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Red Hat Signs New Enterprise Client
Red Hat, facing increased competition from the Novell/Microsoft alliance and Oracle, has won a new enterprise customer: Union Bank of California. Union Bank, which is one of the 25 largest banks in the country and has 320 branch offices in California, Washington and Oregon, will standardize its IT infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a…
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Perimeter Acquires Fellow MSP Message Secure
Managed security service provider Perimeter Internetworking acquired smaller rival, Message Secure, thereby adding finance clients and regional presence, both firms announced Jan. 29. The purchase, Perimeter’s ninth in three years, gives the MSP 200 new financial clients, bringing its total in the space to 1,900 customers and improves the Milford, Conn. firm’s coverage in California…
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Big Tech Firms’ Sales Up 16% in Q4
Most enterprise technology companies had strong growth in the fourth quarter, with IBM and Microsoft benefiting from strong sales of software, and EMC and Citrix from acquisitions. The average sales growth among technology companies was 16 percent, according to an analysis by Baseline. The magazine looked at 17 companies with market capitalizations in excess of…
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HP, Gateway Eye Old and New Customers with Vista
As consumers wait for the latest version of Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system to hit the shelves, Hewlett-Packard and Gateway are each angling for the best way to sell the new OS to their customers. On Jan. 29, one day before the official launch, both companies announced that they would offer support and products that…
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IBM Acquires Data Migrator Softek
IBM Jan. 29 said it has agreed to acquire privately held Softek Storage Solutions, of Vienna, Va., to bolster the offerings within its Global Technology Services group. The purchase price was not disclosed. Softek, a host-based data migration software provider founded in April 2000 as a subsidiary of the former Amdahl, provides software and services…
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Vista Chattiness Is in the Eye (Ear?) of the Beholder
Among early adopters of Microsoft’s freshly minted Windows Vista operating system, the strongest reactions so far seem not to revolve around the system’s fancy new looks or its handy search facilities, but rather around Vista’s knack for asking permission to carry out operations that require administrative privileges. Summing up the annoyance felt by many Vista…
