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Linux Lights Up a New Day at Novell
Novell wants its resellers onboard its new Linux direction. According to Ladd Timpson, Novell’s worldwide channel marketing director, and Mark Hardardt, vice president of global sales, Novell won’t just be pushing Linux. It wants its resellers to use Linux as the launching pad for an array of business network services. The company is urging its…
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Gateway To Close All Retail Stores
Gateway, Inc. said Thursday that it plans to close all of its 188 Gateway retail stores by April 9. The move, which had been predicted as a fallout of the company’s merger with eMachines Inc., will serve as an important step toward reducing Gateway’s cost structure, analysts said. Gateway said it still plans “wider retail…
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Managing Exodus
Wil Berrios expects to lose 75% of his experienced information-technology workers during the next three years. And another 10% in the two years after that. But he’s okay with that. For Berrios, chief information officer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the coming wave of retirements is something of a blessing in disguise. Those…
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Offshore Opt-Out
When online lender E-Loan Inc. said it would use processing agents in both India and the United States, it may have signaled a need to disclose how its work is managed. Pleasanton, Calif.-based E-Loan last month launched a pilot program for its home-equity-line customers, allowing them to choose whether they want to send work to…
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iDefense Alert: Cisco Web Administration DDoS Vulnerability
Security intelligence firm iDefense Inc. on April 1, reported that remote exploitation of a design error vulnerability in Cisco Systems Inc.’ 600 series Web Administration service allows for a distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) condition. The company rated the severity of this security event as high. The Web Administration service on the Cisco 627, 633, 673, 675, 675E,…
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IBM Opens Power Platform
NEW YORK—Taking the game plan implemented so successfully by Linux proponents, IBM will open up its Power microprocessor platform to enable other companies to innovate on top of the architecture. The goal is to enable Power-based solutions to grow to the point where much of the technology developed—from the smallest embedded systems to the largest…
