Recent Articles
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CEO Says EDS Has Lost Several Contracts
IRVING, Texas—Companies rarely boast about cutting the shareholders’ dividend, so it was noteworthy this week when officials at Electronic Data Systems Corp. alerted reporters to one paragraph in a 27-page filing in which the company suggested it may do just that. These, however, are not ordinary times at EDS. Chairman and chief executive Michael H.…
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Small Business Wins the Game
Wouldn’t it be great if every deal you ever made were for six, seven—dare we say it?—eight figures? It would also be great if I could lose weight eating chocolate ice cream, but it doesn’t work that way. Instead, what most of us rely on are bread-and-butter four- to six-figure deals to keep the money…
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Channel News Roundup–Week of May 11
Network Associates, Check Point Offer Security Solution for SMBs SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Intrusion prevention solutions provider Network Associates and Internet security company Check Point Software announced the availability of McAfee Secure-1, a managed gateway and desktop security solution for small businesses. The integrated solution provides an affordable way to protect company data. Secure-1 provides a way…
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Desktop Linux To-Do List
For Linux to become a real competitor to Windows on the desktop, Linux distributors must refine their software installation and management systems. There are some loose ends that need to be tied up and some tricky legal knots to unravel. In this week’s issue, I review the latest Linux distributions from MandrakeSoft and Novell’s SuSE…
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Landmark Overhauls Management Tools
When working at a landmark restaurant, change is sometimes not as welcome as the customers. But in the case of the Buffalo Brewpub, in Williamsville, N.Y., it was just what the IT manager ordered. The pub had been using the same proprietary restaurant management system for 10 years. Generally speaking, the system was akin to…
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Hilton, HSI: Long-Term Partners
When Hilton Hotels Corp. was set to open a major conference center and hotel in Omaha, Neb., several months ago, the company reserved a room for Hospitality Solutions International Inc., of Scottsdale, Ariz. HSI designs POS (point-of-sale) hospitality systems for major hotels and restaurant chains around the world, and the solutions provider’s relationship with Hilton…
