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An inability to properly manage their IT assets is placing many North American organizations at a significant security and financial risk, says a recent report.

At its third annual user conference, open-source middleware vendor JBoss unveiled its first-ever Seam 1.0 application framework for Web 2.0 and announced the broadening of its vendor certification program to "software as a service" providers as it continues to build a support base for its enterprise open-source offerings.

The bad old days of enterprise software, when information was locked in separate silos, are almost over, and most of us are glad to see them go. Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) and software have arrived on the scene to usher in a new era.

A mass-mail worm that exploits a vulnerability in Yahoo Inc.'s Web e-mail is making the rounds but the impact appears to be low, security vendor Symantec Corp. said. The worm, which Symantec calls JS.Yamanner@m, is different from others in that a user merely has to open the e-mail to cause it to run.

Symantec Corp. used its Vision 2006 conference in San Francisco this month to stake out new turf in the protection business, outlining a broader approach to security that aims to protect the enterprise from infrastructure and information right thru to interactions.

At the Sapphire user conference in Orlando, on Tuesday, SAP executives outlined why users should standardize on SAP

Symantec Corp. funnels a portion of its R&D budget each year into technology innovation. The "crucible" where innovative technologies are forged is Symantec Research Labs (SRL). Ajei Gopal, Symantec's chief technology officer, talks to Joaquim P. Menezes, IT World Canada's Web editor about thes labs and how they focus on the proverbial "next thing."

Last year, Cisco CEO John Chambers clearly set the network industry