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Sun Integrates Its Partner Programs into One Unified Framework
Sun Microsystems rolled out a new a unified framework this week for its U.S. channel programs. The company announced the new program, designed to simplify the way in which partners do business with Sun, at its iForce partner summit in San Diego. Under the new organization, the systems, software and services partner programs which previously…
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Panel Suggests Steps toward Electronic Medical Records
More than 70 countries are already in the process of implementing electronic medical records. Among them are the United Kingdom and Canada, which are planning to roll out electronic medical record systems by 2010. The United Kingdom already has committed $11 billion to transitioning patient records to an electronic system. During the past several months,…
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Riverbed Appliances Speed WAN Traffic
Riverbed Technology Inc. next week will jump into the application switching fray when it introduces its own unique twist on the function—a fusion of compression, caching and Web acceleration. The San Francisco startup chose to address more than just slow Web application response times for traffic traversing a WAN with its new appliances, which combine…
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Sun Spotlights Its 2004 Channel Roadmap
Sun Microsystems’ premier iForce partners gather in San Diego today for a four-day summit in which company executives will lay out their channel roadmap for the coming year. This year’s summit comes on the heels of a rocky week in which Sun was buffeted by a dismal earnings report, corporate restructuring, and rumors—which proved unfounded—that…
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IT Struggles to Sustain Recovery on Wall Street
When IBM Corp. announced solid—but not stellar—financial results last week, some investors were disappointed. Instead of rising on the earnings news, IBM shares declined roughly 1 percent for the week ended April 19. Still, solutions providers should take heart. While most investors focused on IBM’s hardware and consulting revenue, I prefer to look at the…
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Channel Zone News Round-up–Week of April 12
Friday, April 16 Sun Acquires Kealia, Marks Return of First Employee SANTA CLARA, CA — Sun Microsystems completed the acquisition of Kealia, a Palo Alto, Calif. company established to develop advanced computer system design. Kealia was co-founded and led by Andy Bechtolsheim, who was a co-founder of Sun and its vice president of technology from…
