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Oracle Taps Channel For E-Business Launch
Oracle and channel harmony are words that haven’t always been mentioned in the same breath. But there’s nothing like a clean start. Oracle has reformulated its channel approach to support the recent North American launch of Oracle E-Business Suite Special Edition, a product tailored for the SMB (small and medium business) space. Special Edition is…
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HP, Microsoft Take Tech on the Road
NEW YORK—Hewlett-Packard Co. and Microsoft Corp. are taking to the road with a new initiative to bring technology to small and midsize businesses in remote parts of the country. At the TechXNY Expo in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center here this week, the duo showcased a large RV outfitted with technology from servers to…
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A Pain in the Backup
A year ago when I was testing 10-Gigabit Ethernet switches at the University of Hawaii, several things became clear. The first was that those switches were really fast. They really can pump data at their rated speeds, and that means sometimes three or four parallel 10-gig channels. That’s a lot of data. At the time…
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SP2 Preload Nets Mixed Reseller Reactions
The announcement that Windows XP with SP2 (Service Pack 2) will be preloaded on computers when they’re delivered to customers is causing some concern in the reseller community. The concern isn’t about SP2’s importance. Rather, it’s about custom applications that reseller customers may want to run on those computers. “I guess it’s really mandatory,” said…
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IBM Extending Its Mainframes
IBM, buoyed by four consecutive quarters of growth in its mainframe business, is looking to extend the reach of its zSeries systems. In a series of announcements this week, officials with the Armonk, N.Y., company said they want to take the traditional strengths of the mainframe—including reliability, security and scalability—and illustrate how the systems can…
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Microsoft Probes Flaw in ASP.NET
Microsoft Corp. is investigating a reported security flaw in its ASP.NET technology that could allow intruders to access password-protected sections of a Web site simply by altering a URL. The hole involves a glitch in ASP.NET’s processing of URLs, a process known as canonicalization. According to an advisory posted Tuesday on Microsoft’s Web site, “an…
