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Oracle Closes in on 'Any'-ware with Debut of Middleware 11g Suites Family

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:45:00 EDT

With the spoils of the BEA acquisition now fully baked into the mix -- and with anticipation for what the pending Sun Microsystems buy brings -- Oracle is well on its way to obviating the middleware moniker. Perhaps we should call it "anyware."

SYS-CON White Paper: JBoss Migration Guide

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:30:00 EDT

IT organizations are constantly faced with the challenge to produce high-quality solutions with a lower total cost of ownership. With the growing recognition that open source software provides quality, stable solutions, migrations of existing enterprise applications to products such as JBoss Enterprise Application Platform have become increasingly popular.

SYS-CON White Paper: Application Performance Management by Tidal Software

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:45:00 EDT

As the complexity, immediacy, and scope of enterprise processes increase, so does the risk of failure. Comprehensive, proactive management of next-generation information processes and services is critical. Traditional application management tools are inadequate to manage next-generation cross-application and, eventually, cross-enterprise business processes and services because they are static, invasive, and unaware of changing application context.

rPath Tackles the “Last Mile” of IT Process Automation

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:13:00 EDT

In today's challenging economic climate, the most pressing IT mandate is cost reduction and finding ways to “do more with less.” Central to this is dealing with the explosion of application deployment and systems management complexity, which has brought today's manual processes to the brink.

Evaluating Performance Management Solutions for Java and .NET Applications

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:45:00 EDT

Web Applications are now woven into the way that many enterprises operate, and the monitoring and management of these applications become extremely important to businesses that require nimble datacenters. The risks of failure rise with enterprise application complexity, immediacy, and scope. To mitigate those risks it is imperative to deploy a comprehensive, proactive approach to managing next-generation applications and services.

The Value of Inter-Domain Infrastructure Technology for SOA

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:15:00 EST

As SOA moves from the project level to the enterprise, SOA architects and practitioners quickly realize the need to consider common services and data management issues. Today we seek the right approaches and the proper enabling technology and standards to provide our enterprises with a common scalable and secure mechanism that ensures all instances of SOAs within the enterprise have the technology-independent infrastructure they need in support of the business.

Finding Trends in Internet Security

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:45:00 EST

As a new year approaches we must prepare for new Internet security threats. Every year, new and innovative ways of attacking computer users emerge and continue to increase in volume and severity. To know where we are going it is helpful to look at where we have been. Finding trends in Internet security has become a valuable, if not necessary, action for companies developing software to protect computer users.

Weak Economy Makes the Move to the Cloud Inevitable

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:45:00 EST

Enterprises normally move slowly to new technologies but when the price advantage is close to 10x, enterprise decision makers can and will move more quickly. The weak economy provides yet a stronger push. It won’t happen at once and it won’t happen instantly but I’m convinced that in 7 years, the vast majority of enterprises will be using utility computing for some part of their enterprise IT infrastructure.

WSO2 Named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's SOA World Conference & Expo

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global SOA technology provider WSO2 named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's upcoming SOA World Conference & Expo 2008 West, which will take place November 19-21, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Valley, in San Jose, California.

QuantumXML Named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's SOA World and Virtualization Conference & Expo

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:30:00 EDT

Can high-performance XML be sexy? QuantumXML, the world’s fastest XML software, speeds through typical SOA transactions 10x to 100x faster than any other existing technology. You’re right, that doesn’t sound sexy. But, think of your Data Center running at a fraction of its current power and cooling costs. Imagine the possibilities; surplus processing power, a healthy bump up in the bottom line, and doing your part to save the environment. Sounding more attractive? Kick it up another notch by monetizing your web services. Visit us at the 2008 SOA World Conference and take our test drive challenge. www.quantumxml.com.

3Tera Named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:15:00 EDT

3Tera's Cloudware incorporates the fundamental building blocks used in developing today's most popular applications; storage and computing, software catalog, definition and control, plus how they all relate to each other. More importantly, the architecture is vendor agnostic so that third party vendors, not just 3tera, can participate in the system. The Cloudware architecture supports the most popular operating systems - Linux, Solaris and Windows - and is targeted toward clients who want to explore the extreme scale and flexibility of cloud computing infrastructures quickly and easily.

