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  • Microsoft Skips to 3.0 for CRM

    Microsoft has decided to skip its long-delayed Microsoft CRM 2.0 release and jump right to Version 3.0, the company announced Tuesday. The much-awaited version is scheduled to be released to manufacturing in the fourth quarter with general availability in the first quarter of next year. Partners will get access to the new version in August,…

  • Today’s Hackers Code for Cash, Not Chaos

    As volunteer director of the SANS Institute’s Internet Storm Center, Marcus Sachs has an eagle-eyed view of Internet security, tracking cyber-threats in real time and raising awareness when malicious hackers launch attacks. Sachs also directs the Washington operations of the Cyber Security Research and Development Center, which is operated by SRI International’s Computer Science Laboratory…

  • Intel’s Dual-Core Servers Prepare for Their Close-Up

    Intel Corp. will mark July 2005 as its entry into the dual-core processor server age. Later this month, the chip maker will begin rolling out the first of four new dual-core server platforms for machines ranging from inexpensive, single-processor boxes for small businesses to multiprocessor Xeon servers and high-end Itanium machines for large businesses. Based…

  • Channel Needs to Focus on What It Can Control

    As the second-quarter equity markets ended with a whimper in response to the Federal Reserve’s ninth consecutive 0.25 percent hike in the federal funds interest rate, bringing it up to 3.25 percent, the winners in the quarter were small-caps, mid-caps, technology stocks, oil and gold, the dollar, and, of course, real estate prices, which saw…

  • Radware Retools Channel, VARs Flock to Health Care

    Radware Ltd. this week launched a three-pronged channel program designed to give partners margin protection and engineering assistance. Radware’s Channel Partnership Program mirrors the segmentation of the company’s Intelligent Application Switching product line. Radware offers products in three categories: application security, wide-area network connectivity and application delivery. In those areas, the company makes security appliances,…

  • Gupta Enters U.S. Channel, Partners with Smart Online

    Gupta Technologies LLC of Redwood Shores, Calif., has launched a U.S.-based partner program to better penetrate the small and midsize business market with its secure database and application development tool products. The program, which expands on the SMB strategy Gupta has employed in other regions of the world, is geared toward resellers and ISVs that…

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