Year: 2006

  • Is Your IT Strategy Wanting?

    Peter Coffee

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    You’d think that the deep-dyed techies of eWeek Labs would have been pleased by November’s mainstream media coverage of popularly priced desktop supercomputing. Unfortunately, the supercomputer in question was Sony’s PlayStation 3, and that coverage had more to do with stalled waiting lines outside big-box stores than with stalled instruction pipelines in the Sony game… Read more

  • Salesforce Targets Integration

    Renee Boucher Ferguson

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    A battle brewing in the business applications market is boiling down to two sides: on-premises versus on-demand software. Salesforce.com, an on-demand vendor in San Francisco that racked up $500 million in revenue in the third quarter of fiscal 2007, is looking to better delineate its integration strategy by announcing Nov. 27 ApexConnect, a family of… Read more

  • Microsoft-Novell Deal Causes Strife

    Channel Insider Staff

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    The controversial deal between Microsoft and Novell is continuing to roil the open-source waters. Just weeks after its patent cooperation agreement with Microsoft, Novell is hitting back at statements by Microsoft executives that the deal acknowledges that Linux infringes on its intellectual property. At the same time, officials with the JBoss division of top Linux… Read more

  • Edgy in name only

    Jason Brooks

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    Having emerged, mostly, from the depths of Windows Vista testing, I’ve turned my attention to Edgy Eft, the latest version of Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux. As its name is meant to imply, this most recent Ubuntu release is supposed to ride the bleeding edge. So far, however, I’ve found it fairly tame. Edgy Eft ships with… Read more

  • SAAS: More, Not Less, Channel

    SAAS: More, Not Less, Channel

    John Hazard

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    When Bluewolf Group unwrapped an on-demand Salesforce.com implementation at the New York Times Co. earlier this year, it was already weeks ahead of the schedule an on-premises solution would have required. But the real work was just beginning. Bluewolf immediately plugged in 700 of the Times’ sales representatives to the Salesforce Enterprise Edition Customer Relationship… Read more

  • When Disaster Strikes

    When Disaster Strikes

    Herman Mehling

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    A natural or man-made disaster can strike anywhere, anytime, with ruthless and devastating results—that’s the awful essence of a disaster. Hurricane Katrina and the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks loom large in the collective memory for the magnitude of their destruction, but smaller-scale, localized disasters happen all the time: a fire in a building, human error… Read more