22nd March 2010 Archive

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DfT scraps IT projects worth £15.4m

That can't be good for the brakes

The Department for Transport has cancelled three major IT projects in the last year prior to their completion. The three projects scrapped by the department were known as TVTTT, VINI and ISYS. TVTTT, which involved tracking vehicles through the trade, had cost £7.8m when cancelled. It was ended "as another project was found to …

Enterprise 22 Mar 10:23
Dodgy BitDefender update bricks systems

BullGuard also bitten by borked box balls-up

A dodgy update from BitDefender on Saturday bricked Win 64-Bit systems after it was applied. Rogue signature updates meant that multiple Windows and BullGuard files were falsely flagged as infected with a Trojan (now identified as Trojan-FakeAlert-5) and quarantined. Affected systems were subsequently left with applications …

Software & Security 22 Mar 10:25
Novell snubs hedge fund's $1bn takeover bid

Struggling software vendor says it's worth more than that

Novell has spurned an unsolicited $1bn cash takeover bid from Elliot Associates. It said on Saturday that it had considered the company's offer to acquire Novell for $5.75 per share in cash, but concluded such a deal was "inadequate" and "undervalued" Novell's "franchise and growth prospects". Earlier this month New York- …

Software & Security 22 Mar 11:31
Windows XP Mode skips virtualisation hardware requirements

All about wooing the small guy

Microsoft pushed out a software update late last week that strips away some hardware requirements for running Windows XP Mode on Windows 7 computers, in a move designed to convince more SMBs to upgrade their operating systems. The software maker said Windows XP Mode no longer needed hardware virtualisation technology to run …

Software & Security 22 Mar 13:03
Unisys gooses ClearPath mainframes

New Libra in the middle

Mainframe maker Unisys has boosted the process capacity of its ClearPath Libra mainframes, shooting the gap between high-end Libra models based on Unisys' homegrown mainframe engines and entry Libra models based on Intel's quad-core and six-core Xeon MP processors. The new ClearPath Libra 750 machine announced today runs the …

Enterprise 22 Mar 18:36
Russians approve, um, Sunacle deal

Oligarch Ellison

I guess we all know what Larry Ellison thinks of the Federal Antimonopoly Service, the antitrust regulatory body in Russia. While the European Union was credited with holding up the $7.4bn acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle, the FAS was supposed to have a say in whether or not the deal went through too. But about one …

Software & Security 22 Mar 21:56