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Microsoft Software Assurance: Opportunities Lurking for Resellers?
How can Microsoft do a better job with its Software Assurance licensing customers? Interviews with partners and users point in several directions: more compelling product releases, lower SA pricing, a less complex service model and major marketing improvements on Microsoft’s part. Meanwhile, some of the biggest fishes in Microsoft’s licensing pond see opportunities for smaller…
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You Don’t Have to Outsource out of the Country
The jobs are going away. They won’t be back. Here in my home, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, it’s mostly light manufacturing jobs. But in the Silicon Valley; in Austin, Texas; in the Washington Beltway; and in Boston; it’s programming and help-desk jobs. In Redmond, Wash., it’s software architecture. You can…
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Proxim To Ship WiMax Equipment In 2005
Proxim Corp. said Thursday that it plans to ship fixed and portable versions of WiMax technology next year through a partnership with Intel. Intel, which is developing WiMax (or IEEE 802.16) silicon for shipment later this year, said it will work with Proxim to develop bases stations based on the technology early next year, then…
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PeopleSoft Granted Hefty Discounts to Outsell Oracle
SAN FRANCISCO—PeopleSoft Inc. was prepared approve discounts of up to 55 percent off list price to win business from Oracle Corp. and other competitors, a PeopleSoft sales executives testified Wednesday in U.S. District Court here. PeopleSoft didn’t hesitate to discount heavily whenever it was competing head-to-head with Oracle for new business or when it stood…
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IBM Helps ISVs Grid-Enable Apps
Seven ISVs have joined forces with IBM to prepare their applications for grid computing. Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM announced Tuesday that Cognos Software Inc., Citrix Systems Inc., Engineous Software Inc., Abaqus Inc., Actuate Corp., Fluent Inc. and Sefas Innovation Inc. have grid-enabled their applications with IBM’s assistance—through the company’s Solutions Grid for Business Partners Initiative. A…
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Linux Enterprise Toehold Widens with EU Wins
The open source Linux operating system continues to gain ground in governmental agencies around the world, winning another two converts this week. The Norwegian city Bergen on Tuesday said it plans to move 100 schools and 32,000 users away from its proprietary Unix and Microsoft Windows applications platform to Linux by the end of this…
