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Dear Mr. Gates: Save Vista, Open-Source It
Although Microsoft may claim otherwise, Vista, from both from a technical and business point of view, is proving to be a failure. Why not turn it over to people who have shown time after time that they can deliver the goods? Let’s look at the facts, shall we? Microsoft claimed that more than 20 million…
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Linux Certification Debuts Amid Skills Shortage
The Linux Professional Institute has announced that a handful of individuals have received its LPIC-3 Core certification, the highest level of certification the organization currently offers. And it’s a certification that IT organizations are demanding, according to LPI President and CEO Jim Lacey, as work force development continues to rise on the list of concerns…
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Tax Tips for Techies
Haven’t done your taxes yet? You’re not alone. The IRS estimates that over 20 percent of taxpayers file their returns during the final two weeks of tax season, and while it hasn’t collected data on this, a shocking number probably file the weekend before. Nonetheless, you might want to get on it—you have until 11:59…
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CDW’s ‘Blowout’ March
Direct reseller CDW blew through previous month-month sales records, reporting $696 million in revenue for March 2007, up 19 percent from the previous March, the company said in a statement released yesterday to analysts. Average daily hit $31.6 billion in March, up 24.6 percent over March 2006, when the company averaged $25.4 million, said the…
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Report: CIOs, Stop Squandering Your Time
To add more value to their work, CIOs should stop defining services in technical rather than business terms and should spend less time policing budget priorities, business research firm Gartner advised in a report released April 5. Most CIOs surveyed for the report said they were often stretched too thin between delivering on new enterprise…
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SMBs Get Storage Package for Microsoft Exchange
Data storage vendor NetApp and e-mail management appliance maker Azaleos announced April 12 that they have united to provide a new enterprise-class messaging hardware/software package for SMBs that use Microsoft Exchange servers. Azaleos’ OneServer2 appliance and OneStop managed services basically separate the flow of e-mail from the storage apparatus and act like a traffic cop…
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