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IBM Expects SMB to Rev Up IT Spending in 2004
IBM loves its Business Partners and in 2004 plans to continue providing them with a barrage of new offerings and sales support. “About one-third of IBM’s overall revenue is generated through its worldwide base of 90,000 business partners,” says Pamela Kaplan, Director of Worldwide Partner Marketing Programs, at IBM’s Software Group. “In 2003, IBM invested…
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New Worm Spreads Via MSN Messenger
Anti-virus experts are watching a new worm that spreads through Microsoft Corp.’s MSN Messenger client. The worm is not harmful to infected machines and has infected only a few PCs at this point, according to an analysis by Trend Micro Inc. Known as Jitux, the worm is self-propagating and contains a link to a Web…
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New Symbol CEO Talks Strategy
For more than a year, Bill Nuti has been riding shotgun at Symbol Technologies Inc. Now, he’s finally in the driver’s seat as the company’s newly appointed CEO. Customers, partners and Symbol insiders applaud the move. And for good reason. Nuti joined Symbol as president and chief operating officer in July 2002, and has spent…
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Java Tools Community Effort Back on Track
The effort to build a tight-knit organization to support advancements in Java development is set to take off next month, and possibly as early as next week, sources said. The effort, initially reported in eWEEK and originally known as the Java Tools Community (JTC), will feature several leading Java tool vendors working to link their…
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MySQL CEO Mickos Addresses Critics, Looks to Open-Source Growth
Few can expect any open source-related news to escape its share of both withering scorn and good insight from venues such as Slashdot. This premise held true when a recent, independent study done by Reasoning Inc. claimed that open source database MySQL was some 6 times cleaner than comparable proprietary code. With the comments on…
