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CA Partners with Microsoft on Free Security Solution
Las Vegas—Computer Associates took a giant step toward the retail channel Tuesday. In a joint announcement with Microsoft at the COMDEX show here, CA said it would make one-year subscriptions to CA’s eTrust EZ Armor antivirus and firewall desktop security suite available to qualified Windows home users at no cost. The announcement, which extends CA’s…
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Microsoft Security Education Campaign Underway
Microsoft has committed to training and educating more than 500,000 people in the coming year about security. This week, company officials reached out to some of them with a security Webcast. But there’s more to come — a lot more. Microsoft has christened the first week of December as its TechNet Security Webcast Week. Tune…
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News from COMDEX
Gone from Comdex Las Vegas 2003 are the massage tables, the luxury cars and the consumer trinkets that once dotted the trade show floor disguised as enterprise IT. This year, Comdex’s organizers have promised to focus solely on business IT in a markedly downsized show being billed as “year one of the new Comdex.” eWEEK.com’s…
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Contract Watch: The Offshore Solution
“Is my job moving to India?” That’s the question facing many solutions providers amid the current offshore outsourcing boom. If you examine companies like Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., the boom is real and sustainable. Teaneck, N.J.-based Cognizant’s year-to-date revenue has skyrocketed 60 percent, fueled by the popularity of its low-cost offshore development teams in India.…
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Customers in Charge
Who’s in charge here? That question is at the root of the often-strained relationship between vendors and customers. On one side of the chasm of expectations are the technology requirements of customers in fulfilling their business missions; vendors grumble that those needs are too often poorly defined, not completely revealed and promise too little profit…
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SuSE Acquisition Leads Novell Down New Path
Novell Inc.’s planned $210 million acquisition of SuSE Linux AG raises many questions, especially about the future of the network services company’s NetWare operating system. Novell CEO and Chairman Jack Messman maintains that the Provo, Utah, company has no plans to phase out NetWare as an operating system, saying that it is simply adding Linux…
