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Oracle to Fight DOJ’s Attempt to Block Takeover
Oracle Corp. is taking on the U.S. Department of Justice. After the Justice Department, joined by seven states’ attorneys general, announced Thursday it will seek to block Oracle’s $9.4 billion takeover of PeopleSoft Inc. by federal injunction, Oracle’s board of directors voted to challenge the deal. Oracle also dropped its slate of five nominees for…
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ARCO Launches Disk to Disk Backup
Arco Data Protection Solutions this month launched a disk-to-disk backup solution, EzBackUp with software Zolutions. Designed for desktop computers and small business servers, EzBackup can mirror primary and destination drives of different sizes, posing no limit on drive sizes. Its suggested retail price is $609.00.
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IBM Readies On-Demand Partnership Program
Sources said that IBM on Tuesday will launch the centerpiece of its effort to extend its automated-provisioning technology for on-demand computing into the ISV and Systems Integrator world. The new business partner initiative, dubbed Orchestration and Provisioning Library (OPAL), pulls together a series of tools, best practices, education, validation testing and promotional activities to help…
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The Nuclear Weapon of Digital Rights Law
Few examples of technology-related federal legislation have stirred up more controversy in recent years than the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and now the European Union is considering a similar, yet far more sweeping act—one that could extend to virtually all kinds of intellectual property protections—which critics describe as “nuclear weapons of IP law enforcement.”…
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Sun Goes After HP-UX Customers
Not satisfied with its assault on HP’s Tru64 customer base, Sun Microsystems has made a move to go after HP-UX customers as well, offering them a “risk free” move to SPARC-based or Opteron-based hardware. For several months now, Sun has been trying to convince old DEC and Compaq users to come over to the Solaris…
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New Prescription for Pharmaceuticals
Is all the RFID noise giving you a headache? Take two aspirin and call Accenture Ltd. in the morning. The management consulting firm has organized a group of pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors and retailers to explore radio frequency identification’s (RFID’s) true ability to: • enhance the safety and security of the pharmaceutical supply chain; • improve…
