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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…
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Microsoft Takes Aim at ‘Nonprofessional’ Programmers
On Tuesday, Microsoft officially took the wraps off a new line of low-priced tools aimed at nonprofessional programmers. The first betas of both the full Visual Studio tool suite and the so-called “Express” versions of Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++, Visual J# and SQL Server (as well as a new product, Visual WebDev Express)…
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Adaptec Picks Up RAID Tech from IBM
Adaptec said Tuesday that it has acquired RAID technology from IBM in return for a guaranteed supply agreement. According to a statement released late Tuesday by Milpitas, Calif.-based Adaptec Inc., the deal involves both products and intellectual property currently used by IBM inside its server line. A spokeswoman for Adaptec said the deal involves the…
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Call Center Speech Platform Gives Voice to More Data
TuVox has launched an updated version of its call center speech platform that can voice-enable information retrieved from databases and Web services. TuVox CVR 4.0, announced Monday, expands a technology the company calls “SmartGen” to build speech dialogs, prompts and grammars in order to navigate data from SQL databases and Web services, said Steve Pollock,…
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eMachines Announces Budget PCs
Gateway’s eMachines division launched a trio of new machines on Monday, all geared at a budget-minded audience. eMachines launched the T2824, the T2958, and the T3092, all priced at less than $600. All three machines are designed for consumers wishing to purchase a cheaper alternative than higher-priced, more powerful PCs, such as a computer for…
