier for IT managers to install software patches. Starting this month, the company will post on its Web...

EDS again delays Q3 earnings report.(Electronic Data Systems Corp.)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... Electronic Data Systems Corp. postponed the release of its third-quarter financial results for the second time and didn't set a new date for finalizing the numbers. EDS had planned to report the results on Oct. 25 but is reviewing the value of...

Oracle raises its bid for PeopleSoft.(BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... Oracle Corp. increased the price of its hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft Inc., saying the new offer is its "best and final" one. Oracle raised its all-cash offer to $24 per share, upping the overall value of the proposed deal to $9.2...

CA starts to ship open-source DB.(Computer Associates International Inc., database)(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... Computer Associates International Inc. released an open-source version of its Ingres database for Linux and Windows systems, keeping to a plan announced last spring [QuickLink 47216]. Registered users can download the Ingres r3 software under...