Computerworld articles from October 2004

Computerworld archives from October 2004

Hot servers not so cool for data center managers: vendors leap ahead with dense, fast systems, but cooling issues make some users reluctant to buy.(News)
October 11, 2004... Low-end server technology is racing ahead of the ability of many data centers to keep the increasingly dense and fast systems cool, a problem that's stopping some IT managers from using the new machines. Users may have to invest in new...

IBM on-demand data centers in the works.(IBM Global Services)
October 11, 2004... ATLANTA IBM announced last week that it will expand the number of its on-demand data centers from one to 11 by the end of the year as part of a push to offer users virtual IT resources that can, in effect, be pooled and made available...

ILM projects go forward, but slowly: IT execs face internal, technical challenges.(information technology)(information life-cycle management)
October 11, 2004... IT managers at a conference here last week said they face daunting tasks in trying to implement information life-cycle management approaches, including classifying data based on its business value so it can be stored on different types of...

The number crunchers: CFOs of IT face an uphill course in their efforts to measure and quantify the often intangible benefits of technology.(Management)(Chief financial officers)(information technology)
October 11, 2004... MIKE SCARDINA has been the chief financial officer for IT at Allstate Insurance Co. for nearly 10 years. But it's only in the past few years that the spotlight on his role has intensified. Allstate's annual technology spending has swelled to...

A counting life.(Q&A)(Interview)
October 11, 2004... Paul Costello officially retired as the CFO of IT at the University of Miami on May 31, 2003. But while he's less involved in day-to-day budget activities as a twice-a-week special projects manager for the Coral Gables, Fla.-based university,...

JBoss app server gets J2EE compliance, draws interest: users start to explore open-source offerings, but concerns remain.(JBoss Inc.)(JBoss Application Server 4.0.)
October 11, 2004... IBM and BEA Systems Inc. hold the lead in the application server software market, but the recent release of the first J2EE-compliant open-source offering from JBoss Inc. could spark more corporate users to check out new options. A...

Novell postpones OES release plan.(Open Enterprise Server software)(Novell Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... Novell Inc. said its Open Enterprise Server software will ship in February, two months later than the December release date it set last spring [QuickLink 45763]. OES will run on top of both the NetWare and Linux kernels, and Novell said it...

Sun, Kodak agree to settle lawsuit.(At Deadline)
October 11, 2004... Sun Microsystems Inc. said it has agreed to pay $92 million to settle a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Eastman Kodak Co. in 2002. The settlement was announced six days after a federal jury in New York ruled that Sun's Java programming...

Microsoft probes flaw in ASP.Net.(At Deadline)
October 11, 2004... Microsoft Corp. said it's investigating a reported vulnerability in its ASP.Net software that could allow an attacker to bypass security features on a Web server and view sensitive content. It also provided instructions for mitigating the...

Dell recalls 990k notebook adapters.(At Deadline)
October 11, 2004... Dell Inc. is recalling about 990,000 electrical adapters that were sold from 1998 to 2002 for use with its notebook PCs. The recall followed seven reports of overheating problems with the adapters, which were made in China by Taipei,...

For Siebel, new strategy is next chapter in CRM; changes approach on development, technical services.(Siebel Systems Inc.)(customer relationship management )
October 11, 2004... TO SOME USERS of Siebel Systems Inc.'s customer relationship management software, a "Chapter 2" strategy that the company unveiled here last week in an attempt to revitalize its sagging fortunes is no big deal. But others said they were buoyed...

Outsourcing vendor starts to cut IT workers at Texas utility; Capgemini plans layoffs, shift of 50 apps jobs to India.(News)
October 11, 2004... Capgemini Energy LP, which was formed in July to manage IT and back-office operations for energy conglomerate TXU Corp., this month plans to start dismissing about 230 former TXU workers, including 50 to 75 technology staffers. The cuts...

CA buys Netegrity to expand in IT security; product overlap issues could affect users, analysts say.(Computer Associates International Inc.)(NeTegrity Inc.)(information technology)
October 11, 2004... Computer Associates International Inc. last week said it plans to buy Netegrity Inc. in an effort to boost its share of the market for identity and access management software. But the deal may result in short-term uncertainty for users because...

