Year: 2005

  • Sun Launches StarOffice 8

    Steven Vaughan-Nichols

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  • Oracle Faces Uphill Climb with Channel Plans

    Pedro Pereira

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    It appears Oracle has finally discovered small and midsize businesses. While just about every other company in the IT universe has been tripping over itself to capitalize on that lucrative market, the Redwood Shores, Calif., database giant has kept busy buying enterprise software companies. But Oracle this week signaled some interest in the upper end… Read more

  • Peregrine’s Channel Is the Real Value For HP

    Peregrine’s Channel Is the Real Value For HP

    Elliot Markowitz

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    Hewlett-Packard is touting its planned acquisition of Peregrine Systems as a major step forward in its overall business software evolution strategy to strengthen its OpenView offering and add configuration management database technology to its arsenal. However, if HP executives keep their eye on the ball, one of the most important components of this deal could… Read more

  • True North’s On-Demand Solution Ups the Ante

    True North’s On-Demand Solution Ups the Ante

    John Hazard

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    Douglas Nassaur imagines many scenarios for using his company’s hosted solution. “Try opening an e-mail with a file for a program you don’t own, renting the program for the day and installing it on your desktop in seconds, all while running Windows from your Mac at a Starbucks,” he spells out. “With our technology, you… Read more

  • Misplaced Caution About Open-Source Anti-Spam?

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Given that the new open-source approaches to spam filtering are capable of virtually eliminating unwanted e-mail and preserving the good stuff, why do many companies continue to struggle with spam? Jonathan Zdziarski, the developer of the DSPAM open-source Bayesian spam blocker, believes IT departments of most small- to medium-sized businesses are afraid to try free… Read more

  • Channel Steps Up to Hurricane Rita Preparation

    Alison Diana

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    As Hurricane Rita made its slow, painful progression toward Texas and Louisiana, resellers, disaster-recovery service providers and technology vendors made all-out efforts to help businesses protect their data. On Thursday, NovaStor Corp. began offering free off-site storage to any small business or systems integrators working with small firms in the projected path of the major… Read more