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Business Solutions Drive Redmond’s Latest Competency
Microsoft Corp. unveiled this week a revised Security Solutions Competency constructed around solution building and a vendor neutral approach to the security ecosystem. Microsoft executives and partners said the refurbished program is driven by solution building expertise, not just mastery of Microsoft technology, as it applies in the security environment alongside multiple vendors and business…
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Microsoft Testing Its Own ‘Google Base’
Microsoft Corp. said it is readying an online marketplace, code-named Fremont, which is apparently in response to a similar feature that rival Google Inc. introduced a few weeks ago. Fremont is a free service in which people contribute listings, whether it’s about a couch for sale or someone looking for a commuting partner. Microsoft plans…
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IBM Compensates Partners for Customer Influence
In recognition of channel partners’ power to sway customer IT purchase decisions, IBM Corp. is starting to compensate partners for their influence as opposed to just product fulfillment. Buell Duncan, general manager of ISV and developer relations at IBM, in Armonk, N.Y., said the company recognizes that software developers and integrators who build applications on…
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Hosting Grows In Wake of Oracle Acquisitions
NaviSite Inc. reports an uptick in its PeopleSoft business as the one-year anniversary of Oracle Corp.’s acquisition of that company nears. WTS Inc., meanwhile, has grown its JD Edwards practice. Oracle inherited that software line through the purchase of PeopleSoft, which had acquired JD Edwards in 2003. Mark Clayman, senior vice president of hosting services…
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Avnet Divests Itself of the End-User Trade
Avnet this week spun off Avnet Enterprise Solutions, its last significant U.S. end-user business, to form a $300 million network VAR, in partnership with Calence, a nationwide solution provider. The new company, Calence LLC—combined from AES, Avnet’s network lifecycle management division and Calence—instantly becomes the single largest network VAR in the land, with $300 million…
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Trying for the Top: Desktop Linux Aims for the Big Time
Linux desktops have always faced an uphill battle against Windows desktops. Now, OSDL is calling together architects from over two-dozen key desktop-oriented Linux projects to a Dec. 1-2 meeting at its headquarters to set strategic directions and standards, and find synergies amongst Desktop Linux organizations. Armed with detailed information about what Linux desktop users really…
