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Microsoft Reveals Business Solutions Partner Changes
Channel Zone has learned that, as part of the ongoing transition from the Microsoft Business Solutions partners program (mostly SMB VARs) to the Microsoft Partner Program, Microsoft Corp. on Thursday will be making several changes in its channel programs for former Microsoft Business Solutions partners. On May 4, Microsoft announced the new opportunities for MBS…
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HIPAA Reprieve: Five More Days for Compliance
Medicare providers now have a few more days to file electronic claims that do not contain all the information required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, had planned to treat non-HIPAA compliant electronic claims as paper claims starting July 1, but has now said…
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Dell Building Denser, Cheaper Blades
Dell Inc. is ready to expand its blade server offerings, more than two years after coming out with its first version of the ultradense form factor. The Round Rock, Texas, company in the fourth quarter will roll out new blade systems that will be more dense than those currently available from competitors, said Paul Gottsegen,…
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Microsoft’s Win Called Nail in Antitrust Coffin
Microsoft’s victory in a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling Wednesday largely ends the Department of Justice’s 6-year-old antitrust case against the software maker and removes a major financial barrier for the company. Wednesday’s ruling struck down Massachusetts’ appeal of a 2001 settlement between Microsoft Corp. and the DOJ. Massachusetts was seeking stronger remedies against the…
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Coyote Point Aims High with New Load Balancer
Coyote Point Systems Inc., an application traffic management provider, this week will go after larger enterprises with a new high-end load balancer. The San Jose, Calif.-based vendor, which has historically sold load balancers to small and midsize enterprises for about a quarter of the price of those offered by larger vendors such as Cisco Systems…
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Windows Loses Another Customer to Sun’s JDS
Microsoft is losing another customer to an alternative desktop operating system, with Allied Irish Bank, one of Ireland’s largest banking and financial services groups, set to transition its branch-dependent applications and migrate about 7,500 desktop users off Windows and onto the Sun Java Desktop System over the next year or so. Sun Microsystems Inc., of…
