Tag: Microsoft

  • HP, Microsoft to Develop “People Ready” Services Portfolio

    John Hazard

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    Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard announced Dec. 13 a joint, three-year, $300 million commitment to develop services around Microsoft’s “People Ready Business” initiative. HP’s Technology Solutions Group and Microsoft will jointly develop, test, validate, deploy, sell and market a new solutions portfolio, “HP & Microsoft Solutions for the People-Ready Business,” around five technologies: messaging and unified communications… Read more

  • IBM Tops IDC ISV Program Study; Microsoft, SAP Follow

    IBM Tops IDC ISV Program Study; Microsoft, SAP Follow

    John Hazard

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    An independent study of Vendor ISV programs put IBM’s Partner World Industry Networks atop a list of the top 10, besting rival Microsoft and others in metrics measuring technical, sales and marketing enablement. IBM scored highest in all categories and overall, pulling a 75 out of 100 in the study by research firm IDC, in… Read more

  • CompUSA Gets Microsoft Gold Status

    CompUSA Gets Microsoft Gold Status

    John Hazard

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    CompUSA announced Nov. 30 it had achieved Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status, the same day it became the only retail outlet to sell the software maker’s most important products to small and midsize businesses. The certification grants the retail chain access to partner resources. CompUSA Management is also now the only retail outlet able to… Read more

  • Exanet Unveils New Intelligent Clustered NAS Manager

    Exanet Unveils New Intelligent Clustered NAS Manager

    Chris Preimesberger

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    Network storage software maker Exanet on Nov. 27 introduced a new intelligent enterprise package that uses system virtualization to provide automated data storage and delivery services across a wide range of enterprise platforms. By harnessing commodity storage hardware into a virtual single unit, ExaStore-ICM (Intelligent Cluster Management) offers interoperability by providing support for NFS, CIFS… Read more

  • Ubuntu Founder Solicits OpenSUSE List, Irritates Developers

    Ubuntu Founder Solicits OpenSUSE List, Irritates Developers

    Steven Vaughan-Nichols

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    There has been a great deal of heat in open-source circles over the Novell/Microsoft patent deal, but Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth took it to a whole new level when he went to the main OpenSUSE list to invite OpenSUSE’s developers to abandon Novell SUSE for Ubuntu. In his OpenSUSE list note, Shuttleworth opened by slamming… Read more

  • An Unchanging Vista

    An Unchanging Vista

    Peter Coffee

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    A respected PC industry innovator has made his opinion clear: “The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.” That judgment was delivered in 1996 by a fellow named Steve Jobs—who’s still involved in the business, I believe, at a company that some would call one of Microsoft’s most significant competitors. Does… Read more