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Nexaweb Tool Helps Developers Build Rich Internet Applications
SAN FRANCISCO—Nexaweb Technologies, provider of tools for building and deploying enterprise Rich Internet Applications, has released jRex 1.0, a server-agnostic, declarative XML user interface engine that generates enterprise Web applications running in any browser. Nexaweb announced the general availability of jRex 1.0 on May 16 at the JavaOne conference here. The jRex 1.0 engine enables…
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HP’s PC Group Makes Gains as Dell Slips
The second quarter was a good one for Hewlett-Packard, with strong revenue growth of 5 percent, higher-than-expected profits of $1.7 billion and a prediction for the current quarter that also exceeds what financial analysts are expecting. Yet despite all that, much of the focus of industry observers during HP’s quarterly earnings call May 16 was…
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Lenovo Revs Up Latest Laptops with Dual Cores
With the exception of the Thinkpad X41 tablet, Lenovo is rounding up the rest of the Thinkpads and giving them Intel Core Duo updates. The company announced May 16 that its Thinkpad Z series, including the Z61m and Z61t, as well as the budget-friendly Thinkpad R60, will receive dual-core processing power. The Thinkpad Z61t is…
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Ingram Trims the Fat for SMB VARs
Distributor Ingram Micro recast its SMB Alliance community for small and midsize business market VARs with fuller support, but for 1,500 fewer partners. The distributor cut the group to 3,500 VARs from a peak of 5,000, but stuffed the program with more benefits and support including financing programs, SMB targeted marketing, customized vendor programs and…
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Profits Drive Loyalty
For any successful solution provider, profitability begets loyalty. In other words, the more a vendor helps drop profits to the bottom line of the solution provider, the more likely it is that the solution provider is going to recommend the products of that vendor to its customers. This is an important fact of life for…
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Striking the Right SMB Managed Services Balance
Two characteristics of the IT industry are the continuous development of more complex technologies and the evolutionary business models designed to capitalize on these advancements. The latest of these business models is the managed services support model. When I speak to VARs about the managed services industry, it is commonly defined by two key services:…