SunGard to undo merger via spin-off.(SunGard Data Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... SunGard Data Systems Inc. said it will split into two companies early next year by spinning off its disaster recovery unit. The move will undo the 1983 merger that created SunGard, although the Wayne, Pa.-based company said the disaster...

Former Peregrine execs face charges.(Peregrine Systems Inc. )(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... A federal grand jury in San Diego indicted eight former executives of Peregrine Systems Inc. on charges of conspiracy to commit securities fraud. The charges cover a period from March 1999 through May 2002. John Mutch, who took over as...

Sun details plans for faster CPU.(Sun Microsystems Inc.)(central processing unit)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... Sun Microsystems Inc. introduced a new UltraSparc IV processor designed to double application performance, with features such as multithreading and expanded caches and buffers. The UltraSparc IV+ will also have a higher clock speed than Sun's...

Short takes.(visas)(semiconductor sales)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... The fiscal 2005 cap on H-1B VISAS for foreign workers was reached on Oct. 1, the day the federal fiscal year began. The cap was reached even faster than had been expected [QuickLink 49794].... ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC. reported that its...

Web services put eBay, PayPal in ...(eBay Inc.)(PayPal Inc.)
October 11, 2004... ... your supply chain pocket. Enterprises like Dell Inc., IBM and the state of Oregon already use eBay Inc. and its PayPal Inc. online payments division to profitably move unwanted capital goods that are gathering dust on their shelves into the...

IBM app server upgrade aims to reduce system downtime; new WebSphere release can detect outages, shift data processing workloads.(International Business Machines Corp.)
October 11, 2004... IBM LAST WEEK unveiled an upgrade of its WebSphere application server software that includes new features designed to protect applications from system downtime and boost efforts by developers to create service-oriented architectures. ...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
October 11, 2004... Due to inaccurate information provided by storage switch vendor McData Corp., a story in last week's News section contained several errors about the technology being used as part of a storage-area network project at State Street Corp.'s...

Navy, EDS modify performance measurements on Intranet project; clarify contract specs, copy private IT best practices.(Electronic Data Systems Corp.)(information technology )
October 11, 2004... The U.S. Navy and Electronic Data Systems Corp. have agreed to scale back and streamline the performance measurements used to evaluate the progress that EDS is making on the $8.8 billion Navy/Marine Corps Intranet (N/MCI) project. Navy and...

PeopleSoft director says deal possible.(PeopleSoft Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... A member of PeopleSoft Inc.'s board of directors said in a Delaware court that there's a "high certainty" that the company would accept Oracle Corp.'s hostile takeover offer if the price were high enough. "Never did we imply that there...

EC relaunches its probe of Oracle bid.(Oracle Corp.)(European Commission)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... The European Commission said it has restarted its investigation into Oracle's bid for PeopleSoft after Oracle "substantially complied" with a request for more information that was issued in April. The commission also set a Nov. 9 deadline for...

Canadian retailer divests apps work.(Briefs)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... Boston-based Keane Inc. said its Canadian subsidiary has signed a five-year deal to take over maintenance of existing applications for Shoppers Drug Mart Corp., a Toronto-based drugstore chain. The two companies said 77 IT workers will be...

Short takes.(software news)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... UNISYS CORP. announced plans to lay off about 1,400 workers, a move that will reduce its 37,000-person workforce by 4%.... Looking to increase its market presence in Europe, AVAYA INC. said it has agreed to pay $635 million to buy Tenovis...

Companies fight back against phishing scams: take action to curb costs, stem loss of customer confidence--and customers.(News)
October 11, 2004... THE POTENTIAL erosion of consumer confidence in the online transaction process and the cost to companies resulting from phishing scams has triggered a multifaceted response from some organizations. For example, London-based Barclays Bank...

New tools let users open mainframe data to Web apps: attachmate adds software that enables blending of legacy info, Web services.(Attachmate Corp.)
October 11, 2004... ATTACHMATE CORP. is upgrading its mainframe connectivity product line with a pair of new tools designed to help software developers more easily tap into legacy data when building Web-based applications. The Bellevue, Wash.-based vendor last...

SAP beefs up Java support capabilities for NetWeaver.(SAP AG)
October 11, 2004... Looking to penetrate further into the software infrastructure market, SAP AG last week announced plans to add new Java and business intelligence capabilities to its NetWeaver suite of middleware and application integration tools. At its...

