Recent Articles
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Channel Appears Strong as Fourth Quarter Kicks In
As the fourth quarter kicks into full gear, the channel appears to be on a good footing and solution providers are looking ahead to identify areas of growth in the coming year. The fourth quarter typically is when the highest volume of sales takes place, and this year should be no different, despite some trepidation…
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Red Hat Global Desktop to Appear in November
When Red Hat announced its upcoming Linux desktop at its annual summit in May, the company predicted the Red Hat Global Desktop would be out by September. Now, delayed a bit, the new desktop Linux will be appearing in November, company executives are saying. The delay was caused, Gerry Riveros, Red Hat senior product marketing…
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Sage Software Cleans House
Taylor Macdonald, chief channel and strategy officer for Sage Software, stepped down Oct. 11 as part of an almost wholesale purge of the company’s North American executive staff. Macdonald’s position has been eliminated as Sage Group restructures its management. Also out are Sage Software CEO Ron Verni, Chief Financial Officer Jim Eckstaedt, and Chief Technology…
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BEA to Oracle: No Thanks
The board of directors of BEA Systems has declined Oracle’s offer to acquire the company at $17 per share, saying the bid “significantly undervalues” BEA, according to a report on MarketWatch.com. Oracle announced its intent to acquire BEA earlier in the day on Oct. 12. BEA’s board had sent a letter to Oracle Oct. 11…
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Project Managers, at $84K, Are Best-Paid IT Consultants
As an IT consultant, do you know how much you should be making? This depends, of course, on many variables that are not always easily gauged: experience, skills, industry, education, size and location of company. PayScale, Inc. has created a business model based on providing potential employees with the data needed to negotiate the best…
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Vembu Launches Aggressive Recruitment Drive
Online backup vendor Vembu has signed its 400th partner and is looking to more than quadruple this number within the next year. The firm, which works with service providers selling to SMBs, said 70 percent of its partners are in the United States with the remainder predominantly in Europe. Lakshmanan Narayan, president of Vembu, said,…
