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Trying for the Top: Desktop Linux Aims for the Big Time
Linux desktops have always faced an uphill battle against Windows desktops. Now, OSDL is calling together architects from over two-dozen key desktop-oriented Linux projects to a Dec. 1-2 meeting at its headquarters to set strategic directions and standards, and find synergies amongst Desktop Linux organizations. Armed with detailed information about what Linux desktop users really…
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Is System Lockdown the Secret Weapon?
In the ongoing battle to fight internal and external threats on the corporate desktop, IT staffers may be forgetting one very potent weapon in their arsenal—system lockdown. As corporate IT managers evaluate products and technologies designed to protect corporate Windows-based computers against the ever-present tide of spyware, worms and Trojans, they should also consider a…
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Services Microsoft Should, Could (and Just Might) Develop
By now, “The Internet Services Disruption” missive from Microsoft Chief Technology Office Ray Ozzie has been dissected ad infinitum. But we have yet to see Softies or Soft watchers attempt to put any real meat on Ozzie’s services bones. Ozzie itemized several general categories of services into which he believes Microsoft should delve in the…
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NetEx Introduces IP WAN Data Migration
Data transport vendor NetEx has come up with a different way—and more predictable, faster, and cheaper, company executives claim—to migrate large amounts of data over IP WAN connections. The service, called the DMO (Data Migration Optimizer) program, offers resellers and systems integrators, as well as large companies interested in attempting migration independently, a way to…
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Avnet Sells HP Business to UK Firm
IT distributor Avnet this week signed over its U.S. Hewlett-Packard Co. end-user business to HP’s largest reseller in a move that further solidifies Avnet’s commitment to the two-tiered distribution model. The deal gives Logicalis, a U.K. firm, ownership of Avnet’s $100 million HP reselling business for an undisclosed sum and secures Logicalis’ HP and IBM…
