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Protesters Rally against Offshore Outsourcing
Protesters from at least seven workers’ organizations protested the loss of US high-tech jobs as a result of offshore outsourcing last week outside a meeting of the Strategic Research Institute in New York about how companies can save money by farming out jobs. Stamford, Ct.-based analysts Gartner Inc. predicts the United States will lose one…
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Is Eclipse in Sun’s Future?
Will Sun Microsystems Inc. join the Eclipse open-source Java development platform effort? Sources close to the company said despite Sun’s official decline of an invitation to join Eclipse last month, the company is still looking to join and may be closer now than ever, as the Eclipse Consortium is on the verge of transitioning to…
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EMC Eyes Data Growth
EMC Corp. is expanding its storage management initiative with a software suite that gives organizations tools for limiting the volume of data that can be placed in their enterprise databases. The new DatabaseXtender suite enables organizations to monitor database growth and identifies and relocates inactive data to various lower-cost storage devices. As a result, enterprises…
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It’s Earnings Season: High Times and Disappontments for High-Tech Integrators
During lunch last week, a marketing consultant asked me where I thought stocks were heading for the rest of this year. It was a question I dare not answer. I’m no financial analyst. And I don’t have a crystal ball that foretells world events. But I did learn a really important lesson during the dot-com…
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Arrow Electronics Announces New Management in SBM Division
Englewood, CO–-Arrow Electronics’ North American Computer Products has named Michael Haley vice president of the SBM Division, a value-added distributor of Hewlett-Packard enterprise products and integration services. Haley succeeds Charlie McPherson who led the division as vice president of sales and marketing since 1997. McPherson will continue to lead marketing and product management initiatives for…
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IBM Unveils New Domino, Workplace Products
ORLANDO, Fla.—IBM continued its push to tell customers that its messaging and collaboration future is Lotus Workplace while pledging continued commitment to its flagship Notes and Domino products at the opening day of the Lotusphere show here Monday. The company’s Lotus Software division unveiled several new products for both the Workplace and Notes and Domino…
