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Donna Troy to Leave SAP’s Global Channel
SAP’s Donna Troy will resign her post as head of the software maker’s global channel program, company sources revealed Jan. 29. Troy, executive vice president of global SME (small and midsize enterprise) indirect channels, will leave the company soon, following a restructuring of SAP’s channel and sales groups that brought her team and position under…
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Linux and the Channel: Top Distributions for Resellers
I was recently contacted by a major Unix reseller with a very simple question: With the writing on the wall for Unix growing bigger and bigger with every quarter, which Linux should the company adopt? It’s a good question, and the answer depends not just on the pluses and minuses of each Linux distribution, its…
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IBM Researchers Predict More Vulnerabilities in ’07
New research indicates that enterprises will continue to grapple with long lists of dangerous software vulnerabilities during 2007, with experts at IBM predicting continued growth in the number of flaws found in popular products over the next twelve months. According to a report published by IBM’s ISS (Internet Security Systems) X-Force research team on Jan.…
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Salesforce.com, Deloitte Announce Alliance to Bring Apex to the Enterprise
Salesforce.com and Deloitte Consulting are going global with on-demand development capabilities. The two companies announced Jan. 30 a strategic alliance that has Deloitte building out its customer relationship management practice around Salesforce.com’s applications and Apex development platform. As part of the alliance, Deloitte Consulting will incorporate Salesforce.com’s suite of CRM applications, as well as its…
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Data Security Firms Ally to Promote Standards
Eight leading data security companies have joined forces to create an organization to educate the business community on the value of global security standards that protect credit and debit card numbers. The newly formed Payment Card Industry Security Vendor Alliance will assist the PCI Security Standards Council—an organization composed of merchants, banks and point-of-sale vendors—in…
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Vista Shines as Tablet Platform
Microsoft’s decision to incorporate Tablet PC features and functionality into the Windows Vista operating system is one that eWEEK Labs believes will help to convert Tablet PC skeptics. We installed the operating system on two Tablet PCs—Lenovo’s ThinkPad X60 Tablet and Fujitsu’s LifeBook T4215—and found that Microsoft has delivered a much more practical and smoother…
