Year: 2005

  • Interex Disbands, Cancels HP World

    Interex Disbands, Cancels HP World

    Jeffrey Burt

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    Interex, the user group for Hewlett-Packard’s systems customers, has disbanded and canceled next month’s HP World show in San Francisco. Interex officials on its Web site Monday cited financial reasons for shutting down, calling the decision “unavoidable.” The 31-year-old organization had about 100,000 members. “It is with great sadness that, after 31 years, we have… Read more

  • Intel Doubles Down on Linux

    Intel Doubles Down on Linux

    John G. Spooner

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    Intel is asking itself what’s next for Linux. The chip giant recently pulled its disparate efforts to work with the operating system. Those efforts span programs aimed at notebooks, desktops, servers, storage and vertical markets such as telecommunications, together under one roof, creating a Linux Program Office, run by its Software and Solutions Group. Intel… Read more

  • Customers Turn Up Heat on Outsourcing Providers

    John Moore

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    Customers are demanding a lot more of their outsourcing providers. At least that’s what newly released data from market-watcher TPI suggests. The company on Friday reported that 20 percent of the value of outsourcing deals inked in the first six months of 2005 represented restructured contracts as opposed to entirely new awards. That figure compares… Read more

  • VARs Wary of Apple’s Transition to Intel

    VARs Wary of Apple’s Transition to Intel

    Channel Insider Staff

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    The dust has largely settled following Apple Computer Inc.’s announcement that it would use Intel Corp. microprocessors in its Macintosh computers—a shift that will start in some models by mid-2006 and will include all Macs by the end of 2007—but resellers are still trying to analyze the impact the big switch will have for their… Read more

  • N-Able Adds Security Patches to Managed Services

    Pedro Pereira

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    N-Able is partnering with Shavlik to give IT-services providers the ability to remotely secure and update their customers’ systems. N-Able Technologies Inc., of Ottawa, Ontario, Monday added remote security patch management and software updates to its OnDemand managed-services platform. The company is powering its PatchIt Online service with technology from Roseville, Minn,-based Shavlik Technologies LLC’s… Read more

  • Apple Earnings Show Rising Mac Sales

    Apple Earnings Show Rising Mac Sales

    Daniel Drew Turner

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    Industry analysts examining Apple’s Wednesday earnings statement concurred that the most interesting information revealed was the strong growth of Macintosh computer sales. As discussed in Apple Computer Inc.’s fiscal third quarter conference call, sales of Macintosh computers have risen 35 percent over the year-ago quarter, which gave the Apple products triple the sales rate of… Read more