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SCO says Linux a copy of Unix

SCO chief executive Darl McBride claims that Linux is a copy of Unix, which is contradicted by the open-source community and apparently runs counter to other SCO testimony.

SCO sued IBM in 2003, claiming that the IT giant had used copyright code from the Unix operating system which SCO sold, and later extended this suit to other Linux vendors. However, last August, Judge Dale Kimball ruled that Novell, not SCO, owns Unix. A four-day court case is now determining Novell's claim for up to $20 million in royalties from SCO, which declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy last year.

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SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes

Mainsoft, a provider of .NET-Java EE interoperability software and an advanced IBM business partner, announced the release of its SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes. This add-on to IBM Lotus Notes 8, an Eclipsed-based Rich Client Platform based on Java, provides point-and-click access to Microsoft SharePoint content, including Word documents, Excel worksheets, and PowerPoint presentations, from within Notes. Mainsoft professional services can also build composite applications across SharePoint data and Java or .NET line-of-business applications. Mainsoft's SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes enables organizations to implement a coexistence strategy by integrating existing Lotus Notes installations and Microsoft SharePoint sites.

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Red Hat should be only Linux distro

One Oracle exec said there should be only one Linux distribution--Red Hat--and claimed there will be no fragmentation of that code base.

In an interview with the Linux Foundation recently, Oracle's chief corporate architect said Oracle Unbreakable Linux is not a product but a support program and he believes that there ought to be only one Linux distribution--his rival's code base.

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Big vendors tardy on fixing security flaws

Some of the biggest names in the IT software business still are very lax when it comes to fixing security holes reported by third-party brokers.

According to a list maintained by TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, Computer Associates and Hewlett-Packard are among the vendors most tardy about shipping fixes for known flaws that could be used in code execution attacks.

Microsoft, for example, has nine "high risk" vulnerabilities on the list. Three of the nine Microsoft product flaws were reported more than 404 days ago.

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New article: The White House email controversy: it's time for a Special Prosecutor

By David Gewirtz

These have not been good weeks in our cause to repair the systemic problems with White House email.

This week, we have a judge who's directing the White House to look in many of the wrong places. We have a White House CIO who claims that asset management is a new invention, so it's tough to keep track of those pesky hard drives.

We also have a White House who can't account for any email messages at all during the months of the initial Iraq invasion. And we have a Congress who's decided we don't need any real form of email records management for another four years.

"Fundamentally, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has given the next administration, regardless of who's in office, a complete and total pass on making any change to their email record keeping practices."

As I've been stating for nearly a year now, White House email is broken. Last week, with the Mexican theft of White House BlackBerrys, one of my more farfetched predictions came true in a very troubling way.

Sadly, neither elected nor appointed officials in Washington are making the situation any better. In fact, it's getting worse. Sadly, I've reached the conclusion that it's time to call for a Special Prosecutor. We now have official White House statements that federal laws are being broken, and I don't see any way for this to be resolved without escalation.

Tap here and read all the sad details.

CEOs battle to keep pace with change

The IBM Global CEO Study, the largest study of chief executives ever conducted, reveals a dramatic increase in the number of global business leaders who see important change ahead, and also highlights how the ability to absorb and manage change is widening the gap between winners and losers in the global economy.

CEOs reported a surprising level of optimism about change as an opportunity to build new competitive advantage. Overall, 83 percent of surveyed CEOs expect substantial change in the future, an increase of 28 percent in just two years. However, CEOs report their ability to effectively manage change is increasing at a far slower pace.

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Good worms are a bad idea

Some bad ideas seem to live on forever. One of the big ones in computers is to use hacker tactics to perform white-hat operations on an Internet scale. The classic example of this is the "good worm" idea--a worm that spreads among computers to improve their security.

There have been attempts to do this in the past, most famously Welchia, a worm that exploited the infamous Windows RPC/DCOM network vulnerability in order to patch it. There were also reports years ago of Hewlett-Packard launching a good worm, but this turned out to be a more conventional scanning system that in some ways presaged NAC (Network Admission Control).

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Notes and Domino 8 seminar

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Donofrio, Zeitler to exit

Two of IBM's most senior executives, technology strategy chief Nick Donofrio and hardware chief Bill Zeitler, will retire later this year, an IBM memo showed on Monday.

Chief Executive Sam Palmisano announced the retirements in an email to employees obtained by Reuters. Bob Moffat will take Zeitler's job as Senior Vice President and Group Executive, Systems and Technology, overseeing computer and microchips and keep his current role focused on IBM's supply chain.

