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IBM Extends Workplace Reach to SMBs, Partners
IBM Corp. made several announcements Tuesday at its PartnerWorld conference in Las Vegas designed to extend the reach of its Lotus Workplace platform both to small and midsize businesses and to partner companies looking to build vertical solution offerings on Workplace. IBM is joining with AT&T Corp. to bundle the Lotus Workplace Services Express product…
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HP Challenges Cisco Routers
Although Cisco Systems Inc. may not be quaking in its boots, Hewlett-Packard Co. has challenged some of Cisco’s weaknesses with the first of several routers it is planning to add to its ProCurve Networking family. The ProCurve Networking unit from the Palo Alto, Calif., company adds a pair of branch/regional office routers that challenge comparable…
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UFT Gives Lesson in Open Source
For the 150,000 members of the United Federation of Teachers, paper forms, phone calls and hours spent standing in line are no longer current events; instead, they are consigned to the history books. Made up of current and retired New York City public school teachers and the largest union local in the world, the UFT…
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Cisco Jump-Starts Wi-Fi
After a yearlong hiatus, Cisco Systems Inc. is moving ahead with plans to add Wi-Fi capabilities to its router and switch products. This summer the San Jose, Calif., networking company will introduce a WLAN (wireless LAN) radio module for its family of branch-office routers, said sources close to the company. Cisco officials declined to comment…
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Microsoft Overhauls Partner Collaboration System
Microsoft Corp. made good this week on earlier promises to overhaul its online collaboration system for partners, a move some analysts and channel members say has been sorely needed for some time now. The new Microsoft Partner Channel Builder online tool, which was released to Gold Certified partners during the first half of January, entered…
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Fujitsu, CA Square Off in BPM
Computer Associates International Inc., better known for its security and network management software, is entering the business process management sector with a new process management suite, CleverPath Aion 10—announced last week—but the software maker is not alone. Infrastructure software provider Fujitsu Software Corp. will announce this week the availability of its Interstage Business Process Manager…
