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Take My Software. Please.
Almost five years ago, JDS Uniphase Corp., a go-go growth company that made super-high-tech optical components, signed a deal with Oracle Corp. to outsource its enterprise resource planning software, using an application service provider model that was supposed to be the next next thing in corporate information technology. It was a marriage made in hype…
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Mandrakesoft Makes Its Business Linux Move
On Tuesday, popular French Linux vendor Mandrakesoft renewed its efforts to enter the business Linux space with the announcement that it will be releasing two new enterprise Linux distributions: Corporate Server and Corporate Desktop. “These products have received specific development and testing efforts to make them as fit as possible for use in a business…
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FalconStor Ups Storage Server Ante with Windows Support
FalconStor Software Inc. has upgraded its software-based iSCSI storage server, imbuing it with new capabilities that allow it to be used not only as a storage controller but also as an archiving, backup and restore system. The product, which typically is incorporated into systems by FalconStor’s OEM and reseller partners, aims to eliminate downtime and…
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Microsoft Readies ‘A1’ Security Subscription Service
Publicly, Microsoft continues to be cagey about packaging and pricing plans for its anti-spyware and anti-virus solutions. But privately, Microsoft has begun informing partners of its plans for a security subscription service code-named “A1,” according to developers who requested anonymity. Microsoft bought anti-virus vendor GeCAD in the summer of 2003, and anti-spyware maker Giant Company…
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Lenovo Must Invest to Keep IBM Brand’s Lure
This is one of these “and then the other shoe dropped” stories, and it involves the IBM-Lenovo deal that sent Big Blue’s PC business to the Chinese. It turns out, according to SEC filings reported in The Register, that IBM’s PC business wasn’t just a low-margin business. Rather, it had lost nearly a billion dollars.…
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New WINS Exploits Making Rounds
Almost a month after Microsoft released a fix for a security issue in the WINS (Windows Internet Name Service) name server, malicious exploits continue to haunt tardy network administrators. According to an alert from the SANS ISC (Internet Storm Center), there has been a startling increase in hacker probes directed at TCP port 42 and…
