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Sun Readies New Solaris Push, Snipes at Linux
Sun Microsystems Inc. officials on Tuesday offered new details on its open-source strategy. The company said publicly what most industry players understood for a long time: Sun’s top priority is supporting its Solaris operating system rather than Linux. At a briefing in San Francisco ahead of this month’s launch of Solaris 10, John Fanelli, the…
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Is IBM the Grid King in Financial Services?
Oracle Database 10g be damned—IBM has been doing grid for longer than Oracle, better than Oracle and for cheaper than Oracle, its database executives want us to know. New features in the recently released DB2 Universal Database 8.2 deliver “a very simple way to set up a high-availability failover environment with a much more cost-effective…
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A Tale of Two Consultants
DiamondCluster International and Sapient appear to be on the same upward trajectory, as the consulting firms take different paths to new highs on the financial improvement track. The companies talked business fundamentals last week during quarterly earnings calls. Both companies’ results seem to point toward an improved environment. DiamondCluster‘s North American net revenue was up…
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Sun Ready to Open Solaris
Sun Microsystems Inc. is getting closer to making its Open Solaris project, along with the final pieces of Solaris 10, a reality. At its quarterly SunNetwork Conference, to be held at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, Calif., Nov. 15, Sun will unveil Open Solaris and give final pricing and other details for…
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SAP, HP Team on ERP for SMBs
Small and midsize businesses that are looking for an ERP solution but aren’t able to handle such things as cost and implementation have a new solution from SAP America Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. to consider. SAP, of Newtown Square, Pa., and HP teamed last week to announce a hosted enterprise resource planning bundled service tailored…
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The iPod-Powered PC
Would your customers believe that they could use their iPods to turn any PCs into working clones of their main PC? Well, believe it or not, that’s exactly what PowerHouse Technologies Group Inc. is doing with its Migo software. Premier partners are encouraged to look not just to SMBs but to enterprise clients as well.…
