Patrick Thibodeau

Richard Green, vice president for software at Sun Microsystems, will lead the company's effort to release Java to the open-source community at some as-yet-unknown point in the future. In an interview with Computerworld, Green talked about how Sun plans to work through any problems raised by open-sourcing.

You know you are at a conference of IT auditors and security chiefs when attendees are frequently urged in "housekeeping" announcements not to leave laptops unattended.

The Bush administration believes it can cut the US government's annual IT infrastructure costs, proposed at US$22.4 billion for fiscal 2007, by 16 percent to 27 percent through increased consolidation, standardization and interoperability.

Ron Jensen began his IT career as a self-professed

IBM announced last month that it plans to invest an additional US$1 billion in data management in a huge bid to make a profitable software and services business out of helping companies better manage and gain insight from their data.

The United Arab Emirates, which is currently at the centre of a controversy over whether outsourcing the management of six U.S. ports to a company based in the Persian Gulf should be allowed, wants to do more than manage ports: It wants Dubai, its capital, to become a major IT outsourcing destination.

General Motors Corp. Thursday awarded IT contracts worth approximately US$7 billion over five years to six vendors, including Electronic Data Systems Corp., which is now responsible for most of GM's IT operations, as well as IBM Corp. and Indian offshore firm Wipro Ltd.

San Diego officials are expected to vote Tuesday on a US$667 million IT outsourcing contract with Northrop Grumman Information Technology, a move more and more local and state governments may soon make if Reston, Va., consultancy Input is right about its IT outsourcing market forecast. n