Year: 2007
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SourceForge Adopts eBay-like Sales Model for Open-Source Software
Categories: News and TrendsOne question that people who don’t know how open-source businesses work is: “How do you make money from open-source software?” SourceForge.net has a new answer to that question: sell services and support to customers using an eBay like market. SourceForge.net, with millions of monthly visitors, is already one of the world’s largest Web sites for… Read more
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HP Targets Enterprise Printing Sector
Categories: News and TrendsHewlett-Packard is aggressively targeting the enterprise printer sector by launching a new channel program that gives VARs incentives to attack the market. The vendor said it has spent the past 18 months developing its enterprise printing offering, including market analysis and identifying 15,000 accounts where HP was either not present or only present as part… Read more
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Intel Launches Managed Services Portal
Categories: News and TrendsIntel is helping to give the European managed service market a kick start by launching software based around a Web portal aimed at helping VARs deliver managed services to SMBs. The chip giant unveiled the Intel Multi-Site Director in Europe, which is available to VARs that will then be able to offer managed services, such… Read more
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Dell to Sell PCs at Best Buy Again
Categories: News and TrendsDell is expanding its presence in U.S. retail outlets by offering its XPS and Inspiron notebooks and desktop computers at more than 900 Best Buy stores, Dell said Thursday. The products, including the Dell XPS One desktop, will be available at Best Buy stores in the next few weeks, said Michael Tatelman, vice president of… Read more
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IBM Acquires Its Own Online Storage Provider
Categories: News and TrendsIBM announced Dec. 6 that it will acquire 10-year-old Arsenal Digital Solutions USA, a privately held online storage services and data protection company, matching moves by EMC and other storage players to add online storage services. Based in Cary, N.C., Arsenal Digital and all 100 employees will become part of IBM Global Technology Services, based… Read more
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Novell Delays Earnings Report
Categories: News and TrendsNovell stockholders were unpleasantly surprised on Dec. 5, when instead of hearing from Novell on how the Linux distributor had done over the last quarter and the full 2007 fiscal year, they were presented with an earnings announcement postponement instead. The cause for this last minute delay was a pair of unresolved issues with the… Read more