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Oracle Retooling E-Biz Suite
Oracle Corp. is working to certify its E-Business Suite of enterprise applications for use with the company’s forthcoming Oracle 10g database and application server, which will be optimized for grid computing. Oracle officials said that the beauty of its Oracle 10g technology is that it will allow users to run the company’s applications on a…
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Want to Boost Technology Sales? Incent Your Support Staff
Clues for sales are everywhere, and many times they fall in the lap of someone who is not part of your company’s sales team. While most of these leads are passed along to a sales professional, it’s not a bad idea to provide incentives to the support team to continue to look for clues. This…
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Protesters Rally against Offshore Outsourcing
Protesters from at least seven workers’ organizations protested the loss of US high-tech jobs as a result of offshore outsourcing last week outside a meeting of the Strategic Research Institute in New York about how companies can save money by farming out jobs. Stamford, Ct.-based analysts Gartner Inc. predicts the United States will lose one…
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Is Eclipse in Sun’s Future?
Will Sun Microsystems Inc. join the Eclipse open-source Java development platform effort? Sources close to the company said despite Sun’s official decline of an invitation to join Eclipse last month, the company is still looking to join and may be closer now than ever, as the Eclipse Consortium is on the verge of transitioning to…
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EMC Eyes Data Growth
EMC Corp. is expanding its storage management initiative with a software suite that gives organizations tools for limiting the volume of data that can be placed in their enterprise databases. The new DatabaseXtender suite enables organizations to monitor database growth and identifies and relocates inactive data to various lower-cost storage devices. As a result, enterprises…
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It’s Earnings Season: High Times and Disappontments for High-Tech Integrators
During lunch last week, a marketing consultant asked me where I thought stocks were heading for the rest of this year. It was a question I dare not answer. I’m no financial analyst. And I don’t have a crystal ball that foretells world events. But I did learn a really important lesson during the dot-com…
