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Novell Launches Services For Enterprise Linux
Novell Inc. on Tuesday launched a set of software services to help enterprises make the switch to Linux from other server operating systems. The Novell Nterprise Linux Services 1.0, which will be available on Thursday, provides Linux support for a set of services and applications that have been available with Novell’s NetWare operating system. These…
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PC Sales to Go Up
The weather outside may be frightful but, with PC sales increasing in 2004, vendors are offering attractive reseller incentives. The channel business promises to be delightful. Due to strong customer demand, International Data Corp. (IDC) anticipates a 15.3 percent fourth quarter boost in global shipments of personal computers. But because of low-price computers, revenues will…
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Channel Stock Winning Streak Continues
Much like the Dow Jones Industrial Average, our Ziff Davis Channel Zone Stock Index continues to hover at an annual high. The index, designed to track 30 solutions providers and IT consulting firms, rose 1.57 percent for the week ended Dec. 12. Advancers beat decliners, 19-11, during the period. The index is up nearly 9…
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NAI Bets On Intrusion Prevention
For network security companies, the past two years have been a blur of innovation and skyrocketing customer demand, both feeding off a string of increasingly disruptive and malicious viruses, worms and targeted attacks. Indeed, as enterprises have scrambled to keep pace with the bad guys and look for better ways to secure their networks, security…
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Feds Unite on Security Benchmarks
A group of high-level IT officials in the federal government has begun collaborating on configuration benchmarks that government agencies could be required to use in future purchases of hardware and software. The development of the benchmarks is at once an indication of the growing importance of security in Washington and of the government’s intention to…
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European Resellers Caught in Lindows vs. Windows Crossfire
Lindows isn’t Windows. Apparently plain old folks don’t know this, however, at least according to the City Court of Stockholm, Sweden. The court issued an injunction at Microsoft Corp.’s request on Dec. 10, barring San Diego-based Lindows.com Inc. from marketing its LindowsOS operating system in Sweden. In its declaration, the City Court “prohibits, for the…
