Stampede Technologies, provider of enterprise acceleration solutions, announced the release of new client software technology that provides Acceleration On-Demand capability for enterprise applications. Compatible with Stampede’s previous HTTP/HTTPS client that required software to be installed on client devices, this new technology does not require remote devices to be touched or installed with new software. Acceleration On-Demand automatically "injects" the necessary client software into the proper Web pages, and functions with either the Stampede Application Acceleration Series or the Stampede Web 2.0 Acceleration Performance Series solutions.

Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy has stepped down as chief executive, and has been replaced by President Jonathan Schwartz, the company said Monday. McNealy who will stay on as chairman, was one of four co-founders of Sun 24 years ago and has been CEO for the last 22 of those. Since then, he has been a strong and often contrarian voice for change in the computing industry, but in recent years his vision hasn’t translated into financial success.

Sun Microsystems finally got the memo on what kind of CEOs succeed in today’s technology market. Unfortunately, it came too late. Sun has announced that chatty CEO Scott McNealy would hand the reins to Jonathan Schwartz, who steps up to the plate to be chief executive. The move is likely to be applauded by Wall Street, which was becoming weary of McNealy and his inability to do a drastic restructuring that would make Sun consistently profitable. The bottom line is today’s successful CEOs look a lot like Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd. They stay quiet, focus on operations and the customer, get the job done and let the numbers do the talking. But Sun didn’t make a move, even as industry leaders such as General Electric and Citigroup replaced flashy chief executives with the strong, relatively silent types.

Sanjay Kumar, the former chief executive of CA, pleaded guilty on Monday to charges of financial fraud, part of a bookkeeping scandal that tarred the software company’s image. Kumar made the plea at a hearing with Judge I. Leo Glasser at the U.S. Attorney’s office in Brooklyn, N.Y., according to a representative for that office. The former CEO was indicted in September 2004 on charges of manipulating CA’s finances illegally.

A startup funded by the U.S. government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is ready to emerge from stealth mode with hardware and software-based technologies to fight the rapid spread of malicious rootkits. Komoku, of College Park, Md., plans to ship in the summer a beta of Gamma, a new rootkit detection tool that builds on a prototype used by several sensitive U.S. government departments to find operating system abnormalities that may be linked to malicious rootkit activity. Rootkits modify the flow of the kernel to hide the presence of an attack or compromise on a machine. This gives a hacker remote user access to a compromised system while avoiding detection by anti-virus scanners.

ReSoft announced the release of a white paper exploring today’s enterprise challenges in E-discovery and why today’s email archiving solutions alone are unable to meet an organization’s E-discovery Response Service Level. The paper describes how the Clearwell Email Intelligence Platform, for which ReSoft is an authorized reseller, can transform the way enterprises discover, organize and analyze the information across their corporate email systems without disrupting production operations.

The Los Angeles Times suspended one of its blogs after discovering that the author used an alias to post material at Web sites operated by the Times and others, which is a breach of the Times’ ethical policies. The blog in question is Golden State, which is written by Pulitzer Prize-winning Times columnist Michael Hiltzik. The L.A. Times explained in a "Notice from the Editor" posted April 20 that Hiltzik admitted to using an alias, but wasn’t more specific. "The Times is investigating the postings," the editor’s note said.

SyberWorks, provider of custom e-Learning Solutions and the Learning Management System industry, announced a new article available in the SyberWorks Online Media Center: 12 Ways to Use Web-based Learning Management Systems for Customer Acquisition and Retention in Business-to-Business Environments. The purpose of this article is to illustrate how Learning Management Systems can be used for customer acquisition and retention. The various features of a Learning Management System, such as email ticklers, threaded discussions, web-based courses, web conferences, and others, can be used to engender a long-term relationship with your customers.

VMware and several business partners have begun an initiative called the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Alliance to try to replace individual PCs with virtual machines on a much smaller number of servers. The alliance includes Citrix, ClearCube Technology, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Wyse Technology, Sun Microsystems, Altiris and Softricity. VMware’s virtualization software, like rival technology from Microsoft and Xen, lets a single computer run several operating systems in compartments called virtual machines.

The Learning Continuum Company’s new distance learning course, Developing Domino 7 Web Applications will teach experienced Notes and Domino developers the ins and outs of how to make an application function and look great on the Web. Students learn to get the most from forms, views, and frames when displayed using a Web browser. The course covers how to use layers, CSS, and image resources to enhance an application. It also covers how the Domino server interprets URL commands and how to secure an application. There are many demonstrations and activities done right in Domino Designer to provide hands-on experience, no simulations are used. A Domino Server is not required.