DHS faulted for terrorist data woes.(Department of Homeland Security)
October 11, 2004... The U.S. Department of Homeland Security still isn't doing enough to integrate information that's stored in a dozen terrorist watch-list databases maintained by nine federal agencies, according to a report by the inspector general at the DHS....

Handicapped thinking.(Opinion)
October 11, 2004... THREE WEEKS AGO in this space, I mentioned that I had a signed copy of Bill Gates' book Business @ the Speed of Thought; and I said I'd auction it off to raise money for The ALS Association. The winning bid was an even $100, and it came from...

The why and what of the CFO for IT.(Opinion)(chief financial officers)(information technology)
October 11, 2004... FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT'S last written words from Warm Springs, Ga., in the spring of 1945 counseled global leaders and ordinary citizens alike on the need "to cultivate the science of human relationships." On the IT scene, a new player, the CFO for...

Public net connections put at risk.(Opinion)
October 11, 2004... AS WE HEAD into the home stretch of the presidential election, consider this snafu: Money to support high-speed Internet and telephone service in public libraries and schools, as mandated by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, is being tied up...

In praise of change.(Readers' Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
October 11, 2004... THE STORY DETAILING Paul Ingevaldson's "IT Survival Guide" [QuickLink 48479] was a well-done piece. I enjoyed reading about a fellow CIO who is moving on to the next phase of life by choice. John Townsend Carlsbad, Calif.

One more loophole in data destruction.(Readers' Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
October 11, 2004... IT MIGHT BE USEFUL to add another caveat to the matters addressed in Frank Hayes' column of Aug. 30 ["Shred, Burn, Erase," QuickLink 49071]. Users, especially developers and other techies, often maintain personal backups of whatever they're...

Value experience.(Readers' Letters)
October 11, 2004... HEAR! HEAR! to this statement: "Smart companies are enticing their older, wiser IT workers to remain on the job a little bit longer" ["Staying Power," QuickLink 48720]. Most CEOs are fattening their wallets with the so-called cost savings found...

Extending identity: though federated identity management technologies promise improved access to networks and cost savings, issues of trust and interoperability slow adoption.(Technology)
October 11, 2004... THE REDUCED identity administration costs, improved access to cross-organizational applications and better security promised by federated identity management systems are finally beginning to drive corporate interest, say proponents of the...

Express delivery: Web-enabled application delivery appliances combine several technologies to ensure fast, secure and reliable access to Web applications.(Technology)
October 11, 2004... CHARTONE INC. had invested heavily in a new Web-enabled application, only to discover that it reached end users too slowly. "We were having challenges running PeopleSoft efficiently," says Henry Svendblad, director of IT and information systems...

Grazing the nanograss: adaptable substance may cool computers and put a zoom lens in your cell phone.(Future Watch)
October 11, 2004... A drop of water glides across the flat surface like quick-silver, moving effortlessly from place to place as the surface is tilted. It's hard to believe that the little bead is water, for it doesn't wet the surface as it races around, seemingly...

Security review uncovers rampant virus infections: our new journal writer makes a most unpleasant discovery just as the IT auditors arrive.(Security Manager's Journal)(information technology)
October 11, 2004... WHEN the call came, I wasn't surprised. The voice at the other end of the line said, "Our network security analysis tool has found something we call 'suspicion indicators' on your network. I think you need to look at this right away." I had a...

New tool helps authenticate PDFs.(Security Log)(Portable Document Format)(Geo-Trust Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... Adobe Systems Inc. and Geo-Trust Inc. announced the Certified Document Service, designed to verify and authenticate the identity of senders of Adobe PDF files. With Geo-Trust's True Credentials digital signing technology, users can create...

F5 improves its VPN technology.(Security Log)(F5 Networks Inc.)(virtual private network)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... Seattle-based F5 Networks Inc. last week announced a new version of its FirePass Controller, Secure Sockets Layer virtual private network technology that features broader client and application access support, enhanced management capabilities...

Easier SSO rollout.(single sign-on system)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... M-Tech Information Technology Inc. has integrated its P-Synch password management tool and Citrix Systems Inc.'s MetaFrame Password Manager. New capabilities include self-service password reset for forgotten or expired passwords, which M-Tech...

