• Magic Software Hires a New Chief Executive

  March 26, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Magic Software Enterprises, a provider of application and integration software for midrange platforms, said last week that it has hired a new president and chief executive officer in the wake of a restructuring that it underwent last year. David Assia, who is chairman of the company’s board and who has been acting CEO since that restructuring last October, announced that Eitan Naor has been hired to fill those two roles at the company. Naor was previously president and CEO at ECtel, an Israeli supplier of integrated revenue management software, which detects fraud and does credit risk assessment as well

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• Software Powerhouses Agree on SOA Standards Bodies

  March 26, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  In December 2005, seven software companies got together in an unnamed group to pitch the idea of creating some standards to govern the way applications written to a service oriented architecture should be implemented; last July, the group expanded its membership to 17 companies–many of the major software players, minus Microsoft and Sun Microsystems. And last week, the SOA group, now with Sun as a member, but still not Microsoft, decided to submit its proposed Service Component Architecture (SCA) and Service Data Objects (SDO) standards to the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, or OASIS. The

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• Black Market for ID Theft Has Strong U.S. Ties, Symantec Finds

  March 26, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Curious to know what your personally identifiable information could fetch on the black market? While it may be priceless to you, hackers, cyber criminals, and other ne’er-do-wells of the underground economy charge from $14 to $18 for a deluxe identity theft package that includes a U.S. bank account and credit card numbers, date of birth, and government issued identification number, whereas a valid credit card number could be had for as little as $1, according to Symantec‘s latest Internet Security Threat Report. Every six months or so, Symantec issues an Internet Security Threat Report that details the latest trends

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• Financial Services Industry Spent the Most on Servers in 2006, Says Gartner

  March 26, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Did you ever wonder who is the biggest buyer all of those tens of billions of dollars in servers that IT vendors sell every year? Why, it is exactly who you think can most afford it: the banks, insurance companies, and other financial services firms who play with your money to make their money. These are the same companies that spend the most money on IT in general–and who have historically–so this stands to reason. According to market statistics compiled by Gartner, the financial services industry accounted for $13.2 billion in server purchases in 2006, up 3.2 percent from

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• As I See It: Workplace Heaven

  March 26, 2007 Victor Rozek

  I think I may have found it, that mythical and much sought after place where meetings are optional and vacations are mandatory. A place where workers set their own hours and choose their own managers. A place where employees are so trusted they are even allowed to propose their own salaries. Impossible, you say? Quit smoking the ganja, you say? Well, scoffers, I swear to you–it’s true. I’ve blundered onto workplace heaven, and I’m not even dead yet. Actually, no one needs to die in order to get there, but if you want the non-virtual version, you will have to

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• IDC Chops Server Forecasts Thanks to Virtualization, Multicore Chips

  March 26, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The IT analysts are finally coming around to the idea that server virtualization and multicore processors are going to have a disruptive effect on the server market from this point forward. Only weeks after IDC announced its figures for server shipments and revenues in the fourth quarter of 2006, when virtualization and multicore chips started a small downdraft in the server space, the consultancy has revised its server market models through 2010 significantly downward. Years ago–and I mean like three or four years ago–the growth projections for the server market from IDC and Gartner did not really take into account

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• Oracle Sues SAP Over ‘Corporate Theft on a Grand Scale’

  March 26, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Database and application software maker Oracle last Thursday sued competitor in the application space, SAP, for what it called “corporate theft on a grand scale” in its complaint. The suit was launched in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, in San Francisco. Oracle and SAP Americas are both Delaware corporations, and the choice of venue in California was chosen because of state laws against computer fraud. According to the suit, Oracle is seeking a jury trial after it discovered that SAP took software products and other confidential materials related to the support of Oracle’s products

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