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Canon, Dell Printers Target SMBs
New color laser printing products coming from Canon Inc. and Dell Inc. next month are priced with small and midsize businesses in mind. Canon in September is expected to unveil a color laser MFP (multifunction printer) priced at $999, according to sources. The ImageClass MF8170C can print at 16 pages per minute in monochrome and…
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Orion Workstations Act as Single-Box Clusters
A startup company is rolling out a family of workstations aimed at the technical computing space that offer clusterlike capabilities inside a single box. Orion Multisystems Inc. on Monday will launch as a company as well as unveil its first two products—a 12-node desktop workstation that offers up to 36 gigaflops of performance, and a…
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Novell Reorgs Around Linux, Identity
Novell Inc. on Monday pared down the company’s organization chart to better align its product development around twin goals: Linux and open-source platforms and solutions for identity services. Novell vice chairman Chris Stone on Monday sent staff members an e-mail informing them of the organizational changes. Stone said Novell’s future success will be based on…
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Keeping VARs in Front of the Customer
Small-business marketing often operates by fits and starts: a seminar here, a direct-mail piece there, and not much in the way of continuity. Avnet Partner Solutions, IBM Americas division, wants to change that situation. At this week’s Avnet Partner Conference, the company unveiled Avnet Integrated Marketing Solutions (AIMS). AIMS is intended to make marketing less…
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Allchin Defends Longhorn Decision to Microsoft Employees
On Friday, Microsoft Corp. went public with an executive decision that’s been brewing for the past couple of weeks. The company decided in order to keep Longhorn client ship dates from slipping further, it would remove the crux of Longhorn – the new Windows File System (WinFS) from the operating system. Read about Microsoft’s decision…
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Microsoft to Gut Longhorn to Make 2006 Delivery Date
Microsoft is cutting back its Longhorn client’s planned feature set so as to be able to make its current delivery targets: Beta 1 by next year and final release some time in 2006. Microsoft officially confirmed what had been leaked by developer sources late on Friday: changes to its future roadmap for the desktop version…
