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SBS 2008 Muddies the Waters of Hosted Services
Microsoft is finally talking about Small Business Server 2008, but not every VAR is going to like what is being said. Sure, the proposed feature set sounds great, but there is one element that may cause concern, and that is the planned integration with Office Live Small Business, a hosted offering that is direct from…
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HP Reports Earnings Hike
By Philipp Gollner SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co on Tuesday issued a quarterly earnings report and forecast ahead of Wall Street targets as it cut costs and sold more PCs and server computers, sending its stock up 5 percent. The report of a 38 percent profit rise showed HP was able to manage through…
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VARs Reveal What`s Wrong with Windows SBS 2008
What’s wrong with Microsoft’s Windows Small Business Server 2008? It’s not here yet. Microsoft announced the new server family name on Feb. 20. Called Windows Essential Server Solutions family, it includes standard and premium editions of Windows Small Business Server 2008 and standard and premium editions of Windows Essential Business Server 2008 which is aimed…
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Vista SP1 Arrives, Thrives, Excites then Disappoints
At eWEEK’s Channel Labs, a non-descript FedEx envelope arrived today with an almost non-descript DVD that plainly claimed that it was Windows Vista SP1 (Beta). It was an interesting arrival, just to think that so much depended on that plain white DVD, so much for Microsoft and so much for a channel hungry to derive…
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Top Technologies CIOs Want from Solution Providers
Top Technologies CIOs Want from Solution Providers
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Lenovo Launches Linux Laptop and Leaves Lots of Questions
Probably the first thing anyone wants to know about Lenovo’s Linux portable system is, “Does it actually work”? The short answer is yes, everything important works. Lenovo sent us a ThinkPad T61 for evaluation, which by the way is an excellent system in its own right, and it came with Novell’s SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop…