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From Channel Chief to Analyst: A First-Year Perspective
Leaving the comfort of what I had known for 14 years (no matter how crazy it was)—that of being a channel chief, with a staff (and an assistant, Julie, who I miss every day), sales and quota responsibilities, 300-plus e-mails daily, 12-hour days five days a week, working weekends and travel to wherever a sale…
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Intel Adds 3 Quad-core Chips to the Mix
Taking advantage of the attention lavished on the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Intel is scheduled to roll out three new quad-core processors on Jan. 8. Although CES, which will run from Jan. 8 to Jan. 11, is a showcase for consumer electronics, Intel is using the showroom floor to launch two quad-core…
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Yahoo to Preview Next Generation Messenger at CES
Yahoo is working on an next-generation version of its Messenger product, designed specifically for the upcoming Windows Vista operating system. The Yahoo team has used the Windows Presentation Foundation framework to build dynamic features on top of the core communications features in Yahoo Messenger. “We plan to bring together the best of Yahoo! Messenger’s easy-to-use…
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SharePoint Is Firm Foundation
Lost in the commotion surrounding the arrival of Microsoft’s Windows Vista and Office 2007 was the release of a product that may end up being more important than either of those two platforms, especially on the enterprise side: SharePoint Server 2007. Microsoft considers SharePoint Server 2007 a component of Office, but it’s actually much more.…
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Vendors Find Efficiencies in Outsourced Contract Management
Twenty-three agencies of the U.S. Executive Branch. Hundreds of subagencies. Thousands of order points. Hundreds of systems integrators who implement and maintain the IT needs of the federal government. For vendors, doing business with the feds means keeping tabs on all of the above, meeting separate standards for each and maintaining dozens of contracts. For…
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AJAX Toolkit Lets Web Apps Work Offline
A team of AJAX experts is working on a new capability to enable Web applications to work offline. Brad Neuberg, a San Francisco-based software architect and programmer, said that he, along with the support of some developers at SitePen, of Palo Alto, Calif., is working on the Dojo Offline Toolkit, a small, cross-platform, generic download…
