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Report: National Health Information Network Needs More Coordination
A report by a leading health IT group concludes that the federal government should have more oversight over health IT. It comes just as four consortia unveiled prototype versions of a National Health Information Network. The report was written under a federal contract by the American Health Information Management Association. The four consortia are also…
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Gartner Offers Vista Upgrade Advice
Calling Vista’s November 2006 business launch more of a “message to organizations that they could start official testing” than the beginning of a time in which the operating system would appear on millions of enterprise machines, a report released Jan. 30 by Gartner offers IT professionals advice on planning and deploying Vista. Now that the…
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Donna Troy to Leave SAP’s Global Channel
SAP’s Donna Troy will resign her post as head of the software maker’s global channel program, company sources revealed Jan. 29. Troy, executive vice president of global SME (small and midsize enterprise) indirect channels, will leave the company soon, following a restructuring of SAP’s channel and sales groups that brought her team and position under…
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Linux and the Channel: Top Distributions for Resellers
I was recently contacted by a major Unix reseller with a very simple question: With the writing on the wall for Unix growing bigger and bigger with every quarter, which Linux should the company adopt? It’s a good question, and the answer depends not just on the pluses and minuses of each Linux distribution, its…
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IBM Researchers Predict More Vulnerabilities in ’07
New research indicates that enterprises will continue to grapple with long lists of dangerous software vulnerabilities during 2007, with experts at IBM predicting continued growth in the number of flaws found in popular products over the next twelve months. According to a report published by IBM’s ISS (Internet Security Systems) X-Force research team on Jan.…
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Salesforce.com, Deloitte Announce Alliance to Bring Apex to the Enterprise
Salesforce.com and Deloitte Consulting are going global with on-demand development capabilities. The two companies announced Jan. 30 a strategic alliance that has Deloitte building out its customer relationship management practice around Salesforce.com’s applications and Apex development platform. As part of the alliance, Deloitte Consulting will incorporate Salesforce.com’s suite of CRM applications, as well as its…
