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Microsoft and Yahoo … Questions, Questions, Questions
“Exciting” really is not the word. Thrilling, exhilarating, comparable even to the buildup surrounding Super Bowl weekend. The news of Microsoft making a bid for Yahoo has made even the numbest of technophobes sit upright in their La-Z-Boy armchairs. But while the regulators scrutinize the deal, Wall Street and shareholders rub their hands, and online…
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Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion for Yahoo
Microsoft said it had offered to buy Yahoo for $31 per share, which it said represented a 62 percent premium above the company’s closing stock price on Nasdaq on Thursday. "We have great respect for Yahoo, and together we can offer an increasingly exciting set of solutions for consumers, publishers and advertisers while becoming better…
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Channel Vital for Juniper EX Series Switches
Despite previous channel troubles, Juniper is betting on its new EX Series switches and the channel to help it become a real competitor in the enterprise LAN switching market. The vendor has picked 150–200 top-tier providers to commit to making juniper part of their networking practices, according to Mike Banic, senior director of product marketing…
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Palisade to Offer Software Finance Packages to Partners
Data loss prevention technology provider, Palisade Systems, has named former VAR and Arrow strategic account manager Monty Holloway as its new channel chief. In Holloway’s new role as vice president of sales at the company, he plans to do more packaging of financing and other programs to help resellers close deals faster. He also plans…
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What Juniper Networks` Entry into the Switch Market Means for the Channel
The company’s foray into Cisco territory doesn’t end with new training and certification options. Juniper’s launch of enterprise-class Ethernet switches adds yet another piece to the networking infrastructure puzzle. Perhaps those switches are the final piece needed to make Juniper a real contender in the enterprise networking realm. From a technical standpoint, the EX 3200,…
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VARs Still Unsure a Year After Michael Dell`s Return
It’s not your father’s Dell anymore. PC maker Dell has marked a sea change in the last year since its founder, Michael Dell, returned to its helm on Jan. 31. Among the major changes he made to the company he started 23 years ago was to reverse the deeply entrenched direct-only sales approach. Almost immediately…