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IBM labels diversity a 'strategic imperative' By VIRGINIA GALT From Monday's Globe and Mail Toronto — Fishing is more fun, says IBM's "dean of diversity," but golf is the game of business — which is why, he explains, Big Blue has installed putting greens at some of its on-site day-care centres. Little girls should learn to play golf so they will not grow up to be "competitively disadvantaged," Ted Childs, global vice-president of work force diversity at International Business Machines Corp., said during a recent visit to the company's Canadian headquarters. Their mothers are getting golf lessons, too, as IBM...

IBM labels diversity a 'strategic imperative' By VIRGINIA GALT From Monday's Globe and Mail Toronto — Fishing is more fun, says IBM's "dean of diversity," but golf is the game of business — which is why, he explains, Big Blue has installed putting greens at some of its on-site day-care centres. Little girls should learn to play golf so they will not grow up to be "competitively disadvantaged," Ted Childs, global vice-president of work force diversity at International Business Machines Corp., said during a recent visit to the company's Canadian headquarters. Their mothers are getting golf lessons, too, as IBM...

AMD confirms IBM DB2 Hammer support Corporate migration easier, says IBM By Mike Magee: Tuesday 30 July 2002, 20:58 IBM'S DB2 DATABASE for Linux will be supported on AMD's Opteron (Hammer) processors, confirming benchmarks posted on c't magazine a few weeks back. AMD confirmed the story in a release which said a DB2 database using SuSE Linux was successfully ported to X86-64 technology in just a few days. The news is good for AMD and indicates positiive application software support for its Opteron servers, due to be launched next year. The chip firm said that using X86-64 architecture will mean...

IBM and Linux our biggest threats - Microsoft By ComputerWire Posted: 07/26/2002 at 06:47 EST IBM and Linux combined represent a threat and inspiration as Microsoft Corp drives into enterprise computing, top company executives said yesterday. Computing giant IBM wages war against Microsoft in lucrative corporate accounts while Linux, the low-coast threat to Windows, wins supporters in fertile developer communities. Speaking at Microsoft's 2002 Financial Analysts Day yesterday, executives heading-up Microsoft's developer and enterprise server divisions spoke with frankness. They also revealed product and strategic initiatives to combat the double-headed threat. Eric Rudder, senior vice president developer and platform evangelism,...

Sun Backs Rival's Web Services Security Effort By Richard Karpinski Microsoft, IBM, and Verisign this week submitted their Web Services Security (WS-Security) specification to the OASIS standards body and picked up a new friend along the way -- Sun Microsystems. The jockeying over Web services standards has grown to a frenzied pace. By moving WS-Security over to OASIS, which is the home for many key Web services standards, IBM and Microsoft were able to convince Sun -- and a slew of other companies -- to back the security effort. WS-Security aims to specify how to secure Web services -- including...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- It makes you wonder what else IBM's executives are hiding when they can't flat-out tell shareholders how many employees they've jettisoned so far this year and how many cuts they are targeting. Management certainly knows how many have been fired. And yet the company has failed to issue a single statement, or even a government filing, explaining how many people have lost their jobs so far in 2002. Nor has it said how many will be sacked when all is said and done this year. The brass at Big Blue is trimming jobs more aggressively than...

NEW YORK, May 24 (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM - News) said on Friday it has laid off an unspecified number of employees at plants where it makes large computers. The Armonk, New York-based company had "taken actions" on Thursday at the computer server plants as well as at its Somers, New York location, where most of its operating units are based, a spokeswoman said. She declined to specify how many jobs IBM cut in the server group or at Somers. According to the Web site Alliance@IBM, Communications Workers of America, a union group based in Endicott, New...

This Is Your Father's IBM, Only Smarter By: Erick Schonfeld  Issue: May 2002WebFile | Print Article | Email This Article    How a former has-been kicked its old habits, got open-source religion, and regained its status as one of the biggest, baddest tech companies on earth. It was one of the most high-profile technology deals to come up for grabs in years, and IBM didn't seem to stand a chance. Last summer Web auctioneer eBay (EBAY) kicked off a ferocious bidding war for the contract to provide software to power the next version of its website. Microsoft (MSFT) already provided eBay with key technologies,...

Company overtakes long-time leader Oracle PALO ALTO, Calif., May 7 — International Business Machines Corp. took the No. 1 spot last year in terms of total new database software sales from long-time leader Oracle Corp., according to a new report from Dataquest, a unit of technology research firm Gartner Inc. ORACLE REMAINS KING of the relational database software segment that accounts for 80 percent of the overall $8.84 billion database market, but slipped because of competition from IBM and Microsoft, Dataquest said. Elsewhere, Oracle lost ground on Microsoft’s Windows server platform — where it was overtaken by the software behemoth...

Investigators busted an elaborate shell game played with stock certificates and dummy corporations that ripped off computer companies to the tune of $2 million over the last 18 months. The 140-count indictment against 16 members of a "sophisticated" ring of accountants, computer operators and others was the first of its kind, District Attorney Richard Brown said yesterday. "What set this criminal enterprise apart was its sophistication and corporate savvy," Brown said. At the heart of the scam were dummy companies that the perpetrators created with great detail, investigators said. In one deal outlined by Brown, the group got the name...

Repent, sinners. Your Macintosh is a tool to promote Godless Communism and anti-Creationist "propaganda", according to an article at OBJECTIVE: Christian Ministries. Dr. Richard Paley, apparently "a teacher of Divinity and Theobiology at Fellowship University," starts out with discussions of the PBS series Evolution and Pokemon, and goes on to say: However, these propagandists aren't just targeting the young. Take for example Apple Computers, makers of the popular Macintosh line of computers. The real operating system hiding under the newest version of the Macintosh operating system (MacOS X) is called... Darwin! That's right, new Macs are based on Darwinism! While...

IBM and Microsoft have been quietly busy behind the scenes for the last two years building a toll booth that could position the two companies to collect royalties on most if not all Internet traffic.While the technologies that form the foundation of that toll booth have yet to be officially recognized as standards by an independent standards body, the collective strength of IBM and Microsoft could be enough to render Internet standards consortia powerless to stop them. The potential for the two giants to erect a toll booth is tied to the likelihood that Web services protocols such as SOAP,...

Direct IBM involvement in Holocaust revealed By Edwin Black, Special To 'The Jerusalem Post' WASHINGTON (March 27) - Recently discovered Nazi documents and Polish eyewitness testimony make it clear IBM's alliance with the Third Reich went far beyond its German subsidiary. During the rape of Poland and the Holocaust there, which killed millions and plundered a nation, IBM technology was a key factor. That custom-tailored technology was provided not through the German subsidiary, but directly through a new special Polish subsidiary reporting to IBM New York, mainly at its headquarters at 590 N. Madison Ave. in Manhattan. When the Nazis...

Microsoft, DOJ seek to close the deal By Joe WilcoxNews.com March 6, 2002 nbsp; WASHINGTON--The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday conceded that it settled with Microsoft in part because trustbusters failed to prove part of the basic theory of the antitrust case. In his presentation before U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, Justice Department lead attorney Philip Beck said that Microsoft was able to hold on to a monopoly in Intel-based operating systems only through anti-competitive acts. But the government was not in a position to make that argument stick, he said. quot;We tried very hard the first time around,...