Attensity suite for unstructured data.(Attensity Corp.)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... Attensity Corp. in Palo Alto, Calif., announced the Attensity Application Suite. It is based on Attensity Server, which extracts relational facts, entities and events from text-based information. The suite is available in versions tailored to...

Force10 launches new switch line.(Force10 Networks)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... Force10 Networks Inc. in Milpitas, Calif., last month introduced the TeraScale E-Series family of switches. The new switches deliver 672 line-rate Gigabit Ethernet ports and 56 line-rate 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports in a single chassis, according...

SAS announces Forecasting app.(SAS Institute Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... SAS Institute Inc. has announced the High-Performance Forecasting application. The tool is designed to automate predictive analysis operations and make them more accessible to nontechnical users. It is expected to be particularly useful in...

Movaris upgrades Sarb-Ox suite.(Movaris Inc.)(Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)(Brief Article)
October 11, 2004... Movaris Inc. in Cupertino, Calif., has introduced Certainty 8.0, a modular suite of its software for managing finances according to requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. New functionality includes tools for ensuring compliance with Sections...

Finding the candidate for IT.(Information technology)
October 11, 2004... WHICH U.S. PRESIDENTIAL candidate is most in tune with issues of particular interest to IT professionals? On many subjects, the two major candidates, and their parties, are pretty equivalent. Both George Bush and John Kerry support...

Senate CIO: think you've got tough customers? J. Greg Hanson serves 100 U.S. senators, dozens of committees and staffs in 50 states. And about that upcoming inauguration ...(Q&A)(chief information officers)(Interview)
October 11, 2004... About a year and a half ago, the leadership of the U.S. Senate decided to raise the profile of IT at the Capitol. They wanted to provide direction, update technology, elevate awareness and improve customer service. To accomplish that, they...

Career watch.(Q&A)(Interview)
October 11, 2004... I've been in the credit management field for 10 years, but I'm considering a midlife career change to be an IT instructor. Can you give me some advice on the market prospects? While the technical training and executive education industry has...

Competitive Intelligence.(Events)(Calendar)
October 11, 2004... Oct. 28-29, Boston Sponsor: Institute for International Research Competitive Technical Intelligence 2004 explores tools and techniques for using business intelligence. Topics include improving your odds, linking CTI to customer needs,...

Business Process Management.(Events)(Calendar)
October 11, 2004... Nov. 3-4, New York Sponsor: BrainStorm Group Inc. The sixth annual Business Process Management Conference includes both business and IT tracks with presentations, case studies and best practices. Topics include process modeling,...

Executive Coaching.(Events)(Calendar)
October 11, 2004... Nov. 8-9, New York Sponsor: The Conference Board Inc. The 2004 Executive Coaching Seminar offers presentations on topics including changing the rules of the global game; the ethical challenge to U.S. business; and what's coachable,...

World business forum.(Events)(Calendar)
October 11, 2004... Nov. 17-18, Chicago Sponsor: The HSM Group Ltd. The conference includes political, academic and practical viewpoints from speakers including Jack Welch, Madeleine Albright and Larry Bossidy on leadership, organization, financial...

Development drop-down budgeting.(Management)
October 11, 2004... MANY COMPANIES are beginning to increase their budgets for new IT development. Unfortunately, they often underestimate ongoing production costs--the "drop-down" costs from development efforts. A realistic IT budget must plan for a project's...

Under the volcano.(PeopleSoft Inc.'s merger plan)
October 11, 2004... I'M SITTING HERE under the volcano, waiting. (OK, I'm not actually under Mount St. Helens. I'm some 40 miles away. But that's plenty close, thanks.) Some days, I can watch the volcano spit clouds of steam and ash thousands of feet into the sky,...

Where there's smoke ...(Shark Tank)
October 11, 2004... "I think my monitor is on fire!" user tells help desk pilot fish. Call the fire department, fish says immediately. "But can't you just come look at it?" user asks. "I don't see flames, but it went black and I smell smoke." Hang up and call the...

Users buoyed by monthly patch releases: Microsoft's approach makes process more predictable, execs say.(News)
October 18, 2004... Microsoft Corp.'s move to a monthly patch-release cycle one year ago this month has made it easier to install security updates for Windows and other products, IT managers said last week--even as they were greeted with a barrage of new fixes,...

