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Outsourcing Moves Back In
Early this month, MPC Computers took an unusual step. At a time when so many companies offer technical support through third-party, often off-shore, facilities, MPC is moving its entire technical support operation in-house. All support duties will be handled by MPC employees working at the company’s Nampa, Idaho headquarters. “Thirty new employees will be on…
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Novell Takes on SCO, Registers Unix Copyrights
Novell Inc. on Monday confirmed reports that it has registered 11 copyrights on the Unix System V source code that is at the center of the SCO Group Inc.’s legal battles with the Linux operating system. Novell, prompted by reports of the registrations on the Groklaw Web site, said in a statementthat “it owns the…
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Week Ending Dec. 19: Will Terror Threat Distract the Channel?
Will the stock rally fizzle during the last two weeks of 2003? That’s a pretty shallow question, considering our nation went on a heightened terror alert on Dec. 21. But there’s no denying terrorism’s influence on world markets and even channel stocks. Many pending IT contracts were placed on indefinite hold after the Sept. 11…
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FirewireDirect Ships New 2Gbps Fibre Channel RAID Box
FirewireDirect.com Inc. recently announced a 2Gbps Fibre Channel RAID solution. Its new Vanguard Ultra Elite Fibre System will support any platform with Fibre storage support and can deliver 200 MBps dual loop fibre throughputs in a 3U rackmount system. The product is available now. The system comes with 512 megabytes of high-speed cache and a…
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Sun Pulls Plug on Cobalt Server Line
In late 2000, Ed Zander (then president and chief operating officer of Sun Microsystems Inc. and now recently tapped as CEO and president of Motorola) said of Sun’s Cobalt server line: “We think the demand for these high-volume, turnkey devices will explode in the next couple of years. Cobalt is our bet for the future.”…
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China’s Wi-Fi Security Stance Ruffling Feathers
The staunch proprietary position on what China calls its Wired Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure (WAPI)–implemented on Dec. 1 as part of the nation’s GB 15629.11-2003 Wi-Fi standard–caught the wireless-LAN industry off-guard. The ruling means that any Wi-Fi chip or system imported into China or manufactured there for domestic use must employ the WAPI encryption scheme,…