VMware ESX Validated by Microsoft

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:30:00 EDT

VMware announced it has qualified its VMware ESX hypervisor under the Microsoft Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP). VMware ESX 3.5 update 2 (ESX 3.5u2) is a hypervisor to be listed under the program, providing VMware customers who run Windows Server and Microsoft applications with access to cooperative support from Microsoft and VMware.

Amazone Chooses Ericom's Virtualization Solution

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:15:00 EDT

Ericom announced that Amazone has replaced its Citrix infrastructure with Ericom's PowerTerm WebConnect RemoteView software. PowerTerm WebConnect RemoteView provides Amazone's employees with secure and centrally managed access to applications running on Windows Terminal Servers (WTS), including their Sage Bäurer Industry ERP system.

The ESB - SOA Hullaballoo

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:15:00 EDT

With multiple ESB platforms, you are still providing a very good way to bring underlying business applications and transaction systems to bear with an integration and messaging framework, sometimes with business process management as well. Yes they are different systems, but they can be pulled together effectively as long as the validation is there, and as long as the multiple teams have a means to virtualize their dependencies and continue developing and testing new functionality.

JMSL Numerical Library for Java Applications

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:15:00 EDT

The JMSL Numerical Library is the broadest collection of mathematical, statistical, financial, data mining and charting classes in 100% Java. It is the only Java programming solution that combines integrated charting with the reliable mathematical and statistical functionality of the industry-leading IMSL Numerical Library algorithms. Organizations can gain insight into valuable data and share analysis results across the enterprise quickly.

SCO - Linux' Worst Nightmare Is Back

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:15:00 EDT

The court also said Novell couldn't run interference for Linux and stop SCO from seeking royalty payments for alleged UnixWare and OpenServer infringement by Linux users under its infamous SCOsource licensing program. , it's merely a matter of time before SCO starts seeking those payments.

Move Over Dot.Com

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:30:00 EDT

Brace yourself for a new era of creative web addresses. ICANN, the non-profit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has opened up top-level domains, the little .com, .org, .gov, .edu, .net suffixes or country abbreviation at the end of a web address, to any styling the human mind can conceive - and in scripts other than Roman - provided the creator coughs up $100,000.

SOA World: WSO2 Boosts Scalability, Availability and SOA Governance with v 1.7 of Open Source ESB

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:15:00 EDT

WSO2 has today announced the availability of the open source WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Version 1.7 to support enterprises' heterogeneous, high-volume service-oriented architecture (SOA) demands. The WSO2 ESB 1.7 offers new enhancements to stability and availability - resulting in scalability and error-free connections for high-volume SOA environments, even on standard hardware.

Fujitsu Named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's SOA World Conference & Expo

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:15:00 EDT

Ranked by Gartner as a leader in the Application Infrastructure Software market, Fujitsu helps companies build SOA-enabled BPM applications that can be shared across the enterprise to lower operating costs, accelerate business processes, and react quickly to changing market requirements. Fujitsu's BPM Suite, Interstage Business Process Manager, brings business and IT professionals together to design, simulate, automate, analyze, and optimize business processes. Together with CentraSite, Fujitsu's standards-based SOA registry and repository, Fujitsu helps companies take a process-driven approach to SOA. This top-down approach allows for collaboration on translating real business models into optimized, executable business processes while letting an organization reuse their existing Visio process maps, IT infrastructure and other SOA assets to reduce operational costs and maximize business efficiencies.

