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Microsoft’s Software Assurance Customers to Get New Tools
Microsoft plans to deliver a set of new software tools designed to remove some of the pain enterprises experience when deploying and managing desktops and applications. The software giant is bundling four of the technologies it has acquired over the past few months into an offering known as the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software…
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Sun Unveils Data Centers in a Box
Sun Microsystems believes the answer to some of the problems of power, cooling and speed of IT deployment in enterprise data centers could be found in a standard shipping container. Sun President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz and other company officials on Oct. 17 will unveil Sun’s Project Blackbox, an initiative in which all the technology…
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Reports Differ on Self-Checkout Value
A report due out Oct. 17 from the IHL Consulting Group sees grocers aggressively moving to upgrade to self-checkout systems, even before they replace or upgrade the aging point-of-sale systems they are based on. But another retail technology report—released Oct. 16 by the Aberdeen Group—has a very different self-checkout take, calling retail self-checkout “an absolute…
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Understanding the Basics of EPCglobal
LOS ANGELES—About 200 people left home a day early to attended a pre-conference event held here in the western wing of the LA Convention Center on Oct. 11 with one goal in mind: figure out what EPCglobal is all about. Questions from audience members were so basic that attendees likely could have gone to the…
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Avnet to Deliver JD Edwards-Microsoft Integration
Distributor Avnet Technology Solutions and Microsoft announced a partnership Oct. 16 to deliver an integrated enterprise resource planning solution for midmarket customers of Oracle’s JD Edwards on Microsoft’s Windows/SQL Server platforms. The partnership allows VARs, many of which are already hitching the application to the platform, to benefit from the Avnet delivery model—building and integrating…
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Microsoft Removes Obstacle to Adoption of Its VHD Spec
Microsoft has decided to make its Virtual Hard Disk image format specification available to users at no cost and with the guarantee that it will never take legal action against them. The VHD format will now be available to anybody wanting to use it under Microsoft’s Open Specification Promise, which the Redmond, Wash.-based software maker…
