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Dell Wants to Show Its Rugged Side
Dell wants to show its customers that its notebooks can be tough too. The Round Rock, Texas, PC maker is launching on Jan. 16 its first-ever “semi-rugged” notebook—the Latitude ATG (all-terrain grade) D620—which will compete for market share against well-known rugged models such as the Panasonic ToughBook and General Dynamics’ Itronix GoBook. In creating a…
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HP Targets Dell with Ad Campaign Showcasing VARs
Hewlett-Packard put Dell customers in its sights this month with a two-tier advertising campaign designed to promote the value that those buying directly from a vendor could gain by switching to a VAR for products and services. National ads proclaiming, “What could be more direct than face to face?” and “Meet your friendly neighborhood technology…
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Sun Restructures Solaris Channel, Subscriptions
Sun Microsystems has launched a suite of new Solaris support subscriptions and restructured its reseller program as it moves to aggressively compete with its commercial Linux competitors like Red Hat. “We are delivering a whole new suite of service packages that will make us competitive against our Linux competitors like Red Hat,” Peder Ulander, the…
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uXcomm Brings SOA Flexibility to Management Framework
Systems management platform provider uXcomm on Jan. 17 will launch a new architecture and products based on it that are designed to be to management applications what SOA is to business applications. The new SOMA (Service-Oriented Management Architecture) and follow-on uXcomm XManage Server Edition and XManage Information Appliance Edition products based on SOMA are aimed…
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Oracle Plugs 51 DB, Server Holes
Oracle has released its first critical patch update for 2007, with fixes for a total of 51 security vulnerabilities in a wide range of enterprise products. The Redwood City, Calif., database server giant’s patch batch covers serious holes in Oracle Database, Oracle Application Server, Oracle Collaboration Suite, Oracle E-Business Suite and Applications, Oracle Enterprise Manager…
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Apps Vendors Announce New Retail-Based Software at NRF
Big-name business applications vendors—Microsoft, Oracle, Lawson and (on the business intelligence front) Cognos each made a splash with new software announcements at the National Retail Federation’s Big Show event in New York on Jan. 16. The bevy of new offerings could help businesses in the retail sector move forward with electronic initiatives. Microsoft, for example,…
