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Oracle Teaches Its Sales Force to Play Nice
Oracle Corp. has finally begun to file down the teeth of its rambunctious direct sales force. On Monday, the Redwood Shores, Calif., database behemoth began the process of releasing its first-ever set of guidelines to instruct its sales staff in North America on how to play nice with partners, including channels, ISVs, resellers, integrators and…
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New Head of HP Channel Coming Sooner Rather than Later?
Hewlett-Packard Co. resellers were caught flat-footed when Kevin Gilroy, longtime HP channel leader, was promoted to senior vice president of worldwide SMB segment operation in early July, but in a Tuesday morning press call, Gilroy revealed that HP will be announcing a new channel leader within one to two weeks. Gilroy is a 23-year HP…
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Microsoft Releases First Service Pack for Office 2003
Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday released the first service pack for Office 2003, which is largely a collection of security and bug fixes for the entire Microsoft Office System but also contains some new feature enhancements for Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 and Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003. Office Service Pack 1 (SP1), available for download here, also…
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Symantec Offers Vendor-Neutral Certifications
Typically, when you think certification, you think of a product line. But Symantec has taken a different slant with its new, vendor-neutral security certification program. Instead of focusing on product-specific certifications on, say, Symantec Antivirus Gateway Solution, Symantec Corp.‘s partners are being required to earn certification on general security skills. “No single product in security…
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Windows Server SP1, 64-Bit Editions On Hold Until 2005
IT managers shouldn’t hold their breaths waiting for any of the new 64-bit Windows Server or Windows XP versions that Microsoft was shooting to deliver this year. And ditto with Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1), the security-focused update originally targeted to ship this year. Now, Microsoft officials are saying these updates won’t ship…
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MyDoom Attacks Microsoft.com Through Back Door
As many security researchers feared after analyzing the code for MyDoom.O, a second, related attack began in earnest Tuesday with a new piece of code using the back door installed by MyDoom.O to spread itself and launch a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack against Microsoft.com. MyDoom.O, also known as MyDoom.M or MyDoom.M@mm, installs a…
