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Amazon’s New Site Pushes Shipping
Amazon.com shook up the e-commerce world Jan. 3, unveiling a new site that offers free overnight shipping for all purchases. The new site—called Endless.com—is focused on the highly competitive footwear and handbag sector, where sites like Zappos.com have long offered free shipping. But by upgrading the free shipping to overnight, Amazon is trying to shake…
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The New Face of Software Distribution
As software increasingly becomes something delivered as bits over a broadband pipe rather than something that comes on a CD in a box, the entire foundation on which software distribution is built today is about to change. And with that change comes the whole question of just who is a distributor of software and what…
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What Will 2007 Bring from Microsoft?
As Microsoft heads into 2007, which will be marked by the general availability of Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange 2007 in late January, analysts weigh in with their predictions for the year. The most interesting of these is the fact that one of the largest challenges Redmond will face in 2007 and beyond is…
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Patch Tuesday: Critical MS Office Fixes Coming
Microsoft’s security response team has announced plans to release eight security bulletins Jan. 9 with patches for a slew of Windows and Office vulnerabilities. Four of the bulletins will deal directly with the Microsoft Office desktop suite, which includes the Microsoft Word software that has been the target of zero-day malware attacks. During December 2006,…
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The Hybrid Model Is Done, or Is It?
It’s tempting to say that the issue of whether you should mix a reselling and distribution model is settled, in light of solution provider Agilysys’ planned divestment of its distribution business. Agilysys was the last of the hybrid dinosaurs—companies with mixed models that touched the user directly while supplying competitors of its direct business. By…
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Lattix Releases New Software Architecture Management System
Lattix has announced Lattix LDM 3.0, which lets managers, architects and developers visualize, specify and maintain the architecture of a complex enterprise software system through models. With its LDM (Lightweight Dependency Model) technology, Andover, Mass.-based Lattix ushered in a new approach known as the DSM (Dependency Structure Matrix), which uses dependencies to create an accurate…