Ceedo Named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:30:00 EDT

Ceedo Technologies has developed patent-pending virtualization technology that takes a suite of standard off-the-shelf Windows applications, and virtualizes them in real-time, creating a portable virtual desktop, which launches on any Windows host PC with no need to pre-install any software, drivers or agents. Ceedo's portable virtual desktop runs on top of and leverages the exiting Windows OS on the host PC, thus eliminating the licensing costs, footprint and performance penalty of a full virtualized OS, and works fully in user mode, enabling operation on locked-down PCs. Ceedo's technology enables the most cost-effective solutions for many enterprise scenarios such as remote access, disaster recovery, and creating a managed enterprise 'island' on employee-owned and subcontractor-owned PCs. Ceedo provides the Enterprise IT with tools to fully customize the user interface, remotely deploy new applications, and update existing applications.

Transforming the Enterprise: Where Virtualization Meets Automation

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:30:00 EDT

Virtualization is the future of IT management, but what exactly does that mean to your organization? CIOs around the world recognize that virtualization could be the answer to combating skyrocketing costs associated with managing their IT infrastructure; however, many are still left wondering how to implement a long-term, sustainable virtualization strategy. In this session, BMC Software CTO, Tom Bishop, will explain how IT organizations can realize the full value of virtualization through aligning IT with business priorities and automating IT processes.

Service Oriented Unified Process

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:45:00 EDT

Service orientation is one of the most popular trends of these recent years, but there are not any metrics on it. Hence you can not consume SOA in a project with a specific measuring. On the other side, Unified Process (especially RUP) has powerful abilities on such developments. In our discussion Chris Shayan is going to demonstrate that we can combine SOA and RUP with each other and finally make a Service Oriented Unified Process.

Is This the Birth Of Web 3.0?

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:30:00 EDT

Is Web 3.0 yet another buzzword, or is it a real turnaround in our industry? Web 1.0 was the good old web of the 1990s. In those times, all client-side changes were the result of a server round-trip. The Internet was ramping up in popularity. Web 2.0 has been a little more than just a technological evolution.

98% of Enterprises Implementing Virtualization Are Using Multiple Platforms

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:00:00 EDT

ComScore has upped Google's US search share. It was 59.8% in March and now for April it's 61.6%. It gave Yahoo 20.4% and Microsoft 9.1%. HP and Foxconn International, a unit of Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision Industry, the big contract manufacturer, are building a $50 million factory outside St Petersburg where they will produce a half-million PCs a year for the Russian market starting next year. It could become a hub for the Baltic states and Scandinavia. Hon Hai, meanwhile, is going to start making laptops.

White Paper: "OpenAjax Alliance on Mobile AJAX and Recent Browser Advances"

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:15:00 EDT

The OpenAjax Alliance has recently published two new white papers, one on Mobile AJAX and one on recent browser advances. The first white paper, Introduction to Mobile AJAX for Developers, provides an overview of AJAX application development for mobile devices. The second white paper, Good News for AJAX - The Browser Wars Are Back, highlights the major changes in the browser world that are manifesting themselves in this year's browser releases (i.e., IE8, Firefox3, Safari 3.1, Opera 9.x).

Virtualization - Sun Jumps the Gun on Flash

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:45:00 EDT

Sun is rushing in where other server vendor have so far feared to tread and says that starting in the second half it will offer servers and storage based on Flash, the pricey kind of widgetry found in cell phones and MP3 players. It claims it will be ahead of the curve and that by the middle of next year Flash will be in most servers, displacing DRAM, increasing systems performance and eating considerably less energy.

Wind River Plans Linux Platform for MIDs

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:45:00 EDT

Wind River says it's collaborating with Intel and will develop an open, extensible Moblin-based Linux platform for Atom-bearing MIDs. Both open source and commercial versions should be available next year. The commercial Wind River Linux Platform for Mobile Internet Devices is supposed to be a full-featured, commercial-grade Linux platform that includes a Linux distribution, middleware and mobile applications that deliver rich Internet and media experiences.

Sun's Sales Boss Jumps to HP; Sun Reorgs Sales

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:30:00 EDT

HP Tuesday named Don Grantham, Sun's global sales and service boss, and an ex-IBMer, its chief sales officer responsible for enterprise accounts and public sector sales as well as sales to the communications, media and entertainment, financial and manufacturing and distribution industries. He will report to Ann Livermore, head of HP?s Technology Solutions Group and run worldwide alliance sales, sales compensation, global pre-sales, sales support, sales operations and go-to-market 'effectiveness.' Grantham, who was at Sun for the last nine years, replaces Andy Mattes, who is now going to run HP's outsourcing services business.

