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Why SCO’s Partners Stick with It
LAS VEGAS—Linux supporters who hate SCO would have been shocked to see SCO CEO Darl McBride greeted with a roar of applaud from about 500 SCO resellers and integrators at its annual SCO Forum trade show. Why was the “most hated man in IT” so warmly greeted? Because SCO’s Unix products make them money. It’s…
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RFID—Ready for Prime Time Yet?
RFID is hailed by its fans as a tool that will revolutionize the supply chain by streamlining product tracking. Yet as Wal-Mart and other big retailers forge ahead on 2005 deadines for initial compliance, security risks are coming to light that could conceivably raise mayhem not just on retail shelves, but all the way back…
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Big Deals Mark Outsourcing’s Revival
The large outsourcing deal is back. So claims outsourcing consultancy TPI in a study that finds large deals being signed at a pace ahead of a year ago. “Megadeals appear to be making a comeback,” said Peter Allen, partner and managing director of TPI. In apparently supporting evidence that emerged the same week the study…
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Business Ties Between SCO, HP Stay Strong
LAS VEGAS—The SCO Group, which can count few large companies in the IT industry as its friend, continues to maintain a very strong working relationship with Hewlett-Packard Co. HP, along with Intel Corp. and some other, smaller companies, was a sponsor of the SCO Forum event here at the MGM Grand hotel this week, and…
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Unix, Linux Insiders Express Skepticism About Sun-Novell Buyout
LAS VEGAS—No doubt, the attendees at the SCO Forum conference here and at the LinuxWorld show in San Francisco couldn’t be further apart in their viewpoints of Unix operating systems. But when it comes to the notion of Sun Microsystems Inc. buying Novell Inc., they appeared to have one reaction in common: disbelief. The news…
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Sun to Demo Sun Ray Linux at LinuxWorld
SAN FRANCISCO— Sun Microsystems Inc. will demonstrate a new version of its SunRay thin-client computing technology for Linux at this week’s LinuxWorld conference here. The company is also announcing the release of its C, C++ and Fortran development tools for Linux. The new SunRay software, which Sun plans to release in the last quarter of…
