Year: 2005

  • J.D. Edwards Resellers Worry about Oracle Competition

    J.D. Edwards Resellers Worry about Oracle Competition

    John Pallatto

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    REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—J.D. Edwards resellers and system integrators expressed concern Thursday about how big a piece of the market pie Oracle will share with them even as they expressed satisfaction that the enterprise resource product line has a future at least through 2013. Oracle Corp. convened a partner summit for resellers, integrators and ISVs at… Read more

  • You Can’t Turn a Horizontal Reseller into a Vertical One

    Channel Insider Staff

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    I had been wondering how Microsoft’s vertical partner efforts were going. Now I know: Badly. Very badly. Bad enough that One Microsoft—its direct-sales vertical sales force— Read more

  • Digest: News from Microsoft, Shavlik Technologies, Secure Elements

    Karen Schwartz

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    Microsoft unveils plans for the channel at its Worldwide Partner Conference, while Shavlik Technologies and Secure Elements launch new channel partner programs. Microsoft Announces New Solutions at Worldwide Partner Conference At its worldwide partner conference, held this week in Minneapolis, channel partners are learning about new releases of a variety of products that could affect… Read more

  • Oracle Issues Fix for Faulty DB Server Patch

    Oracle Issues Fix for Faulty DB Server Patch

    Ryan Naraine

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    Enterprise software giant Oracle has released a fix for an incomplete database server patch after a private security research outfit discovered that the underlying vulnerability was never addressed. Oracle Corp.’s patch fix comes almost a month to the day after David Litchfield, managing director at United Kingdom-based Next Generation Security Software Ltd., brought the faulty… Read more

  • VARs Could Have Critical Role In IBM’s Global Data Governance Council

    Elliot Markowitz

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    For as long as I can remember, two of the major issues VARs have always complained about have been how they can get closer to and be more integrated into the decision-making process of their vendor partners, and how they can leverage the name brand of those partners to penetrate new end-user accounts. IBM is… Read more

  • Rainfinity Service to Ease NAS Virtualization

    Karen Schwartz

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    Rainfinity Inc., a San Jose, Calif., vendor focused on the IP-based storage market, has announced plans to create a comprehensive service organization designed to promote the adoption of NAS virtualization. The company, whose NFV (Network File Virtualization) platform is designed to provide scalable, continuous access to networked storage, is committed to developing a more responsive… Read more