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Microsoft Freezes Research Budget, Girds for Google Fight
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp does not expect to make acquisitions to help the company challenge Google Inc’s dominance in the Internet search market, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told Reuters on Monday. "No, I wouldn’t expect it," he said when asked whether acquisitions would be part of the strategy. Microsoft recently agreed to a search partnership…
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Dell Lowers Deal Registration Threshold for SMBs to $15K
Dell is lowering its deal registration threshold for reseller channel partners in North America selling into small business and midsize business from $50,000 to just $15,000. Dell executives say the change is designed to allow more partners to benefit from special pricing, consultations with the Dell sales team and other resources available through the Dell…
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Cisco, IBM, HP and Dell Named as Possible Brocade Suitors
Brocade (NASDAQ:BRCD) has put itself on the market, and Hewlett-Packard and Oracle are among those interested in potentially buying the networking and storage technology vendor, according to a report today in the Wall Street Journal. Several big technology vendors—HP, Sun, IBM and most recently Dell—have built their vertical data center solutions via partnerships with Brocade,…
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Cisco Partners Already Sell Tandberg in the Middle
In talking to Cisco partners about the networking giant’s plan to acquire video conferencing big-leaguer Tandberg, one thing becomes very clear. Most of these guys already sell Tandberg – a lot. It makes perfect sense that they do. Cisco’s Telepresence video conferencing solution, which I’ve used and will vouch is incredibly cool technology, is nonetheless…
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Cisco’s Chambers: Partners Crucial to Success of Tandberg Deal
On the heels of announcing plans to acquire video conferencing stalwart Tandberg for $3 billion, Cisco‘s CEO John Chambers along with Tandberg CEO Fredrik Halvorsen put out a video blog meant to assure partners of their critical role in selling the combined technologies and solutions. Check it out.
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HP Pulls ProCurve in As Part of Family
At least since Cisco’s ‘Californication’, when the network giant announced it was entering the data center server market, HP has been busy shoring up its networking portfolio, culminating in this week’s announcement that its data center and network businesses will be closely tied together at some point in the near future. In addition to making…