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IBM Rational Business Partners Unveil New Products, Services for Software Development Market
Looking to escalate and leverage software’s growing importance throughout a wide and diverse range of industries and applications, IBM has seen explosive growth within its embedded computing business partner community. Underscoring the channel’s interest in this market, IBM Innovate 2011, the developer’s annual conference for Rational Software developers, attracted 400 business partners to Orlando, Fla.,…
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Windows Is Under Fire
Windows Is Under Fire Windows has long been the key to Microsoft’s business. But Microsoft is being targeted from all sides by Mac OS X Lion and Google’s new Chrome OS. In order for Windows to continue to be a dominant force over the long term, Microsoft must make some changes. But that won’t happen…
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Itanium Battle Between HP, Oracle Heads to Court
Hewlett-Packard’s rapidly disintegrating relationship with Oracle is threatening to spill over into the courtroom again, now that HP is suing the software giant over its abandonment of Intel s Itanium processor platform. A week after HP officials sent a demand letter to Oracle essentially warning of a lawsuit over the issue, they followed through June…
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10 Things HP’s Management Shakeup Says About the Company
10 Things HP’s Management Shakeup Says About the Company 1. Leo Apotheker Wants More OversightAs part of HP’s management shakeup, the company said that more top-level managers would be answering to CEO Leo Apotheker. In fact, executive vice president for enterprise servers, storage, networking, and technology services, Dave Donatelli, will report to Apotheker, along with…
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Review: Samsung Series 5 Chromebook
I’ve been playing with a loaner version of the Samsung Series 5 Chromebook for a week and the 3.3-pound notebook based on Google’s Chrome operating system is everything I expected it to be. That is, a more polished version of the Chrome OS version running on the Cr-48 experimental computer I tested last December packed…
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Cisco, Polycom Put Focus on Telepresence for SMBs
When Cisco Systems bought telepresence rival Tandberg last year for $3.3 billion, analysts said Cisco would be able to leverage Tandberg’s presence in the midmarket space to expand its video-conferencing offerings into that area. It was a market Cisco needed to access to continue growing its visual-communications business, the analysts said. That push down the…
