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What No Vegas for PartnerWorld? Phew!
Attendance and attention at IBM PartnerWorld keynotes should improve this year after Channel execs made the call to move the show from Las Vegas to St. Louis. Channel execs said they made the call to move the show after partners expressed some waning interest in a fourth consecutive PW in Sin City. And the city…
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Cyberoam Adds Image Spam, Opportunities for VARs
Cyberoam will integrate Commtouch’s anti-spam technology into its identity-based unified threat management product, further fortifying the spam detection the product offers, the company announced March 5. Commtouch protects against image spam, according to David Glenn, director of North American channel sales for Cyberoam. The company estimates that image spam accounts for 30 percent of all…
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Red Hat Snags Exadel Tools for JBoss
As the EclipseCon conference of Eclipse development platform users opens, Red Hat announced a power move that brings a set of mature, Eclipse-based developer tools for building service-oriented architecture and Web 2.0 applications to Red Hat’s integrated platform, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat, of Raleigh, NC, announced that Exadel,…
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IBM Isn’t Opposed to Oracle Linux
Recent news stories have stated that IBM was refusing to support Oracle Linux. That’s not true. Further investigation has shown there was little follow-up on the original Reuters story, and that some of the confusion came because the story didn’t put IBM’s comments into the proper context. Starting in October, Oracle began shipping its own…
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Microsoft’s OneCare Finishes Last in Anti-virus Tests
A well-regarded anti-virus testing laboratory has released its latest quarterly results, and placed Microsoft’s OneCare anti-virus solution squarely at the bottom of the list. In each of three categories— viruses, macros, worms and scripts; backdoors, Trojans and other malware; and a third category, combining the results of the first two—OneCare received the worst score out…
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Is a Linux Desktop Avalanche Coming?
Slowly, ever so slowly, the Linux desktop has been picking up momentum. It keeps getting better and better, but Microsoft’s monopoly has kept many PC users from realizing that there really is a viable alternative to Windows. However, that’s about to change. Just like a few more snowflakes can turn a quiet, snowy mountainside into…
