Computerworld articles from October 2008

Computerworld archives from October 2008

Asperger's oxymoron.(EDITOR'S NOTE)(Editorial)
October 6, 2008... NO STORY we've done in the past six months has resonated more with readers than our May 5 cover story, "IT's Open Secret." The article was about the preponderance of people with varying degrees of Asperger's syndrome in the IT profession, and...

ISPs and your privacy.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
October 6, 2008... I think that University of Colorado law professor Paul Ohm's quote in your story about his study points out how his warnings about privacy loss on the Internet are overblown ["Do ISPs Pose a Bigger Online Privacy Threat Than Google?" Sept. 15]...

Infrastructure, people and the Premier 100.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
October 6, 2008... I always find Don Tennant's columns interesting and insightful, but never has one been more sensitive or real than "Context of Collapse" [Editor's Note, Sept. 22]. He is right--it is the people who count. They are and will continue to be...

The week ahead.(Brief article)(Calendar)
October 6, 2008... MONDAY: Microsoft's Business Intelligence Conference, focusing on the vendor's own BI products, opens in Seattle. MONDAY: AFCOM, a professional association for data center managers, kicks off its fall Data Center World conference in...

Schwarzenegger again nixes data breach bill.(SECURITY)(Arnold Schwarzenegger )(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... FOR THE second time in 12 months, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last week vetoed legislation that would have required retailers and other businesses operating in the state to take a series of steps to protect credit and debit card data....

Ballmer says 'Windows Cloud' is coming soon.(DEVELOPMENT)(Steve Ballmer )(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... MICROSOFT CORP. CEO Steve Ballmer last week revealed some details of a new operating system aimed at helping developers write Internet-based applications. The operating system, known as Windows Cloud, will be formally unveiled within a...

Computer failure hobbles NASA's Hubble Telescope.(HARDWARE)
October 6, 2008... A COMPUTER FAILURE onboard the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope has forced NASA to postpone this month's space shuttle Atlantis mission, which was set to do scheduled repairs on the observatory. John Shannon, shuttle program manager at the...

California.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... California has became the second state to pass legislation making it illegal to steal data from RFID cards. Those found guilty of doing so face a year in jail and fines of up to $1,500.

Hewlett-Packard Co. has agreed to buy Left-Hand Networks Inc. for $360 million.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Hewlett-Packard Co. has agreed to buy Left-Hand Networks Inc. for $360 million. Through the transaction, HP will acquire Left-Hand's storage virtualization and iSCSI products for midsize companies. The deal is expected to close in January.

Microsoft Corp.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Microsoft Corp. has unveiled the next version of its Visual Studio development tool suite and upgrades to its Visual Studio Team System collaborative offering. The new Visual Studio 2010 will replace the current release at an as-yet-undisclosed...

Oracle Corp. has agreed to buy Advanced Visual Technology Ltd., a maker of applications for retailers, for an undisclosed sum.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Oracle Corp. has agreed to buy Advanced Visual Technology Ltd., a maker of applications for retailers, for an undisclosed sum. Oracle plans to combine AVT's space-planning software with its Oracle Retail suite.

House Web site deluged with e-mail on bailout.(NETWORKING)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... THE IT STAFF at the U.S. House of Representatives took emergency steps last week in an effort to help the House's Web site handle a fourfold increase in e-mail that began after the text of the initial Wall Street bailout bill was posted online....

Grid leads sysadmin to 13m-digit prime number.(HARDWARE)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... AN IT systems administrator used a grid of computers supplied by volunteers at the University of California, Los Angeles, to find the largest known prime number. The discovery of the 13-million-digit number earns UCLA employee Edson Smith...

Between the lines.(Cartoon)
October 6, 2008... IN THIS TIME OF ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY WE WANT TO MAITE CLEAR HOW I.T. BUDGETS WILL CONTINUE TO BE IMPORTANT TO US. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THROW ON ANOTHER ONE

Microsoft Corp.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Microsoft Corp. released a free version of its Hyper-V virtualization sotfware, matching rival VMware Inc.'s move to give away its ESXi technology in July.

