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Home Depot Hopes SAP Can Help Boost Sales
Home Depot wants to put more information at the fingertips of its “orange-blooded associates doing hand-to-hand combat in the aisles,” its chief information officer said Wednesday. The home improvement retailer, fresh off spending $1 billion in the last three years on self-checkout aisles and other store systems, wants to give its associates “real-time access” to…
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Oracle, SAP Take the Surfing Out of Collaborating
Both of the enterprise application giants—Oracle and SAP AG—have signed up to license technology that will help users more easily edit and save shared content. Xythos Software Inc. announced Tuesday that Oracle Corp. will plug the Xythos Drive into Oracle Files 10g and Oracle Portal. This will bring the ability to collaboratively manage content and…
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SCO, Partners to Create Unix White-Box Servers
The SCO Group, the beleaguered Unix-on-Intel company, announced Tuesday that it is partnering with distributors DTR Business Systems and Terian to provide SCO resellers with customized, preconfigured white-box servers. While best known in recent years for its Unix/Linux litigation, The SCO Group Inc. has continued to invest in its Unix operating systems and its reseller…
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Young Companies Recruit VARs to Tackle Network Congestion
When network performance drops, bogging down applications and connections, the finger often is pointed at the administrator. But the causes of performance degradation typically lie elsewhere. Media file-sharing, spam relay, viruses and worms all contribute to poor network performance, slowing applications and hurting productivity. “It’s got nothing to do with network design,” said Bob Quillin,…
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45 and Too Old to Work?
I wasn’t always a journalist. I spent years in IT doing everything from help desk (the horror! The horror!) to programming to system administration to network integration. I was, if I say so myself, pretty darn good at all of it. I’m also 48, and from what my friends tell me, I’d have a heck…
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Make Managed Services More Compelling
In recent years, more resellers have latched onto the concept of offering managed services as well as their traditional integration and support. The main draw is the potential for an ongoing revenue stream from service customers as well as a higher revenue-per-customer. Managed services are not just a business opportunity, but a matter of survival…
