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BMC Strikes Deal to Web Services-Enable Its Products
Systinet Corp. struck a deal Tuesday with BMC Software Inc., whereby BMC has delivered its first product using Systinet’s Web Applications and Services Platform (WASP) and is working on another, the companies said. Under the agreement, Houston-based BMC licensed Cambridge, Mass.-based Systinet’s WASP to Web services-enable its products. The first BMC product to be Web…
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Updated ProactiveNet Tool Boosts SLA Management
ProactiveNet Inc. next week will try to move up the food chain in the IT hierarchy when it delivers new service-level management capabilities in version 6.0 of its ProactiveNet application performance management software. The ability to integrate SLA (service-level agreement) monitoring, analysis and reporting makes ProactiveNet 6.0 appealing to a new group of stakeholders: “senior-level…
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Intel Adds Pair of Itanium Processors
Intel Corp. on Tuesday launched a pair of new Itanium processors geared at reducing the total cost of ownership of Itanium-based servers. The additions flesh out Intel’s Itanium processor line, filling in niches in its product portfolio. Intel launched new two-way-capable Itaniums at 1.4-GHz and 1.6-GHz, each with 3MB of level-3 cache. The 1.4-GHz chip…
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Equity Taps CRM for Tracking Condo Sales
Equity Residential doesn’t own boardwalk or Park Place, but if it were playing Monopoly, the Chicago-based company would manage much of the surrounding prime real estate. So when the company, which manages more than 1,000 prime properties across 35 states, decided last year to convert several of its apartment buildings into condominiums, it made sense,…
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Patent Lawsuits Crowd Microsoft’s Horizon
While Microsoft Corp. has reached a $440 million settlement with InterTrust Technologies Corp. around digital rights management patents, it is far from clearing the slate of patent-infringement claims against it. Microsoft, the world’s largest software maker, remains a major patent target. It is battling between 30 and 35 ongoing patent cases that cover everything from…
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Channel Stocks Brace for Earnings
Wall Street bulls are optimistic that solutions providers and technology companies will deliver strong quarterly results this week. Among the 30 companies in our Ziff Davis Channel Zone Stock index, at least three– CDW Corp. (CDWC), IBM Corp. (IBM) and Unisys Corp. (UIS)–are slated to announce results this week. Non-index members such as Advanced Micro…