Amazon.com.Inc.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Amazon.com.Inc. said it will add Windows Server support to its Elastic Copute Cloud online hosting service by year's end. Currently, EC2 supports only Linux.

25 years ago.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... 25 YEARS AGO: As a precursor to the breakup of AT&T at the end of 1983, tape was laid on the floors of switching offices to separate the company's workers and equipment from those of its local telephone affiliates.

Funding set for U.K. e-crime unit.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... LONDON-The U.K. government last week finally committed funding to a national e-crime unit, a year after it was proposed by England's Metropolitan Police Service. To fund the program for three years, the government will provide [pound...

Indian outsourcers bid for U.K. SAP services firm.(Global Dispatches)(HCL Technologies Ltd. and Axon Group PLC)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... NOIDA, India - HCL Technologies Ltd. has outbid outsoureing rival Infosys Technologies Ltd. for Axon Group PLC, an Egham, England-based provider of SAP-related services. HCL, based here, late last month offered [pound sterling]441.1...

Briefly noted.(Global Dispatches)(Nokia Corp. to acquire Oz Communications Inc.)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Nokia Corp. last week agreed to acquire Montreal-based mobile messaging company Oz Communications Inc. for an undisclosed price. At the close of the deal, expected in the fourth quarter, Oz will become part of Espoo, Finland-based Nokia's...

Oracle tries to step up on high-end databases: the database market leader is pushing several new technologies in an effort to make its software more scalable. But are users ready for what it's offering?(NEWS ANALYSIS)
October 6, 2008... SINCE 2005, Oracle Corp. has spent at least $32 billion on acquisitions--turning itself into the vendor of a top-to-bottom enterprise software stack that is arguably broader in scope than any rival suite. In doing so, Oracle hasn't diluted...

Mum's the word on 11g upgrade plans.(NEWS ANALYSIS)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... ORACLE FILLED the Open-World conference schedule with sessions hyping the various features in its 11g database, which was launched in July 2007. But it didn't disclose any details about an upcoming second release of the database. Charles...

Wall Street's collapse puts IT spending in (some) peril: the turmoil in the financial markets isn't expected to lead to a tech-spending recession. But budgets may be in for some paring.(NEWS ANALYSIS)
October 6, 2008... THE OVERALL economic cost of Wall Street's collapse has yet to be totaled. But it's clear that IT departments will be laboring under some changed conditions in the months ahead. Despite the turmoil in the financial markets, consulting firms...

The project management expert talks about sugar surge protectors, junk-food walls and his biggest project: turning IT green from the inside out.(THE GRILL)(Interview)
October 6, 2008... The IT community has known you for years as the founder and president of the Center for Project Management, but your avocation has to do with food. Is there an IT connection? Having a long-term interest in cooking and nutrition, I have keenly...

Peering behind the cloud.(OPINION)
October 6, 2008... CLOUD COMPUTING is at its peak of hype. In fact, it's probably about to jump the shark. Savvy enterprise IT managers know there's little reason to embrace cloud this early in its development. But, in fact, you should jump into some aspect...

Virtual headaches: storage virtualization is hot and for good reason. But its benefits bring layers of complexity.(SPECIAL REPORT)
October 6, 2008... THERE'S AN AGE-OLD CHOICE in IT--whether to adopt a "best of breed" strategy for the power and flexibility it can bring, or go with a single vendor for accountability and simplicity. J. Craig Venter Institute Inc. (JCVI) believes in best of...

Your own virtualization flight test: five questions to ask before launching a storage virtualization project.(SPECIAL REPORT)
October 6, 2008... NASA's Infrared Processing and Analysis Center wasn't shooting for the stars when it turned to virtualization to meet its storage needs. IPAC's cash-strapped effort to record images of our universe--up to 30 million objects captured each night...

Storage virtualization: maximizing the benefits of pooled storage.(QUICKSTUDY)
October 6, 2008... MANAGING DISK storage was once simple: If we needed more space, we got a bigger disk drive. But data storage needs grew, so we started adding multiple disk drives. Finding and managing these became harder and took more time, so we developed...

