Year: 2005
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Microsoft Discovers Midsize Business
Categories: News and TrendsMicrosoft anticipated Microsoft Dynamics and Centro are likely to give the software giant a foot in the mid-market door it has ignored but won’t necessarily make it the dominant force it is in other fields, VARs and analysts said. Saying the midsize market has been neglected, the Redmond, Wash.-based software developer yesterday announced its next… Read more
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Microsoft’s Centro Solution Aims to Boost Midmarket Infrastructure
Categories: News and TrendsMicrosoft Corp. is recognizing the specific needs of the midmarket with a new infrastructure software solution under development known as Centro, which will be released in 2007 as part of the “Longhorn” wave of products. Centro is specifically tailored to address the needs of the midmarket segment, which Microsoft defines as those customers with between… Read more
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Network Appliance Working to Boost Channel Sales
Categories: News and TrendsStorage vendor Network Appliance Inc. is counting on growth of at least 25 percent for the current quarter, but the company’s channel chief says sales growth through partners will be significantly higher. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based vendor in the past year has launched a series of partner-focused programs to boost its channel sales, and the efforts… Read more
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Open Source Offers ERP Alternative
Categories: News and TrendsOpenMFG plans to beef up its channel roster as it plies its hybrid open-source model in the enterprise resource planning market. The Norfolk, Va. company targets small and midsize businesses, with a particular emphasis on manufacturing firms. Ned Lilly, OpenMFG LLC’s president and chief executive officer, said he estimates that there are 300,000 manufacturers in… Read more
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Don’t Forget the Memory—RAM Explained
Categories: Tech CompaniesKeeping It All in Balance As processor speeds have rapidly outstripped the ability of memory to keep pace, achieving system balance has been getting more and more difficult. If an application can’t find the information in the CPU’s on-chip cache memory, then a program can come to a screeching halt while waiting hundreds of CPU… Read more
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Vignette Brings Collaboration, Portals to SMBs
Categories: News and TrendsThe largest companies have used Web collaboration and portals for years to support business and workflow, but price and availability have made the technology all but unattainable to most of the SMB market. The top tier of that market, however, will get its turn this fall, as Vignette Corp., the largest vendor in the field,… Read more