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  • IBM to Spend $100 Million on Mainframes

    IBM to Spend $100 Million on Mainframes

    Jeffrey Burt

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    IBM will spend $100 million over the next five years to make the mainframe easier to use. The program will focus on such areas as greater automation, modernizing the user interface and easing the way users manage the software on the machines. It kicked off Oct. 4 with the release of the new z/OS V1.8… Read more

  • Microsoft Tools to Combat Vista Piracy

    Microsoft Tools to Combat Vista Piracy

    Peter Galli

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    Microsoft will unveil Oct. 4 a new software protection platform and accompanying technologies that it plans to incorporate into a variety of products, starting with Windows Vista and Windows Server Longhorn, in hopes of combating piracy. The new technologies will be included in all of Vista versions, and over time every Microsoft product will use… Read more

  • Juniper Expands Easy 8 to Prime the Channel for Smaller Deals

    Juniper Expands Easy 8 to Prime the Channel for Smaller Deals

    John Hazard

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    Juniper Networks eased restrictions and cut steps from its Easy 8 incentive program for partners this month to encourage sales at the lower end of the market. Juniper, of Sunnyvale, Calif., opened Easy 8 incentive rewards to deals between $30,000 and $75,000, enticing new partners previously prohibited by deal size and encouraging sales of solutions… Read more

  • Cisco, Cognio Partner to Fight RF Interference

    Cisco, Cognio Partner to Fight RF Interference

    Wayne Rash

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    Cisco Systems is partnering with Cognio to bring new RF monitoring capabilities to Cisco’s Wireless Control System. Cognio will integrate its Spectrum Expert with WCS so that administrators can see information about their RF environment as a part of their management screens. The result will be an enhanced capability that will allow administrators to spot… Read more

  • Novell Continues to Go for SCO’s Throat

    Novell Continues to Go for SCO’s Throat

    Steven Vaughan-Nichols

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    On Sept. 25, IBM took its crack at ending its case with SCO by summary judgment. Now, it’s Novell’s turn, and the company appears to be attempting to cut off SCO’s lifeline to its cash reserves. On Sept. 29, Novell filed for “partial summary judgment as to its Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Claims for… Read more

  • Citrix Seems to Be Skating to the Puck in 2007

    Citrix Seems to Be Skating to the Puck in 2007

    Michael Vizard

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    With the availability of the business edition of Vista for customers who have volume licensing deals in place with Microsoft about a month away, a lot of attention is soon going to find its way towards Citrix as customers begin to think through their Vista roll out strategy for 2007. Of course, the folks at… Read more