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HP to Hire ‘Hundreds’ of Salespeople to Push Demand
Hewlett-Packard is hiring “hundreds” of salespeople to increase demand across channels as part of a play for market share, CEO Mark Hurd revealed June 19 in an address to resellers at the vendor’s Americas Partners Conference in Las Vegas. The boost to the direct sales organization, while competing with VARs for business, would ultimately drive…
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HP to Fill in More Pieces of PartnerOne Puzzle
Hewlett-Packard partners are expecting to hear more about the vendor’s ongoing channel transformation at its HP Americas Partner Conference June 19-21 in Las Vegas. The company is expected to announce specifics of its remodeled PartnerOne program that were left out of the initial rollout March 27, including margin and compensation rates, partner level requirements and…
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IBM Grows Reach of Blade.org
IBM is getting a boost for its Blade.org group in the form of more financing, additional members and a new product. The Armonk, N.Y., technology giant kicked off Blade.org in February as a vehicle for encouraging other vendors to build products on top of IBM’s BladeCenter platform. The organization was one of the latest moves…
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HP Hires Best Buy Exec to Run Online Sales Effort
Hewlett-Packard announced June 5 that it has hired former Best Buy executive, Sam Taylor, to lead Web sales in a bid to boost direct sales of the company’s portfolio of personal systems and imaging and printing products and services. Taylor, a veteran of online and catalog sales, was named senior vice president of HP Online…
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Microsoft Announces Team Development Tool for Databases
Microsoft announced a new member of its Visual Studio Team System family geared toward database professionals, and the company also gave some more direction on the future of its development tools overall. Microsoft on May 31 announced Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals, expanding Visual Studio 2005 Team System to include tools that let…
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Microsoft Finds (Random) Way to Secure Vista
A security feature used in the open-source world is now helping to harden Windows Vista against buffer overrun exploits. Microsoft has quietly fitted the feature, called ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) in Windows Vista Beta 2 as part of a larger plan to make it more difficult to automate attacks against the operating system. “Not…