Dell Found Guilty of Deceptive Business Practices

Fri, 30 May 2008 01:15:00 EDT

Some of Dell's service chickens have come home to roost. A New York State Supreme Court judge Tuesday found Dell and Dell Financial Services (DFS) guilty of fraud, false advertising, deceptive business practices and abusive debt collection practices. It will take further hearings for the court to determine how much restitution Dell will have to pay its customers and what fine the state will impose.

Fujitsu Named "Gold Sponsor" of SOA World Conference & Expo

Thu, 29 May 2008 14:15:00 EDT

SugarCRM Betas New Product Line

Tue, 27 May 2008 14:15:00 EDT

SugarCRM has pushed out a closed beta of Sugar Data Center Edition (DCE), a new product line, due this summer, described as a complete set of system management provisioning and monitoring tools so service providers and large organizations can deploy and handle multiple instances - as in distinct versions of SugarCRM meant to serve the different needs of different business units - from a central console.

Where Are We with SOA ...and Where Do We Need to Be?

Thu, 22 May 2008 15:45:00 EDT

The success of SOA runs two ways. SOA serves as the catalyst for organizational change, yet an organization must be ready to embrace these new dimensions opened up by SOA. The latest survey data shows most organizations are just starting on their SOA journeys. Why do enterprises set out to build a Service Oriented Architecture, but end up with a 'Service Averse Architecture'? There are many promises being made about the potential of SOA these days, followed by disillusionment as these promises don't pan out. However, SOA is more than a single IT project or even a series of implementations. Rather, SOA represents a long-term change in thinking and management of all aspects of the enterprise. SOA not only decomposes technology into loosely coupled systems, but also decomposes organizations into 'loosely coupled businesses.' This session will look at the latest survey data on ways organizations are embracing service oriented architecture, and how far along the road most are from full-functioning SOA.

SOA World - Swiss University Partners with SAP

Wed, 21 May 2008 13:30:00 EDT

SAP announced findings of a research effort conducted with the University of St. Gallen that show IT projects based on a service-oriented architecture (SOA) improve software reusability, reduce operations cost and offer substantial process efficiencies. As SOA is currently undergoing mass adoption and establishing itself as a de facto technology standard for implementing software architectures for increased flexibility and simplified integration, organizations are looking for more economic justification for their initial SOA projects. The study focuses on the SOA business-value proof points that organizations are using to convey the benefits of an SOA strategy to decision makers.

Web 2.0 Server and Push Technology Market Shares Strategies, and Forecasts, 2008 to 2014

Wed, 21 May 2008 11:00:00 EDT

Research and Markets has announced the addition of 'Web 2.0 Server and Push Technology Market Shares Strategies, and Forecasts, 2008 to 2014' to their offering. Advertising budgets have not been directly connected to the computer and technology before the Web 2.0 companies started attracting advertising dollars. The massive reach of Google has attracted to advertising dollars into the computer industry. Even thought the proportion of total advertising spending on Internet advertising is relatively low, the impact on the computer industry is large.

San Diego Supercomputer Center Brings History of Redlining to Life With Assist from Caringo

Tue, 20 May 2008 21:45:00 EDT

Caringo announced an ambitious project by the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California San Diego to bring Redlining grids to UC campuses which are stored in a Caringo CAStor cluster. The implementation has started with a CAStor clustered storage pool that is initially tasked with archiving The Redlining Archives of California's Exclusionary Spaces (T-RACES).

