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Microsoft to Make Vista Easier to Buy Online
Categories: News and TrendsMicrosoft is making it easier for customers to buy, upgrade and license multiple copies of Windows Vista online. The Redmond, Wash. software maker will unveil three new programs on Jan. 18 designed to give users additional flexibility in the ways they can go online to get Vista, which will be widely available on Jan. 30.… Read more
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HP Campaign Bows to New Marketing Dynamic
Categories: News and TrendsFor years now solution providers have been prodding vendors to do something more meaningful in the way of advertising beyond just creating branding campaigns or offers around specific products. For all intents and purposes, branding campaigns are vendor chest-thumping exercises that generally fail to promote any new commercial activity, while product advertising tends to emphasize… Read more
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Source Code Specialist Fortify to Buy Secure Software
Categories: News and TrendsApplications development security specialist Fortify Software announced that it has agreed to buy a majority of privately held rival Secure Software for an undisclosed amount of money. Fortify, which is also a private company, reported Jan. 17 that it has signed a definitive contract to purchase Secure, which has its headquarters in McLean, Va., but… Read more
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Monster Invites Job Seekers to See How They Measure Up
Imagine applying for a systems administrator position at Yahoo with the knowledge that you have more years of education and experience than 80 percent of the other applicants. Monster, a careers site based in Maynard, Mass., announced Jan. 17 it would be adding a feature that shares this information, along with a series of other… Read more
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LSI Logic Delivers New Entry-Level SAN to OEMs
Categories: News and TrendsLSI Logic, one of the few IT companies that develops and makes storage chips, software and hardware, started shipping in mid-January the newest addition to its lineup of enterprise-class SAN systems for OEM partners: a direct-attached storage array that can transition into a SAN with minimal reconfiguration. The Fibre Channel-connective Engenio 1932, which features a… Read more
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Cognos Acquires Celequest to Speed BI
Categories: News and TrendsBusiness intelligence software developer Cognos announced Jan. 17 the acquisition of Celequest, developer of an operational dashboard appliance. The acquisition closed on Jan. 16. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. By adding privately held Celequest to its roster, Cognos will achieve several objectives: a longer reach into channel markets, a better breadth of offerings… Read more