Year: 2005

  • WHO’s Next for Satyam

    John Moore

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    Satyam Computer Services Ltd. bested Accenture, IBM and other rivals for an enterprise resource planning system contract with the World Health Organization. The contact calls for Satyam to deploy WHO’s Global Management System. Specifically, Satyam will conduct a global rollout of an Oracle-based ERP system. The enterprisewide installation will include WHO’s regional offices and 140-plus… Read more

  • Reactivity Adds Partners to Build XML Business Apps Market

    Reactivity Adds Partners to Build XML Business Apps Market

    John Hazard

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    XML infrastructure manufacturer Reactivity launched its first channel program Tuesday, partnering with VARs and consultants to broaden the distribution and menu of applications for XML Web services, identity management and service-oriented architecture. A channel partner program will answer the call of many Reactivity Inc. customers for customized, scalable solutions built around their own SOAs, said… Read more

  • Symantec Wins $1 Million in Piracy Case

    Symantec Wins $1 Million in Piracy Case

    Pedro Pereira

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    Security vendor Symantec has been awarded more than $1 million in restitution from a reseller who pled guilty to trademark infringement for pirating the company’s software. The judgment, handed down Wednesday by Judge J. Michael Wilkinson of the 179th District Court of Harris County, Texas, caps a year-long investigation by the Houston Police Department and… Read more

  • EMC Targets SMBs with E-Mail Management Tool

    EMC Targets SMBs with E-Mail Management Tool

    Karen Schwartz

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    In an effort to help small and midsize companies transition from direct attached to network storage and more easily migrate to Microsoft Exchange 2003, EMC has introduced an e-mail management and exchange migration tool that combines and adds functionality to two of the company’s products. EMC Corp.’s Storage Administrator for Exchange combines the original Storage… Read more

  • Channel Roundup: News from Atempo, LSI Logic, WysDM Software, Agilysys, Applix, NeoScale

    Karen D. Schwartz

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    Atempo launches a partner program and taps Bell Micro as a distributor, WysDM and NeoScale also develop partner programs, LSI Logic ships a SAS solution to the channel, Agilysys outlines a partner program for HP partners, and Applix expands its partner program to Sweden. Atempo Announces Partner Program; Bell Micro Will Distribute Products Atempo Inc.,… Read more

  • Nearly Half May Not Make Second Sarbanes-Oxley Deadline

    John Hazard

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    Nearly half of all companies affected by the second round of Sarbanes-Oxley deadlines do not expect to meet the July 2006 target, according to a poll of IT executives facing the deadline. Forty-five percent of U.S. IT executives responding to the survey by instant messaging security vendor Akonix Systems Inc. said their companies were unprepared… Read more