Recent Articles
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IBM Global Financing Lends a Hand on Electronic Medical Records
One of the biggest challenges for channel partners looking to help customers take advantage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act – also known as the economic stimulus package – has been to find EMR vendors who work with the channel. There’s also been a gap between when the solutions must be implemented and when…
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IBM Reaffirms Acquisition Strategy with Lombardi
IBM announced its intention to acquire yet another software provider, Austin, Texas-based Lombardi, in a bid to bump-up its business process management capabilities and solidify its leadership in the middleware market. Like ILOG, which it acquired last year, IBM intends to fold Lombardi’s department-level BPM under the WebSphere umbrella, competitively positioning Big Blue and its…
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Judge Bans Microsoft from Selling Word
(Reuters) – A U.S. court of appeals on Tuesday upheld a $290 million jury verdict against Microsoft Corp for infringing a patent held by a small Canadian software firm, and affirmed an injunction that prevents Microsoft from selling versions of its Word program which contain the offending software. The ruling, by the United States Court…
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Cisco Promotes Learning Channel for Training
One of the little-publicized aspects of Cisco’s channel is a separate program for partners devoted to providing training and education services on Cisco products and solutions. The program’s not new. It’s been in place for 15 years, but of late, the networking giant has been trying to drum up greater notice. The Cisco Learning Channel…
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HP Polishes NonStop Computing Products
HP has announced a number of enhancements to the HP Integrity NonStop portfolio that are intended to deliver increased capacity, improved performance and better enterprise integration. While analysts offer mixed opinions on the platform, Randy Meyer, director of NonStop product management, strategy and technology at HP, says there is a strong market that is appealing…