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  • VAR Healthcare Opportunities Span Beyond EMR

    With the growing buzz around healthcare IT, many VARs looking to grab a piece of the electronic healthcare records (EHR) market are met with frustration at the limited opportunities for the channel. Citing large and risky sales cycles, few EHR software providers allow VARs to resell their software. So, are there other opportunities for VARs…

  • Social Media Distracting from Real Security Issues

    As security pundits and analysts wrap up their annual round of yearly predictions, the headlines have been flush with forecasts about social media security threats eclipsing many other dangers on the to-do lists of IT security organizations. The theory is that unmanaged social media and Web 2.0 applications will be the root cause of this…

  • Oracle Addresses the Integration of Sun

    REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Oracle, which earlier in the day closed its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems following nine months of thorny legal exercises, Jan. 27 explained to the media how it is morphing the creator of Java, Solaris and the Zettabyte File Server and its 27,600 employees into its own database-driven world. Oracle…

  • Oracle Details Its Ambitions for Sun Microsystems

    REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Oracle, which earlier in the day closed its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems following nine months of thorny legal exercises, Jan. 27 explained to the media how it is morphing the creator of Java, Solaris and the Zettabyte File Server and its 27,600 employees into its own database-driven world. Oracle…

  • Oracle Says Java Will Be ‘Business As Usual`

    When Oracle lays its cards on the table to present its road map for the combined Oracle and Sun Microsystems organization, one thing developers can expect is consistency as far as Java is concerned, according to an Oracle executive. In a meeting with eWEEK on Jan. 26, just a day before Oracle CEO Larry Ellison…

  • CompTIA Certification Change Creates Problems

    In December, the Computing Technology Industry Association decided lifetime A+, Network+ and Security+ certifications were going to retroactively require renewal every three years. The response from the IT community was particularly thorny, and rightfully so. Why the changes? According to Ars Technica, CompTIA was getting its accreditation process evaluated by several larger accreditation organizations, including…

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