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Red Hat Gains Service Modeler
Red Hat’s JBoss division is developing a service modeling technology based on a design donated to Red Hat. Thomas Erl, founder of SOA Systems, in Vancouver, B.C., and an SOA (service-oriented architecture) expert, has agreed to contribute the design for his service modeler technology to Red Hat. It will be integrated into the Red Hat…
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Vendors Cast a Shadow Over Managed Services
Recent acquisitions by both Dell and Hewlett-Packard are probably giving solution providers across the spectrum cause for pause as they contemplate the ambitions that major vendors are beginning to harbor towards managed services. As everyone knows by now, Dell moved to acquire SilverBack Technologies, a provider of a platform for managed services that has relied…
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New MBS Chief: Partners Need Stability
Microsoft partners anxious about the new MBS (Microsoft Business Solutions) chief got their chance to meet him at the vendor’s Worldwide Partner Conference July 10 to 12 in Denver. Kirill Tatarinov, the new Corporate Vice President, Windows Enterprise Management Division and head of the MBS division, said the message he has heard from partners is…
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IBM’s Corgel Explores Channel Ecosystem
Mike Vizard:We’ve been talking about the notion of trying to leverage channel echo systems for a long time now. It’s the whole concept of how do I get the traditional solution providers to hook up with ISVs and in turn maybe also connect them back to consultants and the influencers so that we can just…
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HP Buying Opsware for $1.6B
Hewlett-Packard is buying Opsware, a software vendor best known as a provider of data center automation products, for $1.6 billion, the two companies announced July 23. The purchase of Opsware and its line of products will allow HP to integrate that technology into its own burgeoning line of BTO (business technology optimization) software. Combining the…
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ThinkPad X61s is powerful but lightweight platform
Lenovo’s ThinkPad X61s is a small but powerful mobile computing platform. The X-series ThinkPads are Lenovo’s smallest notebooks—8 ¼ inches by 11 inches by 1 inch with the standard four-cell battery. (A system with the eight-cell, high-capacity battery adds another inch at the back.) At just under 3 pounds with the standard four-cell battery), a…