IT scrambles to meet Sarb-Ox controls deadline: slow starts, miscommunication put companies under the gun on technology-related mandates.(News)(information technology)(Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
October 18, 2004... IT departments at many large companies are racing to document, remediate and test IT-related controls to meet a year-end reporting deadline for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. The rush is on because many companies failed to grasp the amount of...

Stretching your storage dollars; cost-effective strategies to help you cope with soaring demands.(Special Report)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
October 18, 2004... EDITOR'S NOTE LET'S TAKE IT BY THE NUMBERS: When Sage Research asked 104 executives which technology areas are the greatest sources of pain in their organizations, they ranked security No. 1 (no surprise there) and storage No. 2. Why...

Thrifty storage strategies: long-term planning is the ticket to big savings.(Knowledge Center Storage)
October 18, 2004... THERE ARE DOZENS of ways you can shave a little here and a little there when it comes to overall storage costs. But at the end of the day, storage is still going to be a whopping part of you budget. That's why companies that are serious about...

Long distance, short money: storage over IP provides a cheaper, faster alternative for data backup.(Knowledge Center Storage)
October 18, 2004... NATURAL DISASTERS and government regulations have put pressure on companies to back up data farther away from their main data centers than they do now, but achieving that goal can be pricey. Tape is one option, but it's slow to restore....

Second-hand savings; buying used storage equipment is cheaper, but riskier, than buying new gear.(Knowledge Center Storage)(Related Article: Stick With What You Know)(related Article: MARKET MEASURE)
October 18, 2004... AT ATA AIRLINES INC., the practice of buying refurbished storage systems started small, with the purchase of a work-group-size disk array. Over the past six years, the $1.2 billion airline bought more and more used storage equipment, including...

Grid storage.(Quick Study)(Related Article: The Grid Storage Difference)
October 18, 2004... DEFINITION Grid storage, analogous to grid computing, is a new model for deploying and managing storage distributed across multiple systems and networks, making efficient use of available storage capacity without requiring a large,...

The almanac: an eclectic collection of research and resources.(Knowledge Center Storage)
October 18, 2004... From the Labs: The Holographic Disc * OPTWARE CORP. in Japan (www.optware.co.jp/english) has come out with a prototype of what it calls the world's first holographic recording disc for reliable recording and playback of digital movies. The...

Long live tape.(Knowledge Center Storage)(Editorial)
October 18, 2004... I'VE BEEN HANGING AROUND THE RUMOR-MONGERING, low-cost disk drive crowd lately, so I started to think that their ATA drives are making tape obsolete. And when the information life-cycle management forces added their whispers about the improved...

Cisco, Microsoft bridge security gap.(At Deadline)(Brief Article)
October 18, 2004... CISCO SYSTEMS INC. and MICROSOFT CORP. today will announce a collaborative effort designed to bridge a divide between their emerging network access-control architectures. The two companies said on Friday that they have agreed to share...

IBM adds high-end, midrange disk arrays; performance, capacity boosted in first storage systems based on IBM chips.(News)(RELATED ARTICLE: IBM Storage Arrays)(TotalStorage DS8000)
October 18, 2004... IBM LAST WEEK unveiled two new enterprise-class disk arrays. One is aimed at the high end and one at midrange environments, but both have compatible software that allows the boxes to be managed through a single interface and data to be...

Starbucks taps HP for music download service.(News)
October 18, 2004... STARBUCKS CORP. last week said it will use hardware and software from Hewlett-Packard Co. to serve up a vast digital library of songs to customers along with its coffee. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Starbucks customers will be able to use...

Vendors upgrade development tools: IBM, Borland aim to bring business process automation to app design work.(News)
October 18, 2004... IBM and Borland Software Corp. last week separately brought out upgrades to their development tool lines that executives said add support for heterogeneous environments and more closely link software creation to business goals. IBM...

IBM to buy Systemcorp to bolster Rational line.(News)(Systemcorp ALG Ltd)(Brief Article)
October 18, 2004... IBM last week agreed to acquire Systemcorp ALG Ltd., a Montreal-based project portfolio management company, as part of a strategy of pushing business process-driven software development. IBM plans to fold System-corp's Web-based PMOffice...

