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Microsoft to Appeal European Sanctions
Microsoft Corp. is appealing the sanctions the European Commission imposed today on Microsoft for anti-competitive behavior, giving the company 90 days to offer a version of the Windows operating system without Media Player and 120 days to disclose greater interface information so rival servers can interoperate with Microsoft products. As pledged at the collapse of…
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HP, Novell Join in Linux Desktop Push
Thanks to an expanded partnership with Novell Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. is claiming to be the only major IT vendor to provide Linux systems from the desktop to the datacenter. The two companies, which already sell Linux on servers, announced Wednesday at Novell’s BrainShare conference in Salt Lake City that they would work together to sell…
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EU Hits Microsoft With Record Fine
Microsoft Corp. has been hit by record fine of 497 million euros ($613 million) by the European Union for abusing its dominant market position with Windows. The company has also been ordered to effectively offer to manufacturers a version of Windows without Windows Media Player. The previous highest fine in EU history was 462 million…
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Can India Plug Its Brain Drain?
For years, the India Institutes of Technology (IIT) fed the executive ranks of US technology vendors, integrators, and consultancies with its graduates. However, the Institutes–modeled after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology–had been established to benefit India’s future. Now, a business incubator established by IIT Bombay is working to check the brain drain by fostering a…
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Branding and Product Positioning for the Channel Provider
I recently listened to a common type of miscommunication between channel partners and a vendor about marketing. The partners told their vendor that they wanted branding. The vendor obliged by creating a Marcom campaign that none of the partners used. Both complained to me that the other was unreasonable. Since both the vendor and the…
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Cisco Turns IP Video Work into Enterprise Offering
Cisco Systems Inc. has brought together eight years of its work on internal streaming media and video on demand in a new product offering for enterprises wanting to broadcast video over IP networks. The San Jose, Calif., company on Tuesday launched its Business Video Solution. The package combines Cisco’s routers and switches for managing IP…
