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Intel, Sun Hint at Future Plans
Three months after announcing that it would form a new partnership with Intel, Sun Microsystems will offer a window into what the collaboration could hold for the future. At Intel’s Developer Forum in Beijing, China on April 17, Sun executives will be on hand to demonstrate its Solaris operating system working a system powered by…
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Webroot Offers Bulk Licenses to System Builders
Spyware and security vendor Webroot Software plans to make it easier for system builders to include its software. The Boulder, Colo., company announced April 17 its Webroot System Builder Program that will allow system builders to buy licenses in bulk from distributor Ingram Micro for desktop and notebook systems rather than one-by-one. Let Your Voice…
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Channel in the Fortune 500
Distributor Synnex made its first appearance in the Fortune 500, Fortune Magazine’s venerable list of the largest companies in the world, holding the spot as the 360th biggest company. Synnex had $6.34 billion in revenue in 2006, a 12.5 percent rise from 2005. The list proved good news for channel companies, with all but Tech…
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Ubuntu 7.04 to Arrive April 19
For Linux business users, the most important Linux release of 2007 so far is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. But for most other Linux fans, the upcoming release of Ubuntu Version 7.04 on April 19 demands more attention. This new v7.04 release encompasses five versions: Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Desktop, Edubuntu, Kubuntu and Xubuntu. Along with…
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Oracle’s ‘X’ Factor
Oracle is developing a new service-oriented architecture strategy that could overtake the momentum around its Fusion Applications initiative, according to sources close to the company. In his keynote address April 16 at the annual Oracle Applications Users Group conference in Las Vegas, Oracle Co-President Charles Phillips is expected to announce a composite application strategy, code-named…
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IBM Rolls Out Reconfigured Midtier Systems, New Services
SAN DIEGO—IBM on April 16 announced two recycled entry-level storage systems and a spate of services to go with them on the first day of Storage Networking World, one of the data storage industry’s largest conferences of the year. The new storage packages are actually enhanced configurations of the IBM System Storage DS3200 and DS3400,…
