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Microsoft Hungry for Acquisitions: Ballmer
SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer refused to say whether the software company was looking to buy either Yahoo or Facebook, despite much prodding from John Batelle, the co-host of the Web 2.0 Summit here Oct. 18. But Redmond does expect to acquire about 20 companies—from $50 million to $1 billion—every year for the next five…
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Demand for High-End Chips Drives Up Intel Profits
Increased demand for high-end, quad-core processors for servers and desktops enabled Intel to post solid financial results for the third quarter. The numbers, released Oct. 16, show the Santa Clara, Calif., company’s net income at about $1.9 billion for the quarter, an increase of 43 percent over the same period last year. Gross margins, a…
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CDW Aims to Help Prevent SMB Mistakes
Small businesses will be able to measure themselves against their midmarket counterparts, learning from their mistakes and successes, following the launch of a benchmarking tool from CDW. The Small Business Technology Assessment Tool is a free online tool that uses CDW’s Business Rearview Mirror survey, published Aug. 20, 2007, as a benchmark against which small…
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It’s Time to Rethink Certification Taxes
One of the things that most solution providers find insulting is the simple fact that they essentially have to pay for the privilege to sell products for the benefit of vendors. The reasons that most vendors have certification programs in the first place is because they believe it’s an effective mechanism for trimming the ranks…
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SAP Rules with Yasu Buyout
SAP intends to acquire business rules management vendor Yasu Technologies, as it continues its acquisition stampede. The deal, announced Oct. 17 at the SAP TechEd conference in Munich, was coupled with news that the vendor is attempting to get closer to the open-source community and also push further into the enterprise SOA (service-orientated architecture) market.…
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Novell Offers Channel Linux Bundle
Novell is offering the first Linux-based desktop-to-server package to SMBs with its Novell Open Workgroup Suite Small Business bundled package. Novell Open Workgroup Suite Small Business Edition, a SUSE Linux-based desktop-to-server solution tailored to meet the needs of small businesses, combines the flexibility and cost efficiency of open-source software with the support of Novell and…
