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Channel Program to Support QuickBooks Enterprise
Intuit has launched an enterprise channel program to support its enterprise solutions and extend their longevity as its customer base, mostly small and midsize businesses, become small and midsize enterprises. “They’re growing with the companies they have,” said Sanjeev Aggarwal, a senior analyst at Yankee Group, in Boston, referring to the SMBs that started using…
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Cittio Uses Slingshot Approach to Managed Services
The transition to managed services can prove costly, time-consuming and frustrating for the average channel company. Just ask Sean McTaggart, president of Triline Solutions in Holland, Mich., which invested upward of $70,000 to make the transition. About $50,000 paid for the technology and the rest went toward staff hours to make it all happen, McTaggart…
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Hefty Turnover Anticipated Among IT Workforce
Nearly half of the U.S. IT workforce is planning to change jobs in the next year, according to a study released May 31 by recruiting and staffing firm Spherion Corporation. “Right now, it is clearly an employee’s market for IT workers,” said Brendan Courtney, senior vice president of Spherion Professional Services, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in…
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Dell’s New XPS Notebooks Built to Entertain
Dell held a press conference in Los Angeles to announce its next-generation XPS PCs, which will include a “mobile entertainment device” that uses aspects of notebook and desktop design. The new mobile Dell XPS M2010 will use articulated hinges to allow the device to fold up and be taken on the road. The Dell XPS…
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AMD Live! PC Launch Backed By Free Media Apps
AMD’s partners are expected to announce the first PCs based on the AMD Live! entertainment platform on Tuesday, the day that AMD will begin to make available a number of specialized, free applications to improve the multimedia experience on Live! PCs. Initially, Live! PCs will be not much more than existing computers designed around the…
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Ubuntu Tips Upgrade, Server Release Plans
UK-based Canonical will introduce all-new versions of its popular Debian-based Linuxes—Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Edubuntu—along with its first enterprise server edition on June 1, a company spokesperson told DesktopLinux.com. The full release of Ubuntu 6.06—code-named Dapper Drake and featuring the latest GNOME desktop—includes both installable live desktop CDs and text-mode install CDs for three architectures. Canonical…
