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Power Supplies Should Give Dell Food for Thought
Michael Dell has promised a wide-ranging, top-to-bottom housecleaning and restructuring to get his namesake company back on track. That is all well and good, but maybe he should share a plate of ribs in Austin with a company that, by putting some smarts in power supplies, could help Dell and help the tech industry as…
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Free Software Foundation Courts Hardware Vendors
The FSF (Free Software Foundation) is expanding beyond its software boundaries, and reaching out to hardware vendors to encourage them to “work with the free software community” to establish a “mutually beneficial relationship.” It’s all spelled out in a just-published white paper. On March 1, the FSF released “The Road to Hardware Free from Restrictions,”…
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Microsoft Learning Center Targets Beginner Programmers
REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft has launched a new Web site aimed at helping novices learn to write applications and build their own Web sites. Capping its thrust to tap the nascent market for tools for beginners, Microsoft launched its new Beginner Developer Learning Center on March 1. Dan Fernandez, Microsoft’s lead product manager for Visual Studio Express,…
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Oracle Buyout of Hyperion to Hasten BI Sector Consolidation
Oracle’s $3.3 billion acquisition of Hyperion Solutions, a specialist in the field of corporate performance management, has set the fox among the chickens in the broader business intelligence market. This has long been a relatively quiet and sometimes prosperous sector of the enterprise software market, where the corporate acquisitions have been far less costly and…
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AppLabs Puts EMC’s ISVs to the Test
It’s one thing for a major vendor to engage ISVs to create applications designed to run on the vendor’s systems, but it’s another to ensure that those applications will work right. That’s where AppLabs Technologies comes in. AppLabs tests the applications for compatibility and to make sure the ISVs are following the proper protocols in…
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Managed Services Create a New Distribution Conundrum
As the channel continues to slowly move towards embracing business models around managed services, you can’t help but wonder what might be the downstream implications this business model might have on distributors. With the exception of Ingram Micro and Avnet, the distribution community has been lukewarm about the concept of managed services. What’s giving most…
