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McAfee Claims No. 1 Pure-Play Security Spot with Secure Computing Acquisition
With the acquisition of Secure Computing, McAfee is solidifying its spot as the world’s largest pure-play security technology vendor, positioning itself better against key competitors and opening a mother lode of new technologies to its channel resellers. McAfee will pay $465 million for Secure Computing, one of the oldest security companies in the marketplace. With…
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The Eee PC from Asus offers Atom Power.
Selecting a portable device is becoming like something out of The Three Bears: this one is too small, this one is too big and this one is just right! Asus is hoping that the “just right” selection takes the form of their latest netbook, the$599 Eee PC 901. The Eee PC 901 is a little…
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Dell`s Mixed Channel Signals
Arnie Bellini makes no bones about Dell: He simply doesn’t like it. Worse, he considers it a threat to his customers, the managed service providers that use ConnectWise management and reporting tools. At his fourth annual partner conference in Orlando last week, the chief executive of ConnectWise made his beliefs crystal clear by plastering on…
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MSPs Take Dells Direct Managed Services Move in Stride
Although the pricing and customer targets of Dell’s new direct managed services offering go to the heart of MSP competitive offerings in the New York market, managed service providers there took the news in stride. Dell’s offering targets businesses with from five to hundreds of employees, according to Dell, and pricing falls into three tiers—Alerts…
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Oracle Profit Beats Expectations as Margins Rise
By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) – Oracle Corp (ORCL), the world’s No. 3 software maker, posted stronger-than-expected quarterly profit as operating margins hit their highest level ever for the period, sending its shares up 6 percent. The company also reported a 14 percent rise in sales of new software licenses and gave an outlook for…
