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ISVS Seek Federal Security Help
After years of imploring government officials to stay out of their way, some security industry executives have reversed their position and are asking for Washington’s input to improve software quality and network security. How serious they would be about following government suggestions or rules, however, is in doubt, experts say. The accession is part of…
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Channel Stocks Stage Wall Street Rally
An improving job market and lucrative IT contracts last week gave our Ziff Davis Channel Zone Stock Index its biggest lift in more than two months. For the week ended April 2, our index rose a healthy 5.71 percent, easily outpacing the Dow (+2.5 percent), the S&P 500 (+3 percent) and the Nasdaq (+4.9 percent)…
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Cisco Targets Verticals With Networking Suites
Cisco Systems Inc. is stepping up efforts to target vertical industries with a tailored set of networking suites that feature a range of partners providing value-added applications and services. The San Jose, Calif., company last week launched its first formal networking solutions targeted at the transportation industry, but it also has its sights set on…
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BEA Gets on Service Bus
WASHINGTON—Despite predictions that IBM and Microsoft Corp. will dominate the emerging ESB space, BEA Systems Inc. is quietly working on delivering enterprise service bus capabilities for Web services in a product slated for release early next year. During an interview at the BEA Federal Technology Symposium here last week, Alfred Chuang, chairman and CEO of…
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IBM Packages Compliance Tools
In its drive to assist companies facing compliance with more than 100 national and international rules and regulations, IBM on Monday rolled out three new software packages designed to ease the tracking and management of compliance-related data. The applications are built around three principal IBM software packages—Content Manager, Tivoli and Lotus Workplace. The first, called…
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Microsoft Releases Source Code on SourceForge
On Monday, Microsoft released some of its code under an open-source license, and posted it on SourceForge, the open-source code repository. To date, Microsoft has made its source code available under a variety of licensing mechanisms, all under its “shared source” umbrella. But until today, the company had not released code under what is commonly…
