Monthly Archives: October 2004
Siebel Turns Spotlight on BI
The Mike Lawrie era at Siebel Systems Inc. is known around the company as Siebel 2.0, with Lawrie having replaced founding CEO Tom Siebel...
Health Industry Searches for Next Informaticians
New graduate students have been arriving at informatics programs all across the country this week. The programs vary within and between schools, but most...
DOJ Passes on Appeal of Oracle Verdict
The U.S. Justice Department announced Friday that it would not appeal the recent U.S. District Court decision that Oracle Corp.s $7.7 billion hostile buyout...
Security-Threat Basics Shouldnt Be Premium
Theres been a debate going on in the industry about whether its right for companies to charge for "premium" security-threat information. Me, Ive got...
Oracle Clears the Conway Hurdle
With PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway canned, Oracle has cleared one of its biggest hurdles to acquiring his former employer, some experts believe.
Conway was ousted...
IBM Enhances Transaction Monitoring Tool
IBM will launch Friday a new version of its Tivoli transaction-performance monitoring product that greatly expands the range of application transactions it can track.IBM...
Hitachi, NEC Form Switch Venture
Hitachi Ltd. and NEC Corp. said Thursday that the two companies have established a joint venture specializing in the production of routers and switches.The...
New Phishing System Takes Advantage of JPEG Bug
Symantec Corp.s Threat Analyst Team has discovered an exploit in the wild that utilizes the recently announced JPEG vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.s GDI+ library...
U.S. Cyber-Security Chief Calls It Quits
Amit Yoran, the nations top cyber-security official, has resigned from the Department of Homeland Security after just one year on the job.
DHS officials confirmed...
Lawyers: Microsofts FAT Patent Defeat Significant
How significant is the U.S. Patent and Trademark Offices initial rejection of Microsofts FAT (file allocation table) file system patent claims?
Is it, as a...