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The Resellers’ Guide to Free Desktop Linuxes
While VARs want to know the basics about free desktop Linux—installation, setup and feature sets—their bottom line remains the bottom line. eWEEK Labs has addressed those issues well in reviews of the best-known free desktop Linux distributions: the latest Ubuntu, OpenSUSE and Freespire. But resellers need answers to questions about the operation of supporting these…
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SAS Ventures into Channel Waters
SAS Institute, a longtime independent software maker of business intelligence and data management solutions, is venturing into the channel for the first time, with a full program designed to attract VARs to its products. The Cary, N.C., company announced Aug. 28 that it had recruited about 25 VARs, system integrators and independent software vendors as…
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Revamped Riverbed Tools Help Accelerate WANs
Application delivery controller vendor Riverbed Technology on Aug. 28 launched new versions of its Steelhead appliance and software aimed at enterprises ready to scale their WAN optimization/application acceleration technology. Claiming that enterprises are poised to move beyond the tire kicking, pilot stage of the technology adoption, Riverbed created three new models of its Steelhead appliance,…
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Microsoft Offers Broader Support for Legacy Products
Microsoft seems to have finally cottoned onto the fact that it can drive revenue from the use of legacy software by some of its largest customers, announcing on Aug. 28 a new Custom Support Agreement program. The new CSA plan extends Microsoft’s current product support program, which offers five years of mainstream support followed by…
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CA to Focus Channel Marketing on a Limited Product Set
Software maker CA will limit its major go-to-market channel resources to just nine enterprise and commercial product areas out of its vast portfolio, allowing it to target resources at the hottest products and markets. Sales and technical support will continue for the rest of the Islandia, N.Y., company’s 1,200-plus products, but major marketing, advertising and…
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Software Piracy Earns Fla. Man 6-Year Prison Term
A federal judge sentenced the owner of a Web site that peddled more than $4 million’s worth of pirated software from such companies as Adobe Systems, Autodesk and Macromedia, to six years in federal prison, the Department of Justice announced Aug. 25. The Web site owner, Danny Ferrer, 37, of Lakeland, Fla., must also pay…
