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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,…

  • Sun to License OpenSolaris Under GPLv3

    Sun Microsystems is set to license OpenSolaris under the upcoming GNU General Public License Version 3 in addition to the existing Common Development and Distribution License, sources close to the company have told eWEEK. OpenSolaris currently is licensed only under Sun’s CDDL, but company executives have previously floated the idea of a dual license with…

  • Cisco Eyes Digital Signage

    Cisco Systems is jumping into the growing digital signage market with the introduction of a new Digital Media Manager and Digital Media Player duo. With its entry, slated for Jan. 16, Cisco is declaring that digital signage is an emerging technology market that could represent a $1 billion business opportunity five to seven years down…

  • Imprivata Protects Deal Registration, Ups Top Margins

    Single sign-on vendor Imprivata has revamped its partner program creating tiers, enabling protected deal registration and upping top margins from 30 to 35 percent. The change comes just two and a half years after the Lexington, Mass. company first introduced its flagship product to the market through a single-tier channel program with the same technical…

  • IT Execs Turn to Channel Brokers

    With an estimate of more than half a trillion dollars in total contract value, multiyear IT outsourcing deals have become so common that IT executives are turning to outsourcing intermediaries to build successful deals, according to a market report released by Forrester Research on Jan. 12. In a worldwide IT and applications outsourcing market now…

  • Study Finds Professional Women Negotiating, Not Opting Out

    Contrary to numerous reports implying that women are increasingly “opting out” of the workforce to attend to families, a study of professional women released Jan. 16 by the Boston-based Simmons School of Management finds that a great majority are instead negotiating more flexible work arrangements. Introducing a career model that seeks to benefit both genders,…

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