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IBM Pledges $100 Million to Aid Partners
LAS VEGAS—At its PartnerWorld event here in Las Vegas this week, IBM is drilling home the message that partners are crucial to its success—primarily as it works to build channels into the small and midsized business sector—and Big Blue is putting its money where its mouth is. IBM pledged on Monday to spend an additional…
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Veritas Tweaks Channel Program Before Merger
Veritas Software Corp.’s pending merger with Symantec Corp. hasn’t kept the company from refining its channel program. The $13.5 billion merger, announced in December, combines Symantec’s anti-virus wares with Veritas’ strength in backup and presence in clustering and storage management. Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Channel Insider editor, believes the merged companies will take on Computer Associates International…
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Mozilla Battens the Hatches Against IE 7.0
If evidence were needed that the new browser war will be won or lost on the security message, along comes the Mozilla Foundation with public confirmation. Unfazed by Microsoft Corp.’s plan to roll out a security-centric Internet Explorer refresh later this year, the open-source Foundation says it will hire more staff to work full time…
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Microsoft to Modify Windows XP Product-Activation Policy
Microsoft is continuing its crack-down on Windows pirates, and is modifying its product-activation policies to do so. Product activation, which Microsoft first introduced with Windows XP in 2001, is Microsoft’s way of requiring new Windows users to authenticate their copies of Windows. Microsoft has required users not covered by volume-license agreements to register their XP…
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Microsoft Pitches New Low-Cost, Entry-Level Database Edition
Facing ever-stiffer competition in the database price wars, Microsoft Corp. is introducing an edition of its upcoming SQL Server 2005 upgrade that will provide an easier step between free and not free than it now does with SQL Server 2000. Microsoft plans to announce on Thursday SQL Server 2005 Workgroup Edition, a product that sits…
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Business Intelligence Begins to Boom
Business intelligence is breaking out of its niche, and that’s good news for resellers and integrators. Over the years, BI applications have been the province of power users in the corporate finance department. Tools for pulling reports out of various data stores rarely saw the light of day elsewhere. Now, a number of organizations are…