The virtual mind-set: storage staffers can make the leap to managing virtual environments, but not without targeted training.(SPECIAL REPORT)
October 6, 2008... As COMPANIES are diving deeper into virtualized storage projects, IT managers are getting a better understanding of the staff skills they need to make those projects succeed. The exact talents required depend on the type of storage...

Three degrees of storage virtualization.(OPINION)
October 6, 2008... SURVEY AFTER SURVEY indicates that interest in and adoption of storage virtualization is increasing. But I cringe a bit when I see those surveys, because it's often impossible to determine what the numbers really tell us How does each...

The CIO at Golden Gate University in San Francisco answers questions related to the challenges of a new boss and pursuing a graduate degree.(ASK A PREMIER 100 IT LEADER)
October 6, 2008... When my boss retired earlier this year, someone from the outside was brought in. She operates very differently. Where my old boss liked to pick the staff's brains and foster discussion, our new manager gets ideas of her own and isn't interested...

The reporting report.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... One-third of CIOs or the most-senior IT decision-makers report to the CEO, according to Forrester Research Inc. The overall rate of 34% rises to 46% for those in business services, and drops to 24% for those in the public sector (where CEOs are...

SharkTank: true tales of it life as told to Sharky.
October 6, 2008... Urgent, Redefined Pilot fish has the on-call pager for the weekend, but he wants to spend some time with a friend who is having some problems, so he arranges for a co-worker to cover for him. "Pager goes off at 6 a.m. Saturday," groans...

Target: you.(FRANKLY SPEAKING)(Column)
October 6, 2008... HEARD ABOUT a competitor's security being breached? Then you're probably next. In fact, you may already be owned. That's the logical conclusion to draw from a new report from Verizon's security services group (you can download it at...

Elusiveness of joy.(Free Software Foundation)(dialogue with Richard Stallman)(Interview)(Editorial)
October 13, 2008... THE COLUMN I wrote last week, titled "Asperger's Oxymoron," offended some readers because of my contention that the contributions that Aspies can make to society are necessarily undermined by the degree to which they are withdrawn from society....

Security efforts need widespread support.(Letter to the editor)
October 13, 2008... I read J.F. Rice's Sept. 22 Security Manager's Journal, "Making Enemies, but Needing Allies," with great empathy. In my experience, making change internally is almost impossible unless you can identify SWIFT--Specifically What's In It For Them....

Let web 2.0 transform business apps.(Letter to the editor)
October 13, 2008... Computerworld's Sept. 1 Spotlight on business intelligence provided insight into the potential of Web 2.0 to revolutionize usability of business applications. Until organizations can provide business users with applications that are as easy to...

The week ahead.(briefs)(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... MONDAY: Computerworld's fall Storage Networking World conference opens in Dallas. Gartner's Symposium/ITxpo 2008 also starts today, in Orlando. TUESDAY: Microsoft plans to issue 11 software updates-four rated critical-as part of its...

Struggling AMD spins off its fab operations.(HARDWARE)(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Intel Corp.)(Advanced Technology Investment Co.)
October 13, 2008... ADVANCED MICRO Devices Inc.'s move to spin off its manufacturing operations generated praise from analysts and questions from Intel Corp. about whether it violates a cross-licensing agreement between the two companies. Sunnyvale,...

Windows XP users get six more months.(SOFTWARE)(Microsoft Corp.)(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... MICROSOFT CORP, has thrown another lifeline to Windows XP users, extending by six months its cutoff date for stopping shipments of the seven-year-old operating system to PC vendors. Hardware makers that offer " downgrades" from Windows...

SAP says Q3 sales hit by crisis in financial markets.(IT SPENDING)(Financial report)(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... SAP AG last week warned that its third-quarter financial results will be below expectations because of a sales drop-off in late September--a surprise occurrence that the software vendor blamed on the turmoil in the world's financial markets....

Sun Microsystems Inc.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... * Sun Microsystems Inc. today plans to introduce a four-socket midrange server based on its Ultra-Sparc T2 Plus processor. The Sparc Enterprise T5440 supports up to 32 processor cores and is priced from $44,995.

