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Cognizant Technology Solutions: Coveting the High End
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. is seeking to grow beyond its core markets of health care and financial services outsourcing and move toward complex application development and high-end business process outsourcing. Lakshmi Narayanan, who was named president and CEO of the Teaneck, N.J., company early this year, is guiding that initiative. Narayanan discussed Cognizant’s approach to…
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3Com’s WLAN Tools Boost SMBs
Small-business customers that need enterprise-level features but can’t afford enterprise-level prices have new options from 3Com Corp. Rolling out through the fall, the products include a travel access router, a wireless print server, a high-speed PC Card adapter and two access points. “The way we position ourselves is to deliver enterprise-class products to SMBs [small…
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Reverse Migration: From Linux to Windows
As Microsoft Corp. has acknowledged more than once, the company is losing business to Linux deployments. But the story doesn’t end there. Some large enterprises have taken the Linux challenge only to switch back to Windows, dissatisfied with the open-source alternative. Problems with application incompatibilities, poor performance, escalating support costs and an immature Linux ecosystem…
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IBM Exec Outlines PeopleSoft Deal
At PeopleSoft’s Connect 2004 user conference, CEO Craig Conway claimed that his company and IBM will jointly spend $1 billion in a development alliance to integrate PeopleSoft ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications with IBM’s WebSphere middleware. John Pallatto, eWEEK.com Enterprise Applications Center editor, interviewed Buell Duncan, IBM’s general manager of ISV and developer relations, about…
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Oracle Users Take Aim at High Costs, Security Silence
A growing number of Oracle users are not happy with what they’re getting. Why? The products cost too much. The products are suddenly springing security leaks. DBAs now have a god-awful amount of patches to install, and nobody told them they were coming or what they meant. Technical support has been outsourced and automated, meaning…