A variety of executives will take on roles from Donofrio, whose title is Executive Vice President, Innovation and Technology, Palmisano said. Spokesman Ed Barbini confirmed the moves and said the change was normal as, traditionally, executives retire around age 60. Zeitler would be 61 and Donofrio 63 when they retired, he said.

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Lotus Domino 8.0.1 Web Access Lite mode

IBM Lotus Domino Web Access Lite mode is an exciting new capability within the established Lotus Domino Web Access product that uses a new page architecture optimized for empty-cache or low-bandwidth scenarios. Learn how these innovative performance improvements are delivered to you in an updated user interface (UI) that more closely resembles your IBM Lotus Notes client user experience.

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SAP, IBM still chummy

Executives from IBM and SAP said the two companies won't fall out even though they now compete head-on in the market for BI (business intelligence) software, with their respective purchases of Cognos and Business Objects.

SAP provides such a big chunk of business for IBM Global Business Services that the two sides are unlikely to disrupt their close partnership, said Don Mettica, an official from that unit, during a panel discussion at SAP's Sapphire conference in Orlando this week. "We see this space continuing to grow," he said.

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David's cure for insomnia

For those of you who happen to be awake at 4am Rocky Mountain time, David will be broadcasting on the 50,000 watt radio station KOA-850AM, doing the after-midnight show with Rick Barber and talking about White House email and the Mexican theft of White House BlackBerrys. Just so you know, in order to do this at 4am Rocky Mountain time, David's got to be conscious and lucid at 6am Florida time.

If you know our fearless leader, you know he's definitely not a 6am kinda guy, so the only way this is going to fly is stay up and do the show before going to bed. In any case, if you happen to be up at 4am and located pretty much anywhere on the western side of the US (50,000 watts reaches a long distance at night), you can tune in. You can also listen via their Web feed, should you be in a different part of the world. David promises to do his best to keep you awake throughout the full hour.

And, if you're mature and sleeping, like all good people should be at that hour, we'll post the download link sometime in the next day or so when it makes it online.

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IBM, Google collaborate on cloud

Google and IBM committed to working more closely on cloud computing Thursday at IBM's Business Partnership Leadership Conference in Los Angeles. The companies said they were extending a joint research project that started last October.

"Cloud computing is the story of our lifetime," Google CEO Eric Schmidt said. "Eventually all devices will be on the network."

He was joined onstage by IBM CEO Sam Palmisano, who said the relationship marks a new avenue for Big Blue. "It is the first time we have taken something from the consumer arena and applied it to the enterprise," he said.

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Military computer contractor convicted of ID theft

A former U.S. military contractor has pleaded guilty to exceeding authorized access to a computer and aggravated identity theft after he was accused of selling names and Social Security numbers of 17,000 military employees, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

Randall Craig, 41, of Houston, pleaded guilty Friday to both counts of an indictment returned in April by a grand jury in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Craig acknowledged selling information contained in a military database to a person he believed to represent a foreign government, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The person who purchased the names and Social Security numbers from Craig was an undercover FBI agent, they said.

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Mobile Admin 4.0

Mobile Admin is an enterprise network administration platform that allows unified management of all IT systems from any computer or handheld device. The Mobile Admin server software is installed on a single server on the network and allows for instant management of all other systems, without the need to install any agent software on the systems to be managed.

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Has telecommuting fallen from grace?

There was a time when telecommuting was seen as a panacea. The proliferation of wireless technology had made it easier for workers in countless arenas to work from their living rooms or the coffee shop of their choice, leading waves of companies to embrace partial or total remote work policies for their masses.

It seemed like a win-win. Employees were happy because they weren't wasting hours of their day snarled in traffic, it gave them a better-work life balance, they were more efficient without in-office distractions, and, in turn, they got more satisfaction from their jobs. Bosses were happy because they were saving money on office space and because happier employees were theoretically more productive and less likely to job-hop. And businesses were happy because the promise of a flexible working environment was a priceless tactic to recruit workers, young and old.

So what happened? Only a few years since it was heralded as a newer, better way to work, studies began to emerge that put chinks in the armor of telecommuting. Sixty-one percent of executives surveyed in January 2007 by Korn/Ferry International, a Los Angeles-based recruiting firm, said they saw career stagnancy among telecommuting workers.

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HP builds intelligent memory

Researchers at Hewlett-Packard have developed a working unit of a memory circuit that has existed in theory for 37 years, which could ultimately replace RAM and make computers more intelligent by tracking data it has retained.