Oracle Corp.(Short Takes)(Primavera Systems Inc.)(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... * Oracle Corp. agreed to purchase Primavera Systems Inc., a maker of project portfolio management software, for an undisclosed sum. Primavera will be part of a new Oracle business unit headed by Primavera CEO Joel Koppelman.

Symantec Corp.(Short Takes)(MessageLabs Ltd.)(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... * Symantec Corp. has agreed to pay $695 million to buy MessageLabs Ltd, a U.K. provider of hosted filtering services for spam and Web traffic. The offering will be added to Symantec's Protection Network of hosted back-up, data restoration and...

Teradata Corp.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... * Teradata Corp. today is set to unveil Version 13 of its namesake decision-support database, along with a data warehousing appliance that company officials said can handle up to 50 petabytes of data.

Feds find high level of fraud in H-1B petitions.(HIRING AND RECRUITING)(United States. Citizenship and Immigration Services)(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... A recent review of 246 H-1B visa applications by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) found that 21% contained fraudulent information or "technical violations" of federal laws and regulations. The violation rate was even...

UPS tests devices that keep track of truck data.(HARDWARE)(United Parcel Service of America Inc.)(Motorola Inc.)(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... UNITED PARCEL Service Inc. is testing a new ruggedized mobile computer in its trucks that can wirelessly log departure and arrival times and provide managers with data on vehicle speed and idle times. Test versions of Motorola Inc.'s VC6096...

Between the lines.(Cartoon)
October 13, 2008... WE PLAN to DEMOCRATIZE BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE. FIRST, WE STUFF THE BALLOT BOX... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Brocade Communications Systems Inc.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Foundry Networks Inc.)(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Despite tightened credit markets. Brocade Communications Systems Inc secured a $1.1billion loan needed to help fund its $3billion acquisition of Foundry Networks Inc.

IBM.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... IBM launched an open beta release of Bluehouse, a Web-based service that combines social networking and online collaboration tools for business uses.

20 years ago: NeXT Computer Inc.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... 20 YEARS AGO: NeXT Computer Inc., founded by Steve Jobs after he temporarily left Apple, unveiled its first workstation. The cube-shaped system was a commercial bust, though.

Bull acquires german computer maker for [euro]26M.(Science + Computing AG)(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... LES CLAYES-SOUS-BOIS, FRANCE - Bull SA last week agreed to buy Science + Computing AG, a maker of high-performance computers, for an undisclosed sum. Bull CEO Didier Lamouche called the acquisition a key piece of the company's three-year...

Toshiba plans for fuel-cell launch.(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... TOKYO - Toshiba Corp. last week said it plans to unveil before March 31 its first commercial direct-methanol fuel-cell device, which offers fast recharges of portable electronic devices. Toshiba wouldn't identify the product to be unveiled...

Briefly noted.(International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... IBM this month announced plans to open a [pounds sterling]2 million (S3.4 million) data center in Greenock, Scotland, early next year to manage and run IT operations for midsize businesses. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Jeremy Kirk, IDG...

Solid state not yet on solid ground: but some companies could find a strong ROI despite the high price tag, analysts say.(return on investment)
October 13, 2008... COMPANIES are slowly starting to more closely evaluate solid-state storage technologies, though most are still waiting for the cost to come down before implementing it. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Several users interviewed recently agreed...

Microsoft looks to unlock door to wider BI use; Its new plan: scale up SQL Server to support larger data warehouses, and use Excel to spread business intelligence to more users.(NEWS ANALYSIS)(business intelligence)
October 13, 2008... SQL SERVER may be one of the most popular databases among corporate users, but Microsoft Corp. is a relative laggard in the business intelligence market. It ranked just fifth among BI vendors last year, according to market research firm IDC....

Steven Rambam: The private eye talks about what he does, how he knows everything about you and why he's not the one you should be worried about.(THE GRILL)(Interview)
October 13, 2008... In this 25 years in business, Steven Rambam has worked on some high-profile cases, including tracking down Nazi war criminals in Canada. He also owns PallTech (www.pallorium.com/PallTech.html), an investigative database service with more than...

