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Feds to Post $65B in Alliant IT Contracts
The U.S. General Services Administration, the procurement arm of the federal government, released draft RFPs June 1 for Alliant, a governmentwide program to support and upgrade the federal IT infrastructure. Alliant IT spending is expected to total more than $65 billion over 10 years. The initiative includes $50 billion in Alliant GWACs (Governmentwide Acquisition Contracts)…
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Red Hat Goes All Out for Developers
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—If you were looking for new products at Red Hat’s second annual Red Hat Summit, you came to the wrong place. But, if you were interested in bigger and better development tools, you came to the right place. Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik introduced the company’s new open-source developer community Web site, “108,” in…
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Oracle to Acquire Demantra
Oracle announced June 1 its plans to acquire supply chain management software developer Demantra. The terms of the deal are undisclosed. Demantra offers software for demand management, sales and operations planning and trade promotion planning and optimization. Oracle plans to combine the Demantra suite of software with its own burgeoning stable of supply chain software…
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Sprint to Deliver Broadband BlackBerry
Sprint Nextel has begun shipping a new version of the popular BlackBerry device designed to take advantage of its Power Vision mobile broadband network. The company will also upgrade an earlier version of the BlackBerry to take advantage of the network later in 2006. The BlackBerry 7130e, as delivered by Sprint, will be able to…
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Sun to Cut up to 5,000 Jobs
Sun Microsystems is cutting up to 13 percent of its workforce as part of a growth plan designed to return the struggling tech giant back to profitability. About 4,000 to 5,000 of Sun’s global workforce of about 37,500 will lose their jobs as part of a plan announced May 31 by the Santa Clara, Calif.,…
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The New Thin for Notebooks
A new wave of lightweight notebooks promises to be more livable for the road warrior, by offering more advanced features and built-in optical drives. Among them are new entries from Lenovo and Toshiba, each of which announced on May 31 a new business-oriented notebook line built around a 12.1-inch wide screen and an internal optical…
