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Intel Doubles Down on Linux
Intel is asking itself what’s next for Linux. The chip giant recently pulled its disparate efforts to work with the operating system. Those efforts span programs aimed at notebooks, desktops, servers, storage and vertical markets such as telecommunications, together under one roof, creating a Linux Program Office, run by its Software and Solutions Group. Intel…
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Customers Turn Up Heat on Outsourcing Providers
Customers are demanding a lot more of their outsourcing providers. At least that’s what newly released data from market-watcher TPI suggests. The company on Friday reported that 20 percent of the value of outsourcing deals inked in the first six months of 2005 represented restructured contracts as opposed to entirely new awards. That figure compares…
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N-Able Adds Security Patches to Managed Services
N-Able is partnering with Shavlik to give IT-services providers the ability to remotely secure and update their customers’ systems. N-Able Technologies Inc., of Ottawa, Ontario, Monday added remote security patch management and software updates to its OnDemand managed-services platform. The company is powering its PatchIt Online service with technology from Roseville, Minn,-based Shavlik Technologies LLC’s…
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Apple Earnings Show Rising Mac Sales
Industry analysts examining Apple’s Wednesday earnings statement concurred that the most interesting information revealed was the strong growth of Macintosh computer sales. As discussed in Apple Computer Inc.’s fiscal third quarter conference call, sales of Macintosh computers have risen 35 percent over the year-ago quarter, which gave the Apple products triple the sales rate of…
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Oracle Defends Its Math on Multicore Discount
Oracle Corp.’s vice president of pricing and licensing defended the math behind the company’s new and comparatively stingy 25 percent rebate on multicore processors, saying that customers are now getting charged for what they in fact get: a 1.5 to 1.75 times performance boost from a dual-core chip. “We have done quite a bit of…
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IBM Launches Public-Sector Program for Partners
Channel companies developing applications and delivering integration services to the public sector now can tap the IBM technical, sales and marketing colossus to reach more customers. The Armonk, N.Y.-based computing giant on Thursday announced that it is expanding a vertical market-focused program it launched last year for ISVs to include VARs, consultants and system integrators…