Novell will defend open-source.(Briefs)(Brief Article)
October 18, 2004... Novell Inc. said it's prepared to use its patent portfolio to protect its open-source software against lawsuits. The company vowed to employ "the same measures generally used to defend proprietary software products" if other vendors claim that...

SCO to state case on new Web site.(Briefs)(SCO Group Inc)(Brief Article)
October 18, 2004... The SCO Group Inc. said it plans on Nov. 1 to launch a Web site devoted to its legal battles with Novell and other Linux backers. The www.prosco.net site will let SCO "tell our side of the story," CEO Darl McBride said at the ETRE conference in...

Cisco inks security deals with CA, IBM.(Briefs)(Computer Associates International Inc.)(Cisco Systems Inc)(Brief Article)
October 18, 2004... Computer Associates International Inc. said it plans to integrate its antivirus and antispyware tools with Cisco Systems Inc.'s Trust Agent software. Trust Agent, which is part of Cisco's Network Admission Control offering, works with...

Short takes.(Briefs)(Brief Article)
October 18, 2004... WAL-MART STORES INC. said it has expanded its data warehouse, which is based on NCR Corp.'s Teradata software. But it didn't disclose any details. (See related items at right.)... SAP AG upgraded its business applications for small and midsize...

Orange everywhere in October? Must be ...(On the Mark)
October 18, 2004... ... Halloween? Or maybe the Syracuse University Orange-men football team had arrived in Seattle to battle the University of Washington Huskies? Neither. The Washington State Convention and Trade Center was mobbed last week by 3,000 database and...

Offshoring fuels IT hiring boom in India: cost of services could increase as demand, wages rise.(News)
October 18, 2004... IN QUARTERLY financial-results reports released last week, offshore outsourcing firms in India detailed sharp increases in employee head count. But analysts said the growing demand for offshore services and workers is increasing wages in India,...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
October 18, 2004... A STORY ABOUT e-mail security appliances that ran in last week's News section ("Vendors Add Weapons to Battle E-mail Viruses") incorrectly listed the amount of venture capital funding raised by Avinti Inc. The Lindon, Utah-based company has...

BMC integrates tools for IT, business management.(News)
October 18, 2004... BMC Software Inc. last week announced plans to integrate a variety of its systems management tools with a product that lets users track how IT problems affect individual business processes. Houston-based BMC said an upgrade of its Service...

Intel shelves plans for 4-GHz Pentium.(Briefs)(Brief Article)
October 18, 2004... Intel Corp. said it no longer plans to release a 4-GHz version of its Pentium 4 processor, having decided instead to realign its engineers around new priorities such as the development of multicore chips. The 4-GHz Pentium 4 originally was due...

Sun reports Q1 loss on charges ...(Briefs)(Brief Article)
October 18, 2004... Sun Microsystems Inc. reported a loss for its first quarter, which ended Sept. 26. Sun said it would have had a $13 million profit if not for investment losses and restructuring and legal charges. Revenue was up 4% year over year but fell short...

... and ships JDS suite for Solaris.(Briefs)(Java Desktop System)(Brief Article)
October 18, 2004... Sun has released a version of its Java Desktop System software for the Solaris x86 operating system. The new release, which supports Sun's Opteron-based workstations, is the first version of the desktop software suite to run on Solaris instead...

Short takes.(Briefs)(Brief Article)
October 18, 2004... MICROSOFT CORP. today plans to release an upgrade of its Navision business applications that's more tightly integrated with products such as Excel and SQL Server. ... ORACLE CORP. urged users to apply database patches it issued in August,...

IBM adds 64-way pSeries, iSeries: targets server consolidation as Power5 achieves high-end performance levels.(News)
October 18, 2004... IBM LAST WEEK completed its lineup of servers based on its Power5 chips by adding high-end pSeries and iSeries models that can support up to 64 processors, double the previous threshold for CPUs. The systems are priced from $451,000 for an...

Business Objects takes next step on BI integration.(Business Intelligence)
October 18, 2004... Business Objects SA last week began shipping a beta version of a business intelligence software upgrade that expands the ties between its data analysis tools and the reporting technology that the company acquired when it bought Crystal...