Recent Articles
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Cisco Reports Upbeat Earnings
Despite a continued tough spending environment for technology, Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday announced solid earnings and revenue growth for its recent fiscal quarter. Cisco met Wall Street expectations in earning $1.4 billion for its first fiscal quarter of 2005 on $6 billion in revenue. The company’s net income represented a 28.5 percent jump over…
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EMC Keeps Laying Down SMB Track
EMC’s recent acquisition of tiny Allocity Inc., the developer of an always-available e-mail storage solution, went virtually unnoticed by the storage world, but it may be indicative of a continuing trend at the company to expand its reach and better penetrate the small-business world. The acquisition, which closed Oct. 22, gives EMC full access to…
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ZyLab: Blast from the Past
Document management pioneer ZyLab is looking to make a comeback in the channel. The company, which launched in 1983 in Chicago with a PC-based full-text retrieval software product, has since branched into Europe and Asia. The expanding company also built a dealer network. In North America, that effort diminished somewhat over time, but the company…
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Keeping Customers Updated
For many resellers, especially those that provide hardware with little value-add, staying close to customers can be a problem. While it’s true that you’ll probably keep those who like your prices or your delivery times, it’s not always a sure bet. After all, there’s always the chance that some company will offer a better price…
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Microsoft Settles with Novell, CCIA Trade Group
In a surprise move, Microsoft Corp. announced on Monday that it is paying $536 million to end an antitrust battle with Novell Inc. and that it has resolved some long-standing disagreements with trade group Computer & Communications Industry Association. Because of these agreements, Novell and the CCIA have agreed to pull out of the legal…
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Compatibility Issues Slow ‘Project Janus’
As Sun Microsystems Inc. prepares to deliver Solaris 10 by year’s end, one of its key features—”Project Janus”—may be postponed and added next year to a product update due to incompatibility issues with Linux applications. Project Janus is designed to let Linux applications run on Solaris unmodified. But many Linux binaries have dependencies for native…
