Baseline articles from April 2007

Baseline archives from April 2007

SOA Software Teams with JBoss for Open-Source SOA.
April 2, 2007... SOA Software Inc. has announced that it is partnering with Red Hat Inc. to promote the shift to simple, open and affordable service-oriented architecture solutions for the enterprise. Los Angeles-based SOA Software, a provider of SOA and...

Entry-Level Workers Head into a Mixed Market.
April 2, 2007... Signifying a confident incoming workforce, 89 percent of prospective graduates said that they expect to receive at least one job offer when they graduate, while 74 percent expect two or more offers, which is 10 percent more than last year,...

Infor Snags Workbrain for Work Force Management.
April 2, 2007... Infor, a company that's built itself into the world's third largest enterprise resource planning software company through acquisitions, announced April 2 that it has acquired another company: Workbrain. Under the terms of the deal, Infor...

AJAX Apps Ripe Targets for JavaScript Hijacking.
April 2, 2007... Fortify Software has documented what the security firm is calling a "pervasive and critical" vulnerability in Web 2.0 applications--specifically, in the ability of an attacker to use a JavaScript vulnerability to steal critical data by...

IBM Fixes Flaw in Tivoli Provisioning Manager.
April 3, 2007... IBM has patched multiple flaws in its Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment that allowed attackers to crash the service or execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM priviledges. Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment is a network...

Texas Sues RadioShack After Retailer Dumps Thousands of Customer Records.
April 3, 2007... Texas is suing RadioShack after the retailer's employees dumped thousands of customer records in garbage bins behind a store near Corpus Christi, Texas, on March 21. The records contained Social Security numbers, credit and debit card...

IBM Expands CICS for the Mainframe.
April 4, 2007... IBM is expanding its mainframe offerings with the latest version of its CICS Transaction Server application, which looks to offer additional Web services and manageability features for service-oriented architecture. On April 4, IBM will...

Enterprises Gain Low-Cost Online Backup Option.
April 4, 2007... Following a highly successful word-of-mouth entrance into the market, online data backup provider Berkeley Data Systems officially launched April 3 a business-oriented version of Mozy, its hosted storage service. The MozyPro remote backup...

Year's Supply of H-1B Visas Tapped Out on Day One.
April 4, 2007... Breaking yet another record of H-1B visa depletion, the entire supply of specialized-occupation temporary worker visas for the 2008 fiscal year were exhausted the first day they were available, the USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration...

Enterprise SOA Adoption to Double in Next Two Years.
April 4, 2007... According to a new Evans Data Corp. study, enterprise adoption of service-oriented architecture is expected to double over the next two years. Evans Data's recently released Corporate Development Issues Survey showed that nearly one-fourth...

Is the Internet Ready to Break?
April 4, 2007... Predictions of the Internet's imminent demise have been around almost as long as public interest in the net itself. But lately there's been something of a bull market in doom and gloom. Is it time to panic? Probably not. According to a...

Stratus, Double-Take Offer New Disaster Recovery Services.(Stratus Technologies Inc., Double-Take Software )(Brief article)
April 5, 2007... Stratus Technologies and Double-Take Software announced April 3 that they have released a new set of disaster recovery services that will help enterprises to protect and recover important business applications from outages, natural disasters...

Software AG Buys WebMethods for $546M.
April 5, 2007... Software AG has announced that it will acquire WebMethods in a deal worth $546 million. Software AG is Europe's largest systems software and SOA (service-oriented architecture) software provider; WebMethods also focuses on SOA and...

Yahoo Patches IM Vulnerability.
April 5, 2007... Yahoo has patched a buffer overflow vulnerability in its instant-messaging tool that would have enabled attackers to potentially execute code on a compromised machine. The flaw exists in an ActiveX control that is part of the Yahoo...

SUSE Linux Now Available on Sun x64 Workstations.
April 5, 2007... It sounds unlikely, but Novell and Sun Microsystems have partnered to bring SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 to Sun's Ultra Workstations: the Sun Ultra 20, Ultra 20 M2, Ultra 40, and Ultra 40 M2. These workstations are powered by AMD...

Cisco's Chambers Ruminates on the Future.
April 5, 2007... LAS VEGAS--Cisco CEO John Chambers spent some time with reporters at Cisco's Partner Summit here to answer questions and learn from their questions. There were several interesting nuggets that came out of the sessions. Among them was an...

The Final 'Final' Nail in WEP's Coffin?(Wired Equivalent Privacy)
April 5, 2007... Researchers have discovered a new way of attacking Wired Equivalent Privacy that requires an amount of data "more than an order of magnitude" less than the best known key-recovery attacks. In effect, the cracking can be done within a minute, as...

