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Oracle Gives OpenOffice.org Office Suite to Apache
The open-source office-productivity suite OpenOffice has a surprising new home: Apache. There was some speculation Oracle might donate the project to the The Document Foundation, the group of developers that split from OpenOffice to launch LibreOffice last fall. OpenOffice will join Apache Software Foundation as an “incubator” project, Oracle said June 1. As an incubator…
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Polycom’s HP Video Collaboration Buy Ups Ante Against Cisco
Polycom is buying Hewlett-Packard’s video collaboration business and expanding its partnership with Microsoft as it looks to bolster its competition with Cisco Systems in the fast-growing visual communications market. The moves, announced June 1, came at the same time that Polycom officials said they were partnering with a wide range of service providers—including AT&T, BT…
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Grandstream Announces Additions to Line of HD IP Phones
Grandstream Networks, a manufacturer of IP voice/video telephony and video surveillance solutions, announced two new additions to the GXP line of Enterprise HD IP Phones, the GXP1400 and GXP1405. The newest additions to the GXP family of HD IP Phones, the GXP1400/1405 bring HD audio and functionality to the SMB (small and midsize business) market.…
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Steve Jobs to Announce Apple’s iCloud, iOS 5 at WWDC
Apple CEO Steve Jobs will unveil the Mac OS X "Lion," build, iOS 5 and its highly anticipated iCloud Web-based services offering during a keynote address at the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference June 6, the company confirmed. The news, revealed via a brief press release May 31, is a rare preannouncement by a company whose…
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NetApp, CommVault Parnter on SnapProtect Backup Package
Storage network systems maker NetApp and storage software provider CommVault, whom some might think ought to be competitors because they sell into many of the same markets, announced May 31 that they have signed a new global OEM agreement under which they will cross-pollinate some key products. In fact, California-based NetApp and New Jersey-based CommVault…
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BridgeStor, Symantec Partner on SMB Storage Appliance
Storage specialist BridgeStor announced it has signed an OEM agreement with Symantec to provide small and medium-size businesses with an Application Optimized Storage appliance equipped with Symantec’s Backup Exec 2010 deduplication suite. Designed to bring data reduction technology to the SMB arena, the BridgeStor AOS appliance combines the functionality of a backup server with a…