The technology, called memristor, could allow computers to make decisions by understanding past patterns of data it has collected, similar to human brains collecting and understanding a series of events.

For example, a memristor circuit could be capable of telling a microwave the heating time for different food types based on the information it has collected over time, said Stanley Williams, senior fellow at HP.[Can you say Skynet?]

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Malware infected hardware

Samuel King and colleagues at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have shown that they could gain control of a computer by adding malicious circuits to its processor. Because these circuits interfere with the computer at a deeper level than a virus, they effectively operate "below the radar" of AV software.

To evaluate the risk from such hardware, King's team designed their own malicious circuits. They used a processor called a field programmable gate array (FPGA), whose logic circuits can be rearranged, to create a replica of an existing open source processor called Leon3, which contains around 1.7 million circuits. They then added about 1000 malicious circuits not present in Leon3.

The team found that the circuits allowed them to bypass security controls on Leon3 in a similar way to how a virus hands control of a computer to a hacker, but without requiring a flaw in a software application. When they hooked the FPGA up to another computer, they were able to steal passwords stored in its memory and install malicious software that would allow the operating system it was running to be remotely controlled.

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BlackBerry Certification Program

Research In Motion announced a new BlackBerry Certification Program that will extend a reliable, comprehensive certification testing service in support of the BlackBerry wireless platform. The new BlackBerry Certification Program is intended to provide an empirical means of measuring and validating the real world skills and knowledge used in planning, administering and supporting BlackBerry product deployments. The program, which is designed for IT professionals and consultants as well as wireless carriers and other BlackBerry partners, will be available in 135 countries.

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SCO trial begins

More than four years after filing a lawsuit about alleged misuse of the Unix operating system, the SCO Group will get its days in court, beginning today in Salt Lake City.

The defendant will be Novell, which SCO sued in 2004. SCO also had filed a lawsuit over Unix in 2003 against International Business Machines Corp.

SCO's lawsuit against IBM claims the company had violated an agreement by inserting Unix code into Linux, a free "open source" computer operating system distributed by IBM that competes with proprietary Unix.

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IBM open collaboration client solution

Have you wanted to port your infrastructure and business line applications to a Linux desktop environment, but been deterred by the need to access critical Microsoft Windows or legacy applications? Finding a way to support these critical business line applications is crucial when considering the move to Linux. This article highlights the various tools that let you access these applications from Linux desktops.

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Man gets prison for sending spam

A Colorado man accused of sending hundreds of thousands of spam emails has been sentenced to 21 months in prison after pleading guilty to tax evasion and falsifying email headers.

Thirty-five-year-old Edward "Eddie" Davidson of Louisville was also ordered to pay nearly $715,000 to the Internal Revenue Service. He was sentenced Monday and ordered to report to prison authorities in May.

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Lotus Quickr library linker

Learn how to operate your Lotus Quickr library content with Lotus Quickr REST services based on Dojo. In the example described in this article, content from different Lotus Quickr libraries interacts with simple Lotus Quickr REST services in the library linker tool, which is based on the latest Dojo 1.0 framework.

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Six phases of a technology flop

There's a saying that greatness doesn't happen overnight. Well, the same can often be said for great flops. Technology flops go through their own stages, from promising new technology to overhyped beast to oblivion. Here's a look at the six stages of technology flops, using the rise and fall of push technology as an example.

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Indian techies snubbing US jobs

Graduates from the Indian Institutes of Technology so called "IITians" told Evalueserve that India was fast catching up with the US for the range and quality of career prospects. Between 1964 and 2001 the number of IITians staying in India was 65 percent but this jumped to 84 percent between 2002 and 2008.

The survey of 667 IITians found this was being fuelled by shifting attitudes, between 1964 and 2001 60 per cent believed developed countries offered the best employment prospects but this fell to 51 per cent between 2002 and 2008, with 49 per cent believing India now offered better opportunities.

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IBM Uncages Cheetah 2 Data Server

Less than a year after unleashing its "Cheetah" data server, IBM is set to release a new version of its software with enhanced availability.

IDS(Informix Dynamic Sever) 11.5, code-named "Cheetah 2," builds on the failover-recovery capabilities of its predecessor by now supporting full read/write transactions across all nodes. The last version of IDS only supported reads on secondary nodes, the company said. The latest version of IDS will be available worldwide beginning on May 6.

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IBM acquires InfoDyne

IBM announced it has acquired InfoDyne Corporation, a privately held software company based in Park Ridge, Illinois. InfoDyne is a leader in high-speed platforms and data feed connectors which combined with IBM's WebSphere technology will help clients extend transactional integrity to low-latency environments. Financial details were not disclosed.

