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Google Faces Long Campaign to Win Enterprise Customers
Google is smart to play coy about whether its online business application bundle is aimed at cutting into Microsoft Office’s dominance on the enterprise desktop. It has a lot of work to do yet before an online suite like the newly introduced Google Apps Premier Edition can seriously challenge the solid position of Microsoft Office…
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Gartner: Server Shipments Increased Nearly 9% in 2006
The number of server shipments worldwide grew nearly 9 percent in 2006, with Hewlett-Packard leading with 27.5 percent of the market, according to the latest study by Gartner. IBM led the annual survey in terms of revenue, with $16.9 billion worth of server sales in 2006. That number represented a 1.7 percent increase from the…
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Report: Offshoring to Have No Sudden Bad Effects
While offshore outsourcing is expected to affect wages and employment in developing countries, it won’t have any sudden negative impact on developed countries’ economies, according to a report released Feb. 22 by the McKinsey Quarterly, the business journal of the global management-consulting firm McKinsey & Company. The report “Sizing the Emerging Global Labor Market” attempts…
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Network Intelligence Channel Partners Merged into RSA Program
EMC is merging the channel program of IT security vendor Network Intelligence, which it acquired in September 2005, into the channel program of RSA, acquired by EMC in October 2005, and now considered the parent company’s security division. RSA said Network Intelligence channel partners have been invited to join the RSA SecurWorld program. RSA said…
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Windows Vista Desktops Look Promising
Windows Vista has been available to consumers for nearly a month now. Many new and revamped PCs incorporating Microsoft’s latest operating system have been released, with lots more on the way. So far, we’ve looked at a range of Vista desktops from gaming rigs to all-in-one PCs to low-end machines, and by and large, we’ve…
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Gartner: Service, Support Beat Price in the SMB Market
Service and support trump price for small and midsize businesses. Seventy-three percent of SMBs rated the service and support they received from their technology providers as the most important factor in a buying decision, according to Gartner’s “User Survey Analysis: IT Evaluation Criteria and Channel Preferences in the SMB Market, United States, 2006.” With that…
