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Oracle, Dell Bundle in Pursuit of SMB Market
Oracle Corp. and Dell Inc. are deepening their technology relationship to take better advantage of a small and midsize business (SMB) audience ripe with new sales opportunities as well as to catapult the proliferation of grid computing to new heights. Larry Ellison, CEO of Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle, and Michael Dell, chairman and CEO of…
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Sun Opens Wal-Mart Channel
Sun Microsystems’ JDS is now preloaded on Microtel Computer Systems hardware and available at Wal-Mart. “We now have an active relationship with Microtel,” Jonathan Schwartz, executive vice president of Sun’s software group, told reporters at a “software day” at its Menlo Park, Calif., campus last week. The $300 system, a Microtel SYSWM8001 PC, comes with…
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ISVS Seek Federal Security Help
After years of imploring government officials to stay out of their way, some security industry executives have reversed their position and are asking for Washington’s input to improve software quality and network security. How serious they would be about following government suggestions or rules, however, is in doubt, experts say. The accession is part of…
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Channel Stocks Stage Wall Street Rally
An improving job market and lucrative IT contracts last week gave our Ziff Davis Channel Zone Stock Index its biggest lift in more than two months. For the week ended April 2, our index rose a healthy 5.71 percent, easily outpacing the Dow (+2.5 percent), the S&P 500 (+3 percent) and the Nasdaq (+4.9 percent)…
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Cisco Targets Verticals With Networking Suites
Cisco Systems Inc. is stepping up efforts to target vertical industries with a tailored set of networking suites that feature a range of partners providing value-added applications and services. The San Jose, Calif., company last week launched its first formal networking solutions targeted at the transportation industry, but it also has its sights set on…
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BEA Gets on Service Bus
WASHINGTON—Despite predictions that IBM and Microsoft Corp. will dominate the emerging ESB space, BEA Systems Inc. is quietly working on delivering enterprise service bus capabilities for Web services in a product slated for release early next year. During an interview at the BEA Federal Technology Symposium here last week, Alfred Chuang, chairman and CEO of…
