Stories about: DLA

A former Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) staffer and an ex-radiocommunications regulator have been appointed to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) board, under the government's new merit-based recruitment criteria for public service officers.

It was just over a year ago that Microsoft dropped a bombshell of a claim: users of Linux and open-source software were unwittingly violating as many as 235 Microsoft software patents.

The private equity firm that has offered to pump up to US$100 million into SCO thinks court rulings against the vendor in its highly publicized Unix copyright lawsuits "don't make any sense" and it believes those rulings can be reversed on appeal to a higher court.

Microsoft Thursday rejected the idea that its deal last year with Novell ties it to the new General Public License Version 3 (GPLv3) and said it will not support any software distributed under the just-released open-source license.

The Linux faithful might be staring down the barrel of another round of Microsoft's legal taunts, but at last week's Linux Foundation Summit, the reaction was more ho-hum than oh-no.

Lawsuits are a fact of life for organizations today. Recent surveys show that the average U.S. company faces 305 suits at any one time; that number jumps to 556 for companies with US$1 billion or more in revenue.

Security research company Internet Security Systems (ISS) is continuing its legal fight to suppress information relating to a security vulnerability in Cisco Systems' routers. On Friday, the Atlanta-based research company sent a cease-and-desist letter to Richard Forno, a security researcher who just hours earlier had posted presentation slides that ISS had at one point planned to present at the Black Hat USA security conference in Las Vegas.

The European Commission has opened itself up to criticism from consumers and industry alike over its handling of a proposed law governing cross-border online disputes within the 15-nation European Union.

A hot competition to modernize information systems for the Defense Logistics Agency ended Thursday when the agency tapped Andersen Consulting Inc. to provide up to US$389 million in systems integration services for the Business Systems Modernization (BSM) program.

Linda Massaro always thought she had to try harder than the men to succeed in government. "You had to do a better job because you were going to be watched," she said. But from where she sits now, as chief information officer and director of information and resource management at the National Science Foundation, Massaro, 53, is watching more women succeed.

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) thought it was on its way to achieving more efficient purchasing when it unveiled its Procurement Gateway website two years ago. The site was designed to draw from several integrated databases to provide solicitations, specs, drawings and other contract documents online. Its aim was to make it easier for vendors to sell to the agency, thereby attracting more bidders and better prices for everything from paint to parachutes.