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HP Must Choose Wisely When Replacing Thompson
As if Hewlett-Packard didn’t have enough on its hands with boardroom scandals, the company is now searching for a new channel chief. John Thompson, the highly regarded head of the vendor’s North America channel operations, is leaving the post for a new job at HP. HP, of Palo Alto, Calif., faces the significant challenge of…
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Bell Micro Adds Niksun, Second Vendor of Security Push
Distributor Bell Microproducts announced Niksun, a network security vendor, and the second security component as part of a quarter-long security awareness initiative. The deal enables Bell Micro to provide its resellers with Niksun’s full portfolio of security, forensics, compliance, network-to-application availability and performance solutions. Niksun, of Monmouth Junction, N.J., provides a TiVo-like recording capability, the…
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Oracle Outlines Fusion Middleware
SAN FRANCISCO—During his Oct. 24 keynote address here at OpenWorld, Oracle’s annual user conference that brings together Oracle E-Business, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Siebel customers under one roof, Thomas Kurian laid out the components of Oracle Fusion Middleware. Kurian’s intent: persuade the hordes of users in attendance to use Fusion Middleware in their organizations to…
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Oracle’s Red Hat Rip-off
No one saw this coming. People talked about Oracle making its own Linux, or buying a Linux company (Ubuntu?). But, the news that Oracle is erasing Red Hat’s trademarks from Unbreakable Linux and supporting it for less than Red Hat is a bolt from the blue. Or, perhaps, I should say that Oracle is firing…
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HP’s Channel Chief Is Promoted Out of the Channel
John Thompson, the Hewlett-Packard channel chief for North America who brought a measure of stability to a tumultuous period in HP’s relationship with channel partners, announced Oct. 25 that he will be relinquishing that post to assume the role of vice president and general manager for workstations within HP’s Personal System Group. Jim McDonnell, HP’s…
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Oracle Adopts Red Hat Linux as Its Own
Oracle on Oct. 25 announced that it will provide the same enterprise-class support for Linux as it provides for its database, middleware and applications products. Essentially, this means that Oracle, after removing Red Hat trademarks, will be distributing Oracle Unbreakable Linux, derived from Red Hat’s open-source Linux technology. Oracle, however, claims that it is merely…
