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Vexed Vendors
Computer Associates ousted its chairman and chief executive over accounting concerns. Ditto for Nortel Networks, which booted its CEO and chief financial officer. What will you do if your vendor hits turbulence? It’s a question worth pondering given April’s executive high jinks, corporate housecleaning and financial restatements. Whether it’s Computer Associates’ horrid month culminating with…
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Microsoft Partners Weigh WinHEC News
At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) this week, Microsoft rolled out a new Web services model for device connectivity, plus a large roadmap for more than a dozen new software releases by the end of 2005. Microsoft partners are greeting all of this news with mixed reactions. Partners say they’re glad that Windows XP…
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Forrester Finds Linux Enterprise Ready Today
Typically, when a reseller or integrator thinks of deploying Linux, he thinks of selling it to customers to use as file/print servers or Web servers. That is, after all, how Linux, via Samba the Windows compatible file-server and Apache, everyone’s favorite open-source Web server, has made it into business. But, we may be selling Linux…
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Illinois Blocks Accenture Payments
It’s no secret that Accenture Ltd. set up its headquarters in Bermuda to reduce its overall tax burden. But now, that move could cost the consulting firm dearly. Indeed, Illinois State Comptroller Daniel Hynes on Monday blocked more than $2 million in state payments to Accenture. The state’s Procurement Policy Board is now reviewing whether…
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Channel News Roundup: Week of May 3
Garmin Adds GPS Technology to Pocket PCs OLATHE, Kan.—Garmin International Inc. will offer its Que application with a new CompactFlash GPS module that is optimized for popular Pocket PC handhelds. The cf Que 1620 module features Garmin’s Que application, which delivers GPS location, mapping and turn-by-turn navigation capabilities to Pocket PC devices. Que technology provides…
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Gov’t IT: Security Clearance Needed
Needed: One IT professional with excellent technology skills, a willingness to travel 75 percent of the week and top security clearance from the U.S. government. Unfortunately, few people in the U.S. work force fit that profile, as IT consultancy Orizon Inc. discovered when it tried to staff its first project for the FBI in early…
