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NetSuite Targets Salesforce Clients with Discounts
BOSTON, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Software maker NetSuite Inc (N.N) launched a marketing campaign on Wednesday to win customers away from rival Salesforce.com Inc (CRM.N), offering them 50 percent discounts over current fees. NetSuite, which is majority-owned by Oracle Corp (ORCL.O founder and billionaire Larry Ellison, is focusing the new marketing drive on pricing at…
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Dell Aims to Outpace Industry, Sees Uncertainty
By Fang Yan and Helen Ding SHANGHAI, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Dell (DELL), the world’s second-biggest computer maker, expects to grow faster than the industry this year but its CEO added it is hard to say whether the global PC market will improve heading into the year-end. While slashing jobs, the company, which made nine…
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IBM Global Financing Sweetens the Credit Pot for Technology Purchases
Looking to ease concerns over technology financing availability and make credit available for IT purchases at a time when companies are tightening their budgets, IBM Global Financing was set to announce a lease financing program on Thursday. The captive finance arm of IBM will announce its "Why Wait?" technology financing offer, which provides 90-day interest-free…
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Remember This Name: Tata
If you don’t know anything about Tata Communications or Tata Consultancy Services, that is about to change. If you’re in managed services, unified communications, network integration or content delivery, you may cross paths with either or both in the near future. And when you do, it will be either as a competitor or a partner.…
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Report: IBM Global Financing on Solid Ground
In the aftermath of the recent financial crisis, providers of credit and financing for technology purchases – distributors and the finance arms of technology vendors — have said that in spite of what’s going on elsewhere it’s still business as usual when it comes to providing credit for IT deals. Click here to read breaking…
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One-time IBM Channel Executive Thomas Jarosh Dies at 55
One-time IBM channel executive Thomas J. Jarosh, who most recently served as vice president of operations in the IBM Systems and Technology Group, passed away Oct. 17, 2008. He was 55. Jarosh, a lifelong IBM employee, served as a channel executive for IBM in the 1990s. He was named vice president of channel strategy and…