5 Questions for Software AG Dealmaker Matt Durham.(Interview)
April 6, 2007... In February, German systems integration specialist Software AG revealed it had set aside a war chest of $920 million for acquiring companies that could expand its product offerings and customer base. Matt Durham, the company's Reston, Va.-based...

Taking the Lead.(IT professionals who demonstrate that innovative leadership)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Since the beginning of the decade, the ranks of IT management in the U.S. have swelled by 75 percent, to more than 400,000 men and women. Many of these managers are low- and mid-level administrators, a mostly faceless lot who carry out policies...

4 I.T. Managers Leading From The Middle.(information technology mangers)(Brennon Marcano, Jun Ying, Sandy Aronson and Max Mancini)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Since the beginning of the decade, the ranks of IT management in the U.S. have swelled by 75 percent, to more than 400,000 men and women. Many of these managers are low- and mid-level administrators, a mostly faceless lot who carry out policies...

Judgment Call.
April 7, 2007... Warren Bennis has studied leadership as much as any person on this planet. The 82-year-old distinguished professor of business administration and founding chairman of the Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California has led...

Succession Planning: Cultivating the Next CIO.
April 7, 2007... Chubb Corp. CEO John D. Finnegan didn't need a report such as the one from the Society for Information Management to realize the $14 billion insurer should be grooming its next top tech leader from within its own ranks. Two years ago, when the...

Unequal Pay for Equal Experience.
April 7, 2007... Top I.T. executives at small and midsize companies are much less likely to have business cards that say "CIO" than their peers at organizations with revenues topping $500 million. But in other ways, the two groups are not very different. They...

Exploiting I.T.'s Hidden Assets.
April 7, 2007... New technologies and globalization are forcing executives to devise new business strategies. In Unstoppable, Chris Zook, author of Profit from the Core and Beyond the Core, and head of Bain & Co.'s global strategy practice, argues that new...

AMD Sees Revenue Shortfall, Cuts Spending Plans.
April 9, 2007... SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)--Advanced Micro Devices said on April 9 that quarterly revenue would fall short of Wall Street expectations by about 20 percent, but the microprocessor maker's shares rose after it promised to slash this year's capital...

Debian 4.0 Finally Arrives.(Debian released Debian GNU/Linux Version 4.0 operating system)(Brief article)
April 9, 2007... At long last, the Debian project team released Debian GNU/Linux Version 4.0--code-named Etch--on April 8. The release follows "21 months of constant development," according to the team. This anxiously awaited update will benefit not only...

Data Security: 7 Steps for 2007.
April 9, 2007... More than 25% of the critical data held by Fortune 1,000 companies is flawed-- inaccurate, incomplete or duplicated, according to a release issued by Gartner last month. But what is perhaps more shocking than knowing that a quarter of all...

Security Case: What Are Your Employees Doing at Work?
April 9, 2007... The Problem: A regional bank needs to know how employees are handling confidential information--such as Social Security numbers--and if the information is safe after they've touched it. The Details: Banks have done a pretty good job of...

Microsoft ANI Patch Causes Problems with Third-Party Apps.
April 9, 2007... Microsoft has issued a hotfix for users of Windows XP SP2 experiencing problems with third-party programs. Last Tuesday's out-of-cycle MS07-017 update was Microsoft's answer to a number of vulnerabilities, including the Windows ANI bug....

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5: Some Assembly Required.
April 9, 2007... Version 5 of Red Hat's Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system hit the streets last month, complete with a truckload of updated open-source components and brand-new support for server virtualization--courtesy of the Xen hypervisor project....

New Salesforce Tools Aim to Manage Workers' Content.
April 10, 2007... SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)--Salesforce.com Inc. introduced software on Monday that allows business customers to more easily manage and share documents, e-mail and videos, much as they do on Web sites like YouTube and Gmail. Salesforce Content...

Users React to Debian 4.
April 10, 2007... Now that Debian 4.0, Etch, has finally arrived, what do people make of it? Out in the blogosphere, some users like it. Over at Jed's Sandbox, this Gentoo Linux user finds that "Debian is stable, period." Other users are also excited...

IBM Aims System i Servers at Small Companies.
April 10, 2007... CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--IBM is looking to use its System i platform to get a foothold among the smallest of businesses, a market traditionally dominated by x86 servers running Microsoft Windows applications. At an event here April 10, IBM...

Oracle Update to Fix 37 Security Flaws.
April 11, 2007... Oracle plans to release patches to plug 37 security holes in its products next week, according to a preview of the upcoming Critical Patch Update released April 10. The update will be made available April 17 and will include 13 security...

