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Ballmer: We will continue to compete hard with SAP
News Ballmer attempted to reassure the audience of partners and independent software firms that the talks with SAP in no way compromised Microsoft's backing of its services partners when competing for business with the ERP vendor.
[July 14, 2004, 10:15]
IBM welcomes all SCSI devices to the SAN
News Rich Lechner, vice president of IBM's storage division, said that although SANs were originally designed to allow an enterprise to virtually pool all of its storage systems from a single point, the task has been difficult because companies tended...
[May 25, 2004, 10:05]
PC buyers could get cheapest Xmas ever
News Compaq, another vendor using the MediaGX, in September launched a consumer deal for its Presario line, where customers could create their own software bundle from a range of titles from Electronic Arts, Dorling Kindersley and others.
[December 2, 1997, 15:40]
Netbook market? What netbook market?
Blog Today's 'default' netbook, from a name-brand vendor, delivers quasi-desktop functionality, costs as much as that vendor's (now non-existent) lower-cost notebooks/laptops, ie in the US$500 range, and we have the tier-1 name brand vendors...
[April 30, 2009, 9:38]
Is Sun subverting Linux from the inside?
News He believes it reflects a desire to reverse the widespread view that the vendor is "very proprietary", and to point up the fact that it has been a major contributor to the open source community for years.
[February 1, 2005, 9:25]
Bring on the standard blade chassis!
Blog Buy a chassis from a blade vendor and you're locked into that vendor's product strategy and price list. In fact, in some cases you can't even swap servers across chassis from the same vendor. There's no sign of inter-vendor interoperability...
[July 22, 2009, 16:00]
Valentine's Day brings spam and scams, warns FBI
Blog Security vendor Kaspersky has a slightly different take on a similar story -- the Russian anti-malware company has reported a spike of spam this morning (February 14), and mass mailings since Monday: The Russian security vendor first noticed the...
[February 14, 2008, 10:50]
Intel price cuts to put P-166 in nice light
News There is a lot of scope for people at the network box replacement or even workgroup server end," said a spokesman for one PC vendor who requested anonymity. The reason they skipped a cut last time was there was no competition," said a spokesman for...
[January 30, 1997, 16:06]
The Day Ahead: Corel hopes Jobs' Microsoft play works twice
News After the closing bell Monday, Microsoft said it would buy 24 million non-voting shares of Canadian software vendor Corel, good for an investment of $135m. With Corel using .Net maybe the struggling software vendor will tone down its rhetoric about...
[October 3, 2000, 12:33]
JBoss moves up the stack
News The market for workflow engines is fragmented, with no single vendor able to handle all process requirements, according to a report from Gartner called 'Creating a BPM and Workflow Automation Vendor Checklist.
[October 18, 2004, 12:10]
Tech-obsessed BPM vendors ignoring users' needs
News Another significant issue that also divides the vendor and user communities is the 'automation' (the vendor position) versus 'human workflow' (business analyst vision) disparity that continues to exist.
[January 23, 2008, 14:26]
Linux groomed for government role
News The government wants to get open-source certified, but they don't want to certify for any specific vendor," Tony Stanco, senior policy analyst for open-source and e-government at the Cyberspace Policy Institute, said at a panel discussion on...
[August 16, 2002, 13:24]
Viglen-MS PC deal raises ire, suspicion
News How can there be a level playing field if Microsoft goes around giving one PC vendor special treatment? asked one vendor who requested anonymity. We don't really see the value-add ourselves," said Demetre Cheras, systems marketing manager at...
[October 2, 1997, 17:31]
Unbundle IE in Europe? Why stop there?
Blog At the moment, pretty much every computer that a consumer buys from a brand-name vendor comes mandatorily pre-installed with one of Microsoft's operating systems. Microsoft has already been embedding this kind of technology in Windows for years, as...
[June 15, 2009, 9:24]
A typo in the article, and an explanation of the Indian vote.
Talkback This breaks ISO's rules, and makes OOXML pointless except as a tool for fraudulently marketing it as an open and vendor neutral standard. These issues were not present with ODF which is fully described, capable of being implemented in full by...
[September 3, 2007, 16:13]
The Day Ahead: Dell cornered by growth expectations
News The direct PC vendor also missed sales estimates in the second quarter, bringing out a host of doubters. Dell also said he wasn't about to abandon desktop sales since PCs are still three to four times more profitable for the direct PC vendor than...
[October 5, 2000, 12:04]
Novell's open source migration progressing slowly
News Hovsepian’s remarks indicate Novell will have at most a few months’ experience as a complete Linux and open source desktop shop behind it when, according to the vendor’s predictions, the software starts taking off in the mainstream.
[April 11, 2006, 11:20]
Microsoft: Firewalls are failing to keep out hackers
News I don't care which vendor you get it from," he said. But when you do that you relay control to the security vendor. Speaking in London on Monday at a technical briefing on the need for next generation firewalls, Microsoft security technology...
[October 5, 2004, 12:15]
A Year Ago: PC buyers could get cheapest Xmas ever
News Compaq, another vendor using the MediaGX, in September launched a consumer deal for its Presario line, where customers could create their own software bundle from a range of titles from Electronic Arts, Dorling Kindersley and others.
[December 1, 1998, 5:15]
BT launches hosted applications platform
News However, critics point out that using SaaS necessarily implies faith in the security and reliability of the vendor's chosen hosting service. SaaS is a burgeoning market, as shown by Salesforce.com's recent decision to allow developers to build and...
[April 25, 2007, 16:10]
