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April 18, 2005 Issue <<Contents>>

FEATURE The Day May Arrive When the Internet Can No Longer Be Used Because of Rampant Spam and Phishing Attacks - It is very likely that the convenience of the Internet will be lost due to phishing and spam. In other countries, some companies have been forced to shut down their Internet-based businesses due to phishing attacks. In Japan, delays in e-mail delivery have been caused by spam. The Internet, which is now an established component of the social infrastructure, could collapse in the future if such abuses continue to abound. Growing Damages: A full-scale flood of phishing and spam mail has finally arrived in Japan Phishing: Its tricks are becoming more sophisticated Spam Mail: The amount of spam mail is increasing rapidly due to the proliferation of spam bots On the Front Lines Where Countermeasures Are Implemented: Japan is being left behind in the effort to build international cooperation

PEOPLE

Interview
- We have joined forces with China to become the world's number one company, and we intend to increase the speed of decision-making by eliminating bureaucratism
Hiroyuki Mukai: director, IBM Japan Ltd. (who is scheduled to take over as president of Lenovo's Japanese subsidiary)


Interview
- Our company intends to achieve a top share in the server market within five years, while Linux-based software promotes awareness of intellectual property rights among the Chinese.
Chris Zhao: Executive President, Red Flag Software Co., Ltd.

NEWS

Reports

- The prospects for renovating Japan Airline's maintenance system are bleak

- A subtle shift has occurred in the alliance relationship between Fujitsu and Sun Microsystems

- The Liberal Democratic Party calls on the government to review the large systems of independent administrative corporations

- IT investment by leading medium-size firms is increasing

- Sony Life Insurance has finally replaced Lotus Notes/Domino with newly developed groupware

- The Co-op Net Business Association, which used to use a mainframe system in the past, decides to replace its current Windows NT-based open system with a new mainframe system

- Calbee Foods has introduced SAP's packaged software solutions for business management for the first time in Japan

- Oracle of the United States faces difficulties in integrating ERP products

- The Information Systems Society of Japan is scheduled to be established on April 23, 2005

- OSCAR Alliance launches new services for assisting and acting for CIOs at governments and other public offices

- Companies in the United States start using the SOX Act as leverage to improve their business processes

News Flash for Each Industry

- [Finance] UFJ Central Lease invests ¥7 billion in the renovation of its mission-critical system

- [Service] Central Japan Railway plans to introduce cards embedded with IC chips and provide them to passengers on Shinkansen bullet trains

- [Manufacturing] Suzuki Motor replaces its old supercomputers used in the development of new cars with NEC's vector supercomputers

- [Distribution] Sagawa Express has transferred a portion of the processing work that had been done by general-purpose computers to an open-source-based system

- [e-Japan] Hida City, Gifu Prefecture, plans to build a large facility to back up information systems in an old mining site

TECHNOLOGIES & PRODUCTS

Close-Up
The release by Fujitsu of the latest series of servers rekindles competition in the market

The A to Z of IT Pitfalls
DNS (Domain Name System)

New Products
Anti-spyware software, etc.

CASE STUDIES

A Computer That Does Not Work / The Examination of Misjudgment
Nichirei Corporation
- The company encountered difficulties in introducing a system for refrigerated and frozen warehouse management and a system for transport and delivery management

The Project
Nippon Chemical Industrial Co., Ltd.
- The company has demolished a legacy system that required 1.57 million steps

Close-Up
Improving Development Capability
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
- The company applied quality engineering to software tests, and the number of bugs detected has increased fourfold as a result

IT MANAGEMENT

Real Feelings Expressed by Top Executives
- If you decide to do something, you have to stick it out to the end. Don't be afraid of making mistakes, and don't lie.
Yoshikazu Amano: CIO, Toyota Motor Corporation

Close-Up
The Software Engineering Center launches full-scale operations, aiming at enhancing Japanese companies' software development capabilities
- The center conducted a quantitative analysis of 1000 software development projects undertaken by 15 Japanese vendors

Shiro Baba's “Essays in Idleness” for SEs
- A message to newly hired system engineers: If you are excellent with technology, that still only scores you 50 points out of 100. That's what being an SE is all about!

Conditions for Becoming a Successful SE
- Motivate your subordinates effectively