Year: 2006

  • The Vanishing Veg-Out Vacation

    The Vanishing Veg-Out Vacation

    Deborah Rothberg

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    Shortened workdays before big holidays are an increasingly rare occurrence, finds a survey released Nov. 15 by Hudson Employment, a New York-based staffing and outsourcing company. Half of the workers surveyed responded that their companies do not offer them any extra flexibility around the holidays, and 54 percent say their office is no more casual… Read more

  • Dell Beats Wall Street Estimates in Q3

    Dell Beats Wall Street Estimates in Q3

    Scott Ferguson

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    Despite a delay of almost a week, Dell released its fiscal third-quarter results on Nov. 21 and beat Wall Street estimates with a net income of $667 million. For the fiscal quarter that ended Nov. 3, the Round Rock, Texas PC maker posted revenue of $14.38 billion, a 3.5 percent increase from last year, and… Read more

  • IBM’s International Intrigue

    IBM’s International Intrigue

    Michael Vizard

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    IBM likes to talk about the fact that it is not in the application software business and therefore is a better partner for ISVs because it doesn’t compete with them directly. Of course, the problem that IBM faces is that behemoths like SAP and Oracle have taken up so much of the market that they… Read more

  • IBM Sees Novell-Microsoft Deal Benefiting Linux

    IBM Sees Novell-Microsoft Deal Benefiting Linux

    Steven Vaughan-Nichols

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    Just about everyone has expressed an opinion on the Novell-Microsoft patent agreement—except, that is, for the 800-pound gorilla of Linux: IBM. Today, Scott Handy, IBM’s VP of Worldwide Linux and Open Source, decided that enough was enough and it was time to state IBM’s position. In an interview with Linux-Watch.com, Handy opened by saying that,… Read more

  • CompTIA Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks

    CompTIA Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks

    John Hazard

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    Robert G. Parsons first realized he needed some guidance on where his business was headed when he began hiring young sales representatives a few months ago to push the products and services of his company, Automated Office Solutions, a VAR in Evansville, Ohio. The firm had seen a dip in profitability proportional to the dip… Read more

  • Microsoft’s Indemnification Card

    Microsoft’s Indemnification Card

    Channel Insider Staff

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