DataSynapse's Gordon Jackson to Present at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo

Mon, 19 May 2008 14:30:00 EDT

There is considerable attention being paid to service oriented architectures (SOA) and their promise of leveraging new and existing application components - services - in composite applications that may span multiple business units within an organization. While the construction, or enablement, of these services is well defined, what is often left as an assumption is that once deployed, the service will simply be available. The reality is that if consideration is not given to the reliability, availability and recoverability of your services, then you may find yourself leaping from the frying pan and into the fire. This presentation will discuss the use of service virtualization and grid technology to enable service execution. Using existing grid technologies, organizations can achieve guaranteed, horizontal scaling of service execution across the entire computing infrastructure, regardless of demand. The result is an infrastructure for deploying, managing and scaling services that delivers the confidence that, when called, your service will be available.

Marathon Technologies and Citrix Systems Deepen Their Partnership

Mon, 19 May 2008 14:00:00 EDT

Building on a goal to make virtualization and availability ubiquitous, Marathon Technologies Corporation announced an expanded strategic partnership with Citrix Systems. The broader agreement involves tighter integration of Citrix XenServer and Marathon everRun VM, and establishes Marathon as a preferred high availability partner. The expanded partnership includes closer sales and marketing collaboration, as well as validation of Marathon everRun as one of the first Citrix Ready high availability solutions. The results of these efforts will be turnkey, automated availability and disaster recovery solutions that deploy in minutes and work with little or no IT intervention. These solutions are suited for both mid-market customers with very limited IT resources and larger customers who need to do more with less in a slowing economy, both of whom can consolidate more of their applications.

Virtualization For Dummies

Mon, 19 May 2008 09:00:00 EDT

F5 Networks announced that it has launched the File Virtualization For Dummies program with Wiley Publishing that offers the For Dummies guide along with a supporting webinar. Keeping in line with Wiley's For Dummies guides, this program offers a pragmatic approach to a pervasive issue. The guide and webinar outline the problems created by today's storage deployments, along with the information that IT staff needs to help manage and solve the associated problems. The overall goal of the program is to help enterprise IT staff get a grip on storage growth and reduce costs.

WebLogic Portal 10.2 Released By BEA Systems

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:30:00 EST

BEA announced the availability of BEA WebLogic Portal 10.2. This new release solidifies the mission- critical enterprise portal capabilities and introduces enhancements designed to build more dynamic and interactive experiences. Numerous improvements are focused on developer and end-user productivity including AJAX development, dynamic tools for modifying portal content and style and increased security capabilities. Additionally, BEA continues to innovate in the presentation layer architecture by adding support for Web 2.0 interactivity, portal federation, mashup, and composite application capabilities.

Five Live SYS-CON.TV Demos Show NetBeans 6.0 Being Put Through Its Paces

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:15:00 EST

As developers continue to migrate to NetBeans from other IDEs, the NetBeans community has experienced tremendous growth. To date there have been more than 16 million downloads and a 300% increase in email list subscribers during the past three years, and now NetBeans 6.0 has been released, a historic milestone celebrated in this exclusive SYS-CON.TV interview with NetBeans Technology Evangelist Gregg Sporar, during which Sporar gives an in-depth glimpse into the many new features of this release by means of five meticulously prepared live demos.

NetSuite IPO Flies Up, Up and Away

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:30:00 EST

First on Tuesday the number went from $13-$16 to $16-$19 and then on Wednesday to $19-$22 only to finally settle Wednesday night at $26 (after Oracle posted its latest glorious numbers), meaning NetSuite has raised almost $161.2 million and got itself a market cap of upwards of $1.5 billion - more than enough to pay Larry back the $8 million it owes him. The auction was supposed to price the shares closer to their actual market value than a typical IPO, which usually prices shares at a discount. Naturally, there are those who say the thing is overvalued. They've had practice saying that lately about VMware and VMware is in a lot better place than NetSuite. Ah, but the glamour of the Ellison name.

BEA WebLogic Server Leverages Java 5, Previews SCA

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:00:00 EST

'BEA established itself as the enterprise Java leader in being the first major vendor to market with Java EE 5, and we're doing it again for application composition with Service Component Architecture,' said Guy Churchward, BEA's vice president of WebLogic products and a past speaker at Virtualization Conference & Expo. He was speaking as BEA announced this week a preview release for WebLogic Server 10.3 of SCA, a set of open standards that can help enable developers to leverage SOA to assemble composite applications from heterogeneous components.

