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HP Partner Enhancements Focus on Storage, Government
Despite having no worldwide channel chief, Hewlett-Packard has soldiered on with more changes to its PartnerOne channel program. Stacey Wueste Davis, vice president of Solution Partners Organization partner development and programs, is the de facto head of HP’s worldwide channel program, after Jim McDonnell left his position as senior vice president and general manager of…
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Dell Announces Ubuntu 7.10 PCs with DVD Playback
Dell has told DesktopLinux.com that it will be announcing Dec. 19 that it will be releasing PCs with Ubuntu 7.10 (aka Gutsy Gibbon) as part of its Dell Consumer Linux lineup along with the ability to legally play DVDs. According to Dell spokesperson Anne B. Camden, the “Dell Inspiron 530N desktop and Inspiron 1420N notebook…
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Software Sales Boost Oracle
BOSTON (Reuters)—Oracle Corp said on Wednesday that quarterly profit rose 35 percent as new software sales soared, beating expectations at a time when investors are nervous that IT spending is slowing, and its shares climbed 4 percent. The world’s No. 2 publicly held software maker reported fiscal second-quarter net income of $1.3 billion, or 25…
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Signs of Economic Times Call for More Caution
One of the great things about the channel is that hope, especially at the beginning of any new year, springs eternal. So it should come as little to no surprise that out of 393 solution providers surveyed in Ziff Davis Enterprise’s Outlook 2008 study, the parent company of Channel Insider, 74 percent of them said…
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Means to an Endpoint
Today’s security product landscape is littered with solutions, each promising network protection, yet breaches continue to happen at an alarming rate. According to the latest survey conducted by the think tank Ponemon Institute, the costs of security breaches have risen 43 percent since 2005. That rise has been driven by affected companies scrambling to notify…
