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OpenOffice Extension Rivals SharePoint
Most people think that OpenOffice.org is a strong office-suite in its own right. But, when it came to a back-office document collaboration and management engine, like Microsoft SharePoint to enable OpenOffice users to work together, it was a different story. Things have changed, with the release by Dutch firm O3Spaces B.V. of a program that…
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AMD Purchases HP Blades
Hewlett-Packard is getting a boost from one its processor partners—AMD. Advanced Micro Devices is purchasing more than more than 700 HP ProLiant BL465c blade servers, a Hewlett-Packard spokesperson said Nov. 21. These servers, which use HP’s Blade System c-Class architecture, already use AMD’s dual-core Opteron processors. The Sunnyvale, Calif., chip maker said it was looking…
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Fleury Seeks Further Investment in JBoss
After six months as part of the Red Hat organization, Marc Fleury, the head of the JBoss division of Red Hat, is looking for an investment for his development team. In an interview with eWEEK at the JBoss World Berlin conference, Fleury, who founded the JBoss company and sold it to Red Hat in April…
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TRX Updates Online Booking Tools for Business Travelers
Business professionals are often required to spend a great deal of time traveling, to meet clients, make new contacts and attend business meetings. To help facilitate the process, TRX, a provider of transaction processing and data integration services, announced Nov. 21 that it has released new versions of its RESX corporate online reservation tool and…
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Red Hat Lands Big Vienna Deal
Red Hat recently announced that the city of Vienna, Austria, has selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux as its server platform of choice. Despite challenges from Oracle, which is copycatting its Linux OS, and Novell, which has partnered with Microsoft, Red Hat is continuing to land large accounts. The Raleigh, N.C., business also has no qualms…
