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Microsoft to Junk Flagship Products, Cites Java Settlement
Microsoft will phase out a slew of products as of December 15, citing its 2001 legal settlement with Sun Microsystems over Java as the impetus. Among the products that Microsoft will no longer make available to customers through any of the Microsoft’s sales channels are Windows 98, SQL Server 7 and a number of versions…
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Roaming Bedevils Wi-Fi Value-Add Services
San Jose, CA–The future of value-add services in the Wi-Fi space can be summed up in one word: Roaming. Without roaming agreements to simplify the billing and log-on procedures that now complicate the use of Wi-Fi hotspots, user adoption cannot achieve the kind of critical mass needed to make Wi-Fi value-added services truly profitable. That…
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Linux vs. Windows: The Proverbial Truth for Solution Providers
An old Chinese proverb states, “A sly rabbit will have three openings to its den.” The annotation – to succeed, you must have several alternatives. This is particularly true for one of the IT’s industry’s most-heated and long-standing debates: Linux vs. Windows. As solution providers, we’ve heard both sides of the debate. Windows is resident…
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A Week of Shake-Ups in the Channel
It’s been a week of shake-ups at tech companies. Michael Sinneck, lured to Microsoft from IBM Global Services in January 2002, is returning to the East Coast for “personal reasons.” Replacing him as vice president of worldwide services will be Rick Devenuti, who is also worldwide CIO and will assume internal IT responsibilities. Sinneck is…
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Contract Watch: Eye on Europe
If you have global ambitions, it’s time to act on them. A mounting pile of anecdotal evidence suggests that the IT recovery is spreading from the U.S. to foreign shores. For the first time in 27 months, server sales in Western Europe are on the upswing. Year-over-year server revenue was $2.9 billion in 3Q 2003,…
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Blended Threats: New Recipes for IT Disaster
As the volume of e-mail skyrockets, so do the horrific system dangers posed by so-called blended threats. These hazards, such as Code Red and Nimda, combine hacking, computer worms, denial-of-service attacks, and at times Web site defacements into a single, sophisticated assault. Likely to become the norm, it’s crucial for businesses and consumers to implement…