InfoDyne provides software that is designed to enable today's highly competitive trading firms and other venues to process exploding data volumes at microsecond response rates. InfoDyne's market data delivery platform and rich feed handler portfolio take data from hundreds of sources and deliver it in a standardized format, helping customers to control escalating data feed costs.

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Go green with ReduceMail Pro

Avalon Business Systems, developer of mail management utilities for use with Lotus Notes mail systems, will be demonstrating its ReduceMail Pro suite of products at the Admin 2008 trade show in Boston. Avalon's initiative, Go Green with ReduceMail Pro highlights how using ReduceMail Pro can help your organization save energy by off-loading old mail from energy-consuming high-availability clustered servers to lower-energy consuming secondary servers.

All of the ReduceMail Pro products can help an organization save energy and money by improving email efficiency. ReduceMail Pro Archive/Delete removes email completely or off-loads old email to lesser availability storage, allowing you to minimize the backup resources and reducing the need for energy-intensive server tasks such as compaction and view index updates. ReduceMail Pro Audit helps you ensure that the email system is used only for appropriate emails and allows you to delete large unnecessary attachments. ReduceMail Pro Attach helps you compress and consolidate attachments and move large attachments to more energy efficient lower availability servers.

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Reiser conviction may kill ReiserFS

Software developer Hans Reiser was found guilty today of first degree murder in the death of his wife in late 2006, a conviction that carries up to 25 years in prison and a possible death sentence for the Reiser4 file system.

ReiserFS (File System) is incorporated in the Linux kernel and is used in many top Linux distributions, although EXT3 has succeeded it a the leading file system. The Reiser4 open source project, the successor to ReiserFS also conceived by Hans Reiser, continues to be developed and supported by a group of open source programmers. In an e-mail interview over the weekend, Edward Shishkin, a top developer of Reiser4, said work continues on the file system but the fate of the open source project long term is uncertain.

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New article: The worrisome implications of the Mexican theft of White House BlackBerry devices

By David Gewirtz

Our ongoing story about the security of White House email took a strange turn on Friday, proving some of the national security concerns I've been discussing to be true in a particularly tangible and unfortunate way.

On Friday, the Associated Press reported that Rafael Quintero Curiel, lead press advance person for the Mexican delegation, was caught stealing BlackBerry devices belonging to White House staffers who were attending meetings between U.S. President George W. Bush and Canadian and Mexican leaders in New Orleans last week. Unfortunately, Quintero Curiel was caught after the devices had been in his possession for some time.

One story, originating with Fox News, had the count of missing BlackBerrys at six or seven, but when I spoke to Mark Stevenson of the Associated Press, on site in Mexico City, he told me the final count was, in fact, two devices.

"Racial stereotyping may have contributed to spinning this story in a way that may be obscuring the true magnitude of the possible damage to our national security."

On Friday, we issued a breaking news press release on this topic, which covered the early news and what I saw as the national security concerns that weren't initially getting covered. This Special Report expands on that press release and is a detailed analysis of the issue.

What makes this topic so troubling, of course, is the serious national security breach that may have occurred. But there's more to the story, including issues of the relationship between the United States and Mexico, and even how racial stereotyping may have contributed to spinning this story in a way that may be obscuring the true magnitude of the possible damage to our national security.

To read the complete Special Report, tap here.

The 10 hottest IT jobs

Through analysis of some recent employment studies and interviews with IT professionals and recruiters, Baseline Magazine determined the hottest IT positions today. Here is the list from Baseline Magazine.

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Contest slammed for encouraging hackers

Anti-virus companies are angry at a planned new event at a major security conference in the US.

Called Race-to-Zero, the contest will invite visitors to the Defcon hacker conference to find new ways of beating anti-virus software.

Contestants will get some sample virus code that they must modify and try to sneak past the anti-virus products.

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Wage gap narrower for women in IT

Statistically, men make more money than women do for doing the same job. It's called the "wage gap" and it is considered one of the last bastions of gender inequality in the workplace.

The wage gap hit its all-time low in 1973, when women could be expected to earn 56.6 percent of what a man would earn for the same work, according to the U.S. Women's Bureau and the NCPE (National Committee on Pay Equity). This was a decade after the Equal Pay Act of 1963 made it illegal for employers to pay unequal wages to men and women who held the same job and did the same work. (The percentage was 58 percent in 1963.)

In 2007, women could expect to be paid 80 cents on the dollar across all occupations, an improvement of less than half a penny per year, with numbers even further depressed among minorities: 64 cents per dollar for African-American women and 52 cents for Hispanic women.