High-performance nonsense: quiz time. Get out your No. 2 computers and answer the following question: for the fastest and most reliable high-end computing for your enterprise, will your operating system be 1) Linux, 2) Solaris, 3) OpenVMS or 4) Windows?(OPINION)(Microsoft Corp.)(Viewpoint essay)
October 13, 2008... OK, put your mice down. If you answered Linux, give yourself 10 points; Solaris, 9 points; OpenVMS, 8 points; Windows--pardon me, what are you doing in this class? Remedial IT is down the hall. Just listen for the chorus of "Are you Sure your...

The trouble with telecommuting: telework can change office dynamics in ways you hadn't anticipated. Here are six questions to ask before you say yes.(COVER STORY)
October 13, 2008... TELECOMMUTING is back on workers' radars in a big way these days, thanks to gas prices that were a whopping 30% higher this summer than last. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Telecommuter wannabes are linning up outside their bosses' offices...

The creativity conundrum: you can't manage creativity, but you can manage for it. Here's how.(dialogue with Mukti Khaire)(Interview)
October 13, 2008... Recently, a two-day colloquium at Harvard Business School brought together business leaders from innovative companies such as Google, EInk, Novartis and Ideo to discuss creativity in organizations. In this month's Harvard Business Review, Mukti...

When the watchdog is the underdog: in data security, many of the toughest challenges have nothing to do with the bad guys.(SECURITY)
October 13, 2008... THINK your security staffers are trust-worthy? Competent? Knowledgeable? Listen to a security professional's horror stories, and you might think again. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Here's one from Kevin McDonald, executive vice president at...

Patching program still under fire: having allies on the business side helps, but the sysadmins who will do the work remain unconvinced.(J.F. RICE)(Viewpoint essay)
October 13, 2008... My situation rapidly went downhill after I started talking about the need to proactively manage the vulnerabilities on our systems. My peers-other leaders in IT at this company-are threatened by my open approach to change and by being put in...

Experience: what's it really worth?(OPINION)(Viewpoint essay)
October 13, 2008... MANAGERS SEEM to have mixed feelings about experience, but you wouldn't know it from reading a typical job advertisement. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Most of them read like a laundry list of required educational experience, managerial...

Cheryl Cran: the author of control freak revolution and president of synthesis at Work Inc. explains why she believes control freaks can make the best leaders.(Q & A)(Interview)(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... "Control freak" is a pejorative in the English language. How do you see this character trait as a positive? You are right. "Control freak" has always been used in negative terms. I say that there are positive elements to being a control freak....

The aging workforce.(Career Watch)(Statistical table)(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... THE AGING WORKFORCE Median age of the labor force by sex, race and ethnicity, with projections for 2016 1986 1996 2006 2016 ALL WORKERS 35.4 38.3 40.8 42.1 Men 35.7 38.3...

Tracking the class of' 93.(Career Watch)(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... TEN YEARS AFTER graduation, members of the class of 1993 with a degree in computer science had been at the same job an average of about six years. That's longer than any of the other categories of degree-holders that were looked at in a study...

The replacements.(Career Watch)(Survey)(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... 82% Percentage of CIOs who say they expect their replacements to be from within their companies' ranks. 38% Percentage who say their companies have a formal succession plan in place for the CIO position. SOURCE: CDW IT MONITOR SURVEY...

True tales of it life as told to Sharky.(SharkTank)
October 13, 2008... No Change User can't get her new company-issued laptop to work at home--moving the network cable from her home PC to the laptop doesn't get her an IP address, and the company help desk can't figure it out. So this pilot fish who's the...

Let's Get Visible.(FRANKLY SPEAKING)
October 13, 2008... THINK VOLATILITY is confined to the stock market? Of course you don't--that wild ride is now the defining theme of business for the foreseeable future. That means all bets are off when it comes to IT budgets, IT projects and how much...