Facebook Unveils New Site Design amid Growth Surge.
April 11, 2007... SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)--Facebook, which has enjoyed explosive growth relative to rival social networking sites since a membership crisis six months ago, is set to unveil new features on Wednesday that mark its progress from a dating site for...

There's History and Money in Obsolete Computers.(Sellam Ismail )
April 11, 2007... LIVERMORE, Calif. (Reuters)--In the first purchase of his collection, Sellam Ismail loaded the trunk of his car with old computers he stumbled upon at a flea market for $5 apiece. Soon he had filled his three-car garage with what others would...

Moonwalk Releases Data Management Suite, Sans Middleware.
April 11, 2007... Moonwalk, an Australia-based creator of what it calls "all-inclusive data management and protection software," made its U.S. debut April 11 with the introduction of its Moonwalk 6.0 software suite. Moonwalk's software uses no middleware,...

IBM Rolls Out Low-Power Servers.
April 12, 2007... IBM is looking to offer customers a way of reducing power consumption in the data center by offering System x and BladeCenter systems with low-watt Intel and Advanced Micro Devices processors. At the BladeSystems Insight conference April 12...

Vonage's CEO Snyder Steps Down.
April 12, 2007... NEW YORK--Internet phone company Vonage Holdings Corp. said on Thursday that its Chief Executive Officer Michael Snyder stepped down and that it would cut costs amid growing worries about its future after setbacks in a patent lawsuit by Verizon...

The Forensic Felons: The Next Generation of Cyber Thieves.(Brief article)
April 13, 2007... For years, retailers have been told that if they merely abide by common sense security procedures--don't permit obvious passwords, check audit logs regularly and patch software immediately--they'd be in good security shape. Although there...

E-Commerce Credit Card Alternatives Take Off.
April 13, 2007... Some of the largest e-commerce chains have suddenly started to embrace nontraditional payment methods, with one analyst group finding a 267 percent increase in such acceptance in four months. The survey was completed by e-commerce...

Tech Pros Fret over Their Business Skills.
April 13, 2007... A surprising number of tech professionals are insecure about their business skills, concerned that they don't have the necessary career skills to make the leap from the cubicle to a corner office, finds a monthly outlook on the IT job market...

Report: CIOs, Stop Squandering Your Time.
April 13, 2007... To add more value to their work, CIOs should stop defining services in technical rather than business terms and should spend less time policing budget priorities, business research firm Gartner advised in a report released April 5. Most...

Intel May Have Upper Hand in Processor War, for Now.
April 13, 2007... SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)--What a difference a year has made in the microprocessor industry. Intel Corp., the world's largest chipmaker, had been losing market share to rival AMD, but is now believed by analysts to have stemmed losses or...

Nortel Duels with Cisco over VOIP for SMBs.
April 16, 2007... On the heels of Cisco Systems' launch of new integrated networking products for small businesses, Nortel Networks will follow suit on April 16 with its new My Business campaign. Both companies in their respective small-business initiatives...

The Drive for Data Protection.
April 16, 2007... Not finished with updating your organization's payroll for the day? No problem--just save the documents to a USB thumb drive, drop the drive in your briefcase, stick it in one of your family PC's USB slots and finish up in the comfort of your...

Researchers: Botnets Getting Beefier.
April 16, 2007... Think botnets are bad now? We ain't seen nothin' yet. A select group of some 40 security researchers gathered on April 10 in the first Usenix event devoted to these networks of infected machines. The invitation-only event, called HotBots,...

CA Offers New Database Performance Analysis Tool.(CA Insight Database Performance Monitor)
April 16, 2007... In a bid to unify database performance management, CA on April 16 introduced an advanced analysis and diagnostic tool for its database management product. Dubbed CA Insight Database Performance Monitor for Distributed Databases, the...

EMC Profit Rises with Software Sales; Shares Gain.(Financial report)
April 17, 2007... BOSTON--EMC Corp., the top maker of corporate data storage equipment, on Tuesday reported higher first-quarter profit, spurred by growth in software sales and its Asia business, sending its shares up 3 percent. Net income rose to $312.6...

I.T.'s Top 81 R&D Spenders.
April 17, 2007... The biggest technology companies have been pouring resources into product development, but don't look for a burst of innovative new business applications anytime soon. A lot of the industry's recent R&D spending has been on consumer...

Setting a Strategic Course.
April 17, 2007... What will you be doing in 2010? according to our latest annual study on the CIO's role, you will be busy creating strategy and exploring new ways to use information and emerging technologies. CIOs may still come primarily from IT's professional...