IT professions faired better than most in 2007. Computer support specialists appeared closest to closing the wage gap, with women earning 87 percent of what men did in the same occupation, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The numbers beat the national average in other categories, including computer and information systems managers and computer programmers (85 percent) and database administrators, computer scientists and systems analysts (84 percent).

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Court expands White House email order

A judge tells the Bush administration to collect and preserve all email in .pst files; millions are missing.

Concerned over contradictory White House statements about the government's controversial email archiving efforts, a U.S. district judge April 24 ordered the Bush administration to collect and preserve all emails in .pst files for individuals employed at the White House between March 2003 and October 2005. Millions of White House email are missing from the period.

The White House admits emails are missing but insists the emails are on back-up tapes and drives that as yet haven't been located. Federal law requires the preservation of all White House email. The period of time covered by the order includes the start of the Iraq war, the Valerie Plame affair and the White House response to Hurricane Katrina.

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Schwartz sees end to blogging

Sun Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz rightly gets credit for pioneering the corporate blog as a tool to reach customers, employees, and others. But pretty soon the novelty of his methods will wear off, he predicted.

"At some point the word 'blogging' will be anachronistic," Schwartz said at the Web 2.0 Expo here in San Francisco. "I communicate."

And he predicted, in effect, that the rest of the executive world will catch up. "Historically, communication took place by being a celebrity CEO who met with heads of state, and got the local media to cover it," he said in an on-stage interview with O'Reily Media chief Tim O'Reilly. "You got the message out in an inefficient and environmentally irresponsible way. Then the Internet came round and gave you a way to reach the entire planet."

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Breaking news: White House BlackBerry devices stolen by Mexican govt official

Looks like our own David Gewirtz was right in his concerns. Here's a breaking news report on the subject:

ZATZ Publishing today announces that national security concerns published by David Gewirtz, ZATZ Editor-in-Chief and the author of Where Have All The Emails Gone? have been proven true in a particularly tangible and unfortunate example.

Today, Fox News reported that Rafael Quintero Curiel, lead press advance person for the Mexican Delegation was caught stealing six or seven BlackBerry devices belonging to White House staffers who were attending meetings between U.S. President George W. Bush and Canadian and Mexican leaders in New Orleans this week. Unfortunately, Quintero Curiel was caught after the devices had been in his possession for some time.

That's the equivalent in strategic U.S. government information of about 28,000 printed pages of data, or seven complete sets of all seven Harry Potter novels. And that's per BlackBerry. Given today's incident, that's seven times seven complete sets of all seven Harry Potter novels.

Read the full text.

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Tech jargon bad for your career

Jargon shows up in all professions, but in few is it more apparent, or more divisive, than in the world of technology. Picture this. You're in the middle of a presentation to a business team about some technology it would behoove the company to invest in and this comes out of your mouth:

"Just last week, we loaded 15 BGUs in the OTB and got an output of 1,300 cycles, which shows our testing program is right on target."

You might have missed it, but half the room was day dreaming and the other half were checking email on their BlackBerrys. What they were not doing: considering whether they should budget for this technology, because you had lost their attention. Can an over-reliance on tech jargon be bad for your career? Some experts say yes.

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Training makes IT workers happy

What makes IT professionals happy? According to a survey released April 23 by Robert Half Technology, an IT recruiting firm, the answer is really not that complicated: money.

CIOs identified increased compensation as the most effective way to retain IT staff, cited by 27 percent of respondents. Yet not far behind--at 21 percent--CIOs also knew they were really winning employees' favor with professional development or training.

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IT labor shortage or not, gaps remain

The debate over whether there are sizeable IT labor shortages in the United States is challenging and complex. There has been plenty of discussion on H-1B visas, a purported lack of computer science graduates and a cry from the human resources industry that many jobs in technology simply cannot get filled.

Nearly one in four CIOs polled by Robert Half International in a recent survey said finding skilled IT professionals is their greatest staffing challenge. It's gone so far that major company heads like Bill Gates of Microsoft have urged the U.S. government to increase the number of H1-B visas to help fill gaps.

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Crazy about recruitment

Considering how hard most solution providers will tell you it is to find IT talent, they would be crazy to launch recruiting side businesses.

Well, call them crazy, but a small group of solution providers in recent years has done just that. Though playing headhunter wasn't exactly in their original business plans, these solution providers have tackled recruitment as another service for their customers. The providers are featured in a story titled "For Hire" in this month's eWEEK Strategic Provider.

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