Can You Believe These Shameless Head Hunters?

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:15:00 EST

Why are you opening private message directed to someone else? This is a private message not directed or intended for you. As I'm a long time member of the HR community - shame on you! Eileen Sirrell

BEA Didn't Exactly Convince Wall Street That It's Worth the $21 a Share

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:30:00 EST

The WebLogic Communication Platform also reportedly delivered its strongest quarter ever. BEA has seeded WebLogic Server Virtualization Edition in key accounts and says it got referenceable results. These products, along with Project Genesis for the next generation of dynamic business applications, are supposed to give BEA growth opportunities. BEA has scheduled its annual shareholders meeting for February 14. Its largest shareholder Carl Icahn may have something to say about that.

BEA Systems Could Go For $15-$18 a Share

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:30:00 EDT

Renewed - or maybe the word is just louder since it's been pretty constant - speculation that BEA is up for grabs has Credit Suisse, for one, believing that the company is in play and that it could go for $15-$18 a share. It says, 'While management may still be hesitant about selling the business, it's our opinion that they are rapidly losing the ability to influence the decision' - a situation that would be clinched by another weak quarter after the 'April Q1 disappointment [that] was the spark that set a series of events in motion that should lead to a positive outcome for shareholders.'

Shameless Online Marketing: BEA Workshop Studio for $99!

Mon, 21 May 2007 18:30:00 EDT

TheServerSide and BEA have come together to offer TSS readers BEA Workshop Studio 3.3, normally $899 USD, for $99 USD until May 31, 2007. This is part of what will become integrated with Workshop for WebLogic 10 (announced yesterday on TSS), and contains many of the same features. The upgrade to 10.1 Studio is included for this price, so if you purchase 3.3 now, you'll be able to upgrade.

IBM: You See an Outline Emerging Here?

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:15:00 EDT

Connect these dots. Jim Cramer calls for the head of IBM CEO Sam Palmisano because of the company's stuck-in-a-rut stock price. The Wall Street Journal runs a profile, complete with sketch, of IBM software boss Steve Mills, the man now making the lion's share (40%) of IBM's pre-tax profits. IBM reports its first-quarter results Tuesday in which everything including services is unexciting except software, which helped along by acquisitions, was up 9% to $4.3 billion in revenue. There are concerns about weaker US enterprise spending as well as execution. Even software saw some margin deterioration and slowing growth in key branded middleware like WebSphere and Tivoli. IBM's stock drops three bucks.

Cassatt and PlateSpin Team on Products, Services to Reduce Cost and Complexity, Make IT More Responsive

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:00:00 EDT

Cassatt and PlateSpin, have announced a new technology and business relationship to accelerate the move of large enterprises to consolidate their servers and implement automated data center management, with the goal of making IT more responsive to business needs. Cassatt is an emerging leader in software for automating the management of large, diverse data centers for more efficient and dynamic utility computing. PlateSpin's software analyzes resources and provides operating-system portability between physical and virtual environments.

Stratus Technologies Joins VMware Community Source Program

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 03:15:00 EDT

Stratus Technologies, Inc. announced today its membership in the VMware Community Source program, which enables Stratus to collaborate on highly available and reliable virtualization solutions. The program provides Stratus and other vendors with the opportunity to work with VMware on VMware ESX Server source code development and product direction under a royalty-free license. Program members may use the source code to contribute shared code to the community or to interface their own differentiated, intellectual property-protected products with VMware ESX Server.

Carly Headhunter Charged with Drug-related Homicide

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:30:00 EDT

Jeff Christian, the guy who started Christian & Timbers and the headhunter who got Carly Fiorina the CEO job at HP, is going to be tried for reckless homicide and involuntary manslaughter in the drug overdose death of another executive recruiter, 31-year-old Thomas Wasil, according to a centerfold story in BusinessWeek