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Borland Bakes Quality into Development Cycle
Borland Software announced Borland Lifecycle Quality Management Oct. 2, in an effort to enable enterprises to build quality into every facet of an application’s development process. Rob Cheng, director of developer solution at the Cupertino, Calif., company, said the new Borland LQM solution will mean that quality is tested for more frequently in the development…
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McAfee Sends Channel Exec to Top of Sales Org
Security vendor McAfee put a channel veteran at the top of its sales organization, it announced Oct. 2, hoping to accelerate the firm’s sales and marketing game as the company approaches the 100 percent channel mark. Roger J. King took the post as executive vice president of worldwide sales, overseeing both sales and channel development,…
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Oracle Juices Up Berkeley DB
Oracle spruced up one of its recently acquired embeddable databases, Berkeley DB, releasing on Sept. 27 Version 4.5 with multi-version concurrency control and more. The new features are designed to improve performance, availability and ease-of-use for developers of the open-source database. One of the major goodies in the update is the ability of developers to…
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Brand Identity Is Precious
When Intel debuted the “Intel Inside” branding in 1991, the MBA side of my brain sounded alarms for all the PC makers whose short-sighted greed for co-marketing dollars overcame their common sense. I’ve heard multibillion-dollar estimates for the brand-name equity value that those PC OEMs yielded to what had formerly been a back-door supplier of…
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The Contracting Life: Caveats to Cashing In
At pay rates of up to 30 percent more than most IT professionals, the prospect of becoming an IT contractor makes many tech workers see dollar signs. It’s more than money, however, drawing them in: It’s variety. Some find the influx of new and different projects to be more satisfying than the static labor in…
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Wireless SMB Growth Opens Opportunities for VARs
U.S.-based SMBs will spend a whopping $20.6 billion on wireless services this year, opening up tremendous opportunities for solution providers and vendors, according to recent research from AMI-Partners. The country’s largest wireless vendors are ramping up their efforts to become the premier provider to the lucrative small and midsize market, said Carolina Guedes Smith, a…