A dimension lost.(Editorial)
October 20, 2008... LAST WEEK, I had the good fortune of coming across a column written by Kip Layton Jr., a school administrator in the tiny, remote village of Eek, Alaska. It wasn't fortunate simply by virtue of the entertainment I derive from being able to...

We have to be able to verify votes.(Letter to the editor)
October 20, 2008... I'm with Sharon Machlis 1,000% on her e-voting column ["Let's Impeach E-voting," Sept. 8]. I have served as an election judge for 34 years, starting out with the huge mechanical lever-pull machines. Our county moved to the paper ballot with...

The human touch.(Letter to the editor)
October 20, 2008... I wanted to thank Don Tennant. In writing about Sara O'Neill of Lehman Brothers, he added a human touch to the situation storming around us all ["Context of Collapse," Editor's Note, Sept. 22]. While we are all participants in the business...

A School to Watch?(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
October 20, 2008... I read with interest your article "IT Schools to Watch" [Aug.18]. Thanks for a well-done piece! By definition, such listings cannot cover everything. Still, I was disappointed that our pioneering new-media grad program was not mentioned....

The week ahead.(Brief article)(Calendar)
October 20, 2008... MONDAY: ARMA International, an association for records managers, begins its 53rd annual conference in Las Vegas. TUESDAY: Apple, Yahoo and VMware are all scheduled to report their financial results for the most recent quarter. TUESDAY:...

Microsoft, Oracle get busy plugging security holes.(SECURITY)
October 20, 2008... MICROSOFT CORP. and Oracle Corp. each dropped a bevy of software patches on their users last Tuesday, with Microsoft issuing 11 updates to plug a total of 20 security holes and Oracle releasing 36 separate fixes. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Gartner sees possible job cuts, freezes.(MANAGEMENT)(Brief article)
October 20, 2008... Gartner Inc. began its Symposium/ITxpo 2008 conference in Orlando last week with a grim parade of recommendations related to the economic downturn. How grim? No. 1 on the consulting firm's list of what IT execs should prepare for were hiring...

D.C. gives Google Apps a spot at desktop table.(SOFTWARE)(District of Columbia)
October 20, 2008... FOR VIVEK KUNDRA, an experience on one of the most harrowing days in U.S. history turned out to be a driving force behind his decision--seven years later--to embrace Google Apps as a possible alternative to Office for municipal workers in the...

Google Inc.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
October 20, 2008... * A problem with Google Inc.'s Gmail service left some users unable to access their e-mail for about 30 hours last week. The glitch was first reported on Wednesday afternoon and wasn't fixed until late Thursday. Google said that only "a small...

Google Apps.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
October 20, 2008... * Separately, some systems administrators complained in a discussion forum that their Google Apps portal pages were malfunctioning-apparently after a software update by Google. A Google worker posted a message Thursday night saying the glitch...

SAP AG.(Short Takes)(Oracle Corp.)(TomorrowNow Inc.)(Brief article)
October 20, 2008... * SAP AG asked a federal judge in California to throw out some of the claims in an unfair-competition lawsuit that Oracle Corp. filed against SAP and its TomorrowNow Inc. subsidiary last year. Oracle declined to comment.

Novell Inc.(Short Takes)(Managed Objects Inc.)(Brief article)
October 20, 2008... * Novell Inc. said that it plans to buy Managed Objects Inc., a developer of business service management software, for an undisclosed price.

Teradata goes to 'extreme' lengths on data analysis.(BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE)(Brief article)
October 20, 2008... AT ITS USER conference last week, Teradata Corp. announced products designed to keep it out in front in the high-end data warehousing race, including an appliance that can store up to 50 petabytes of data in massively parallel grids. The...

Cisco takes TelePresence technology to public places.(NETWORKING & INTERNET)(Brief article)
October 20, 2008... CISCO SYSTEMS INC. last week said its Tele-Presence high-end videoconferencing technology is now available for use on a rental basis at a Cisco facility in California and at hotels in Boston, London and two cities in India. Rooms equipped...

Between the lines.(Cartoon)
October 20, 2008... WALL ST. Rish Management Tools DO YOU HAVE ANY GREED MANAGEMENT TOOLS? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]