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IBM Readies On-Demand Partnership Program
Sources said that IBM on Tuesday will launch the centerpiece of its effort to extend its automated-provisioning technology for on-demand computing into the ISV and Systems Integrator world. The new business partner initiative, dubbed Orchestration and Provisioning Library (OPAL), pulls together a series of tools, best practices, education, validation testing and promotional activities to help…
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The Nuclear Weapon of Digital Rights Law
Few examples of technology-related federal legislation have stirred up more controversy in recent years than the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and now the European Union is considering a similar, yet far more sweeping act—one that could extend to virtually all kinds of intellectual property protections—which critics describe as “nuclear weapons of IP law enforcement.”…
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Sun Goes After HP-UX Customers
Not satisfied with its assault on HP’s Tru64 customer base, Sun Microsystems has made a move to go after HP-UX customers as well, offering them a “risk free” move to SPARC-based or Opteron-based hardware. For several months now, Sun has been trying to convince old DEC and Compaq users to come over to the Solaris…
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New Prescription for Pharmaceuticals
Is all the RFID noise giving you a headache? Take two aspirin and call Accenture Ltd. in the morning. The management consulting firm has organized a group of pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors and retailers to explore radio frequency identification’s (RFID’s) true ability to: • enhance the safety and security of the pharmaceutical supply chain; • improve…
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Sun Loses Sueltz to Salesforce.com
Sun Microsystems Inc. lost another key executive Wednesday when the company announced the departure of Patricia Sueltz, formerly executive vice president of Sun Services. Sueltz, 51, left Sun for Salesforce.com, where she will assume the position of president of marketing, technology and systems. Sueltz is scheduled to begin her tenure at Salesforce.com Thursday, Sun officials…
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Salesforce.com Adds WebSphere to Sforce
Salesforce.com Inc. announced Wednesday a new offering that extends its sforce hosted application development environment to IBM’s WebSphere application server. The new hosted service offering, dubbed the sforce Toolkit for IBM WebSphere, allows developers to use IBM’s WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Studio Application Developer to build extensions to Salesforce.com that integrate customer data stored…