Oracle Head Outlines Application Integration Architecture.(Charles Phillips)
April 17, 2007... LAS VEGAS--Charles Phillips, Oracle's co-president, talked about promises--ones made last year and new ones announced this year. Phillips, during his April 16 keynote address here at the annual Oracle Application User Group conference,...

Debian 4.0 Tiptoes to Leading Edge.
April 17, 2007... Debian GNU/Linx is a popular Linux-based operating system with excellent software management tools and a development pace that is, depending on your perspective, saner or more plodding than those of its Linux distribution rivals. eWEEK...

Google Releases AJAX Feed API.
April 18, 2007... Google has released a new tool to help developers more easily access data feeds. The Google AJAX Feed API simplifies mashup creation for Web developers by providing easy access to public data feeds through JavaScript. Bret Taylor, group...

RIM Says Most N.A. BlackBerry Service Restored.(Research in Motion Ltd.)
April 18, 2007... TORONTO--Research In Motion Ltd. said on Wednesday that BlackBerry service had been restored to most users of the popular wireless e-mail device after an overnight service interruption hit customers across North America. The company said...

Michael Dell's Linux Choice? Ubuntu.
April 18, 2007... What operating system do the heads of Fortune 500 companies run on their personal laptops? In the case of Michael S. Dell, president and CEO of Dell, it's Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. Yes, the head of Dell, with a market-capitalization of...

A Night Without 'CrackBerry': Curse or Blessing?(mobile e-mail device's network service failure)(Brief article)
April 18, 2007... NEW YORK (Reuters)--Self-confessed BlackBerry addicts experienced both a sense of panic, and relief, as the mobile e-mail device's network stalled overnight and cut communications for many of its millions of subscribers. Nicknamed the...

Gartner Says HP No. 1 in Worldwide PC Shipments.
April 18, 2007... Hewlett-Packard is continuing to dominate the worldwide PC marketplace at the expense of its main rival, Dell, according to an April 18 report by Gartner. The report, similar to one released by IDC on April 18, showed that HP held its top...

Researcher: Tools Will Help Personalize ID Theft by 2010.
April 19, 2007... VANCOUVER, British Columbia--Hackers with scrounged-up data ask the same question as dogs who've caught the school bus: What do we do with it now? Roelof Temmingh has the answer, at least for rogue hackers, in the form of a framework that...

EMC Acquires Its Way to Juggernaut Status.
April 19, 2007... These days, EMC looks a little like the Energizer Bunny--it keeps going, and going, and going--seemingly unstoppable. Despite criticism from some of its investors and from industry analysts, EMC continues to keep the acquisitions coming....

Software Maker SAP's Sales Ease Investor Concern.
April 20, 2007... FRANKFURT, April 20 (Reuters)--SAP , the world's biggest business software maker, reported a 10 percent rise in first-quarter software licence sales to 564 million euros ($767 million) on Friday, allaying fears of a slowdown in its key U.S....

RIM: Software Upgrade Caused BlackBerry Failure.
April 20, 2007... BlackBerry maker Research In Motion announced late April 19 that it has determined the apparent cause of the shutdown that stopped e-mail service to BlackBerry users throughout North America earlier in the week. According to a statement...

Managed Linux Servers for Your Web Hosting Needs.
April 20, 2007... Web hosting company Verio chose a lucky day to introduce its new Linux-based managed private server offering for small businesses. The day before, April 17, Microsoft admitted that it doesn't have a fix for a serious security hole in its server...

SAP Brings Good Q1 News to Sapphire.
April 20, 2007... SAP reported its first quarter 2007 earnings April 20, highlighting a jump in profits. Net income for the quarter was $413 million, up from $282 million a year ago, and total revenue jumped 6 percent to $295 billion, in what turns out to be an...

Next Step: BizTalk.
April 23, 2007... Microsoft is enhancing its BizTalk Server integration platform with a new set of services, acting on the company's strategy of providing software and services as opposed to simply software as a service. As Microsoft faces increasing...

USDA Cuts Number Affected by Data Exposure.(United States. Department of Agriculture)
April 23, 2007... The U.S. Department of Agriculture narrowed the number of people whose personal data was exposed on a Web site to 38,700, as agency officials stressed the steps being taken to protect those affected by the situation. The 38,700 people...

Online Backup Startup Signs Global Pact with GE.
April 23, 2007... Berkeley Data Systems, of American Fork, Utah, has landed a rather large corporate fish. The 25-employee online storage backup company announced April 23 a multimillion-dollar contract to provide remote backup services to employees of General...

