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Bach and Allard Depart Microsoft after Shake-up
Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices (E&D) Division, responsible for consumer products such as the Xbox and Zune media player, underwent a massive shake-up, with Robbie Bach, the unit’s president, and J Allard, its senior vice president of Design and Development, both stepping down from their current positions. The Entertainment and Devices Division is dedicated to more…
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HP Knocks IBM Out of Number One Server Position
HP knocked IBM out of the top server spot in revenues with $3.4 billion and 31.5 percent of market share, according to Gartner’s new market share report. And HP is claiming that it’s selling more servers because of its converged infrastructure story, its broad product portfolio and because it’s HP (which) “allows us to win…
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Don’t Expect Juniper to Invoke Rivals at Confab
The last week of April was busy for the channel. Cisco Systems was holding its annual partner conference in San Francisco. Simultaneously, Hewlett-Packard was in Las Vegas with its loyal followers. And each was talking up a storm about how they were going to take the fight to their rival, and that started a buzz…
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IBM Acquires Sterling Commerce from ATT
NEW YORK/BOSTON, May 24 (Reuters) – IBM (NYSE:IBM) plans to buy Sterling Commerce from AT&T Inc (T.N) for about $1.4 billion in cash, extending the technology behemoth’s portfolio of business software. The move comes amid a flurry of software acquisitions by International Business Machines Corp, Oracle Corp (NASDAQ:ORCL) and SAP AG (DE:SAPG), as they look…
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Acquisitions, Channel Fuel Dell Growth
Like its larger rivals, Dell has been active on the acquisition front, picking up a variety of companies to bolster its offerings, including services (Perot Systems), managed services (SilverBack Technologies), storage (EqualLogic) and earlier this year, system management appliances (Kace). The latter two had their roots in the channel, which is historically uncharted territory for…
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IBM Adds Sybase Migration Technology to IBM DB2
IBM is offering new technology that will allow Sybase users to move to IBM DB2 with virtually no changes to application code. The technology is called DB2 SQL Skin, and will be sold to DB2 customers as a feature starting May 28. Developed jointly by IBM and ANTs Software, the technology is aimed at easing…