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Veritas to Purchase E-Mail Archive Vendor KVS
Veritas Software Corp. announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire KVault Software Ltd., a maker of policy-based e-mail archive software, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $225 million. The acquisition is expected to close by the end of September, according to officials of Mountain View, Calif.-based Veritas. Once the purchase is finalized,…
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HP Still Working Out Compaq Kinks
More than two years after Hewlett-Packard Co. merged with Compaq Computer Corp., integration of the two companies’ IT systems is still causing HP headaches. The Palo Alto, Calif., company expects to announce next week the results of an internal investigation into how a bungled integration of separate HP and Compaq implementations of SAP AG’s enterprise…
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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…