Panel: CIOs Wary of Open-Source Enterprise Apps.
April 23, 2007... NEW YORK--Just how comfortable are CIOs in the enterprise with the use of Linux and open-source solutions, particularly on the mission-critical application front? That was the question put before the closing panel at the Linux/Open Source...

Out of Scope: Tales From The Tech Project Front.
April 24, 2007... My Weird Project: Digestible RFID Inventors from Kodak want to use disintegrating chips to make sure you're taking your medicine. Forget the cameras-they've got you tagged. Kodak inventors want to give a whole new meaning to "take two of...

ID Theft Task Force Urges Tougher Penalties.
April 24, 2007... WASHINGTON (Reuters)--A U.S. task force created to curb identity theft urged federal agencies on Monday to help protect consumers by ceasing unnecessary use of Social Security numbers. A plan put forward by the Justice Department and...

HP Unveils New Data Warehouse, BI Services.(Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief article)
April 24, 2007... SAN FRANCISCO--Hewlett-Packard, putting together resources it has been cultivating since it acquired business intelligence vendor Knightsbridge Solutions last December, introduced on April 24 what it calls a "next-generation" data warehouse...

Microsoft's BizTalk Services Simplify SOA.(service oriented architecture)(Brief article)
April 24, 2007... Microsoft has delivered a set of new services based on its BizTalk Server technology to help developers build new SOA-oriented applications. Microsoft BizTalk Services, announced on April 24, include BizTalk Identity Services, which...

Toyota Claims Title as World's Largest Automaker.
April 25, 2007... It was only a matter of time, but Toyota Motor claimed the crown as the world's top automaker this week, surpassing General Motors of Detroit in quarterly worldwide sales. Toyota announced that its worldwide sales reached 2.35 million cars...

SAP Outlines NetWeaver Road Map.
April 25, 2007... ATLANTA--During the second day of Sapphire, SAP's annual user conference being held here April 22-25, SAP outlined its road map for NetWeaver, the integration platform announced several years ago that's been the underpinning for the company's...

Is Ubuntu Enterprise-Ready?(Brief article)
April 25, 2007... Anyone who follows Linux at all knows that Ubuntu is currently the Linux community's favorite distribution. But can Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, translate that popular success into business success? Certainly, under the leadership...

Microsoft Releases First Public Beta for 'Longhorn'.
April 25, 2007... Microsoft will release the feature-complete, third beta for Windows Server "Longhorn" on April 25, which is also the first public beta of the software. The product remains on track for release to manufacturing in the second half of 2007,...

Database Competitors IBM, MySQL Join Hands.
April 25, 2007... Database rivals MySQL and IBM on April 25 announced plans to bring support for the MySQL open-source database to the IBM System i business computing platform. The two companies will work together to offer MySQL Server for i5/OS--the...

Red Hat Acquires MetaMatrix, Targets Unix Apps Market.(Brief article)
April 25, 2007... Red Hat announced on April 24 that it will be acquiring MetaMatrix, a company that specializes in data access software and services, in an effort to make it easier for business customers to move their "siloed legacy applications" to JBoss...

Meet the New Linux Kernel: 2.6.21.
April 26, 2007... It took longer than Linux creator Linus Torvalds would have liked, but the latest Linux kernel, version 2.6.21, has arrived. It brings many minor and major changes in how Linux handles process scheduling and time. In his April 25th release...

Websense to Acquire Security Rival SurfControl.
April 26, 2007... Websense announced April 26 that it will acquire fellow Web security provider SurfControl for $400 million. The deal is expected to close in about four months, pending approval from government agencies in the United States and United...

Adobe Open-Source Move Sets Showdown with Microsoft.
April 26, 2007... Adobe Systems has announced its plans to open-source its Flex Web development framework. The San Jose, Calif., company is releasing its Adobe Flex source code to the open-source community to enable developers throughout the world to tap...

Do Computer Pros Work Less Than Others?
April 27, 2007... Among eight broad professional occupations tracked by the government, only one category--consisting of educators, trainers and librarians--average fewer hours at work each week. The occupation category comprising computer and mathematical...

LignUp Aligns VOIP, SOA with App Dev Tools.
April 27, 2007... LignUp will introduce the latest version of its Communications Application Server on April 30, contributing to the effort to make it easier for application developers to add voice as a component to composite, Web 2.0 applications using Web...

Company Keeps Its Cool, Lowers Costs.(Data Return Corp. manage information-technology services for customers over the Internet)
April 27, 2007... The research firm Gartner last fall ranked Data Return LLC, a small, independent managed services provider, among a handful of leaders in its 2006 North American Web Hosting Magic Quadrant report. Gartner positioned Data Return ahead of...