Tag: engineering

  • Systems Engineers in Demand, Command High Pay

    Channel Insider Staff

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    You may not have noticed, but systems engineering is a promising career choice. In 2009, it was rated No. 1 out of the Top 50 careers in terms of salary and growth prospects over the next 10 years by CNNMoney.com and Payscale.com. Right now in May 2010, the average wage for a systems engineer is… Read more

  • Oracle Details Its Ambitions for Sun Microsystems

    Channel Insider Staff

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    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… Read more

  • Social Engineering Fueled by Social Networks is a Potent Threat

    Lawrence Walsh

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    Infamous hacker Kevin Mitnick earned his reputation—and jail time—not for his technical prowess, but rather his ability to find soft targets in his target organizations and silver tongue in plying them for information that allowed him to access systems. The technique is known as “social engineering.” Nothing new to report here, and it’s a bit… Read more

  • Oracle Makes BEA Proposal

    Sara Driscoll

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    Oracle has announced its intention to acquire BEA Systems in a letter of proposal to the Board of Directors of BEA. The deal is a suggested $17 per share in cash, which is a 25 percent premium over Oct. 11’s closing price of $13.62. “We have made a serious proposal including a substantial premium for… Read more

  • Report Describes ‘Culture of Fear’ at CA

    Report Describes ‘Culture of Fear’ at CA

    Paula Musich

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    The Special Litigation Report released on Feb. 13 was scathing in its description of the way CA was run under Charles Wang’s guidance. In the report, the SLC described a “culture of fear” cultivated among employees, a startling lack of internal finance and audit controls given the size of the company and a “profound failure… Read more

  • The New Solution-Selling Paradigm

    The New Solution-Selling Paradigm

    Dylan Charles

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    A revolution is taking place in the way solution providers go to market with large technology vendors. Innovative vendors are rethinking the allocation of marketing resources and how they utilize marketing infrastructure to effectively scale their channel relationships, particularly for the small and midsize markets. The goal is proactive, cooperative engagement helping solution providers to… Read more