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HP and CSC: Match Made in Heaven or Double-Edged Sword?
Well, the new year is barely in swing and the action in the technology universe has already started. If the first few days of 2006 are any indication, merger and acquisition activity this year in IT will make the level of transactions in the past years seem humble. Already Hewlett-Packard is making serious moves and…
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Analysts: Consumer-Focused Google Pack Is Prelude to Enterprise Push
Google Pack, a bundle of software from Google Inc. and other companies that was announced by the Web giant on Friday, is aimed squarely at consumers. But Google’s goal is to be the front end for everything people do on a computer, and enterprise use is not far off, analysts and solution providers said. Google…
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IT Budgets Remain Under Close Watch for 2006
We face another year of living moderately, at least with regard to technology spending. A just-completed survey of 115 senior information technology executives in big companies by CIO Insight, a sister publication to Baseline, shows a 1.3 percent decline in technology spending this year among companies with more than $500 million in sales. The publication’s…
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Developer Pitches Partner Analysis Tool to Vendors
If IT vendors could perform thorough analyses of their channel partnerships to find better ways to support partners and improve the bottom line, they would. Right? Not necessarily, according to Bill Davidson, president and CEO of Alliance Analytics Inc. Vendors typically have been focused almost exclusively on quantitative results and spend little or no time…
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The Myth of Faster, Bigger, Better
Still blindly following the hardware-centric myth that “better, faster, cheaper” will solve all ills, the networking industry continues to revel in the speeds and feeds of its latest products while IT managers are drowning in the cost and complexity of making the current ones work. Today’s approaches to application networks do not reduce cost and…
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Intel Enlists Channel for Home Automation Bid
With the release of the Viiv entertainment computers this week, Intel Corp. will rely on its channel partners to deliver a market still new to them—home users. The Viiv platform, built on Intel’s Yonah dual-core chip technology and Microsoft’s Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, is designed to allow users to control music, video, streaming…
