CRN Application and OS News for VARs and Technology Integrators

Q&A: Red Hat New Channel Sales Chief On Future

Red Hat's new vice president of North American channel sales says customer segmentation will drive channel sales model and forthcoming services model for partners.
Stallman Sings For Free Software And Friday Funnies

What's a good course of action for a Friday afternoon after a long week? Perhaps watching Richard Stallman perform at least part of his Free Software Ditty.
With its upcoming Siebel 8 release, Oracle will bring Siebel CRM into Linux realm for the first time.

Oracle To Bring Siebel CRM To Linux

When Oracle releases Siebel 8 later this year, the venerable CRM application will, for the first time, run on Linux servers.
Two Paris-based Linux firms join forces.

French Connection: Mandriva Acquires Linbox

Paris-based Linux distributor Mandriva announced its intent to acquire Linbox to enhance its infrastructure authentication, backup and asset management capabilities. Mandriva also acquired Conectiva in Brazil and U.S. assets of Lycoris in 2005.
IBM Donates New JavaScripting Tool To Open Source

IBM has developed a JavaScript tool that it said will make it easy for business analysts and other non-programmers to build basic, interactive Web applications.
Firefox Gains Ground On IE

For the third consecutive month, Mozilla's Firefox has gained share, hitting 12.5 percent of the browser market, while Internet Explorer's still commanding lead has slipped slightly.
Red Hat Names Ex-Lenovo/IBM Exec Enzweiler To Head Channel Sales

Red Hat on Wednesday said it has named Mark Enzweiler, a former Lenovo and IBM channel executive, to drive its channel program.
Ingram Micro Taps LPI Level Platforms For MSP Business

Ingram Micro has entered into an exclusive alliance with MSP platform vendor LPI Level Platforms as part of an effort to make the distributor's managed services ambitions a reality.
Report: Gov. IT Business To Plunge, Except For DHS

While most of the top 20 IT budgets will be trimmed, Department of Homeland Security's IT budget will continue to grow.
Review: Applications And OSes At Your Service

Ardence Software Streaming Platform 4.0 uses a new software streaming technique that delivers operating systems and application stacks from network storage to any device.
Review: Patch Management Solution Offers VARs Recurring Income

Patchlink's latest patch management product, Patchlink Update 6.3, brings new features and can help VARs generate a recurring revenue stream by offering security-related services.
Xerox Acquires XMPie

Xerox said Tuesday it will pay $54 million to acquire XMPie, a privately held company that provides variable information software.
Top 20 Contracts In 2007 Worth $118 Billion

The total value of the top 20 contracts in 2007 is less than half the value of those in 2006, with an average ceiling of $6 billion, according to a report released by Reston, Va.-based research firm Input.
AppRiver Ups Ante For Hosted Exchange

The heat is on in hosted e-mail: AppRiver erases storage limits for its hosted Exchange Server, while other providers boost storage as Google and Microsoft prep services offerings.
Citrix Appoints New U.S. Channel Chief

Citrix U.S. channel chief Bill Burley is moving to the products group and is being succeeded by three-year Citrix vet.
Microsoft Buys Group Policy Management Developer

Microsoft has acquired DesktopStandard Corp., a New Hampshire-based developer of Group Policy-based enterprise desktop management software.
'I, Too, Was Pretexted'

No, not me. Pattie Dunn.
Whitebook Builders Profit From Notebook Battery Recall Fallout

Forget co-op dollars. Forget rebates. When it comes to whitebooks, FUD is the new MDF—thanks to the continuing fallout from the Sony bad-battery kerfuffle.
Time for a reality check: watching 'i' words

Instead Of Worrying Just About Legality, Execs Must Think More About Ethics

I think it's officially time to worry about the lack of ethics that preside over the manner in which technology is used and how this will likely result ultimately in the overregulation of the high-tech industry.
High hopes that Kafkarkou's interim role as channel chief is a permanent one

Partners To CA: You've Already Got The Right Man For The Job

The role of CA channel chief has changed hands four times in the past three years.

Slide Shows

	5 Major IoT Challenges Executives Are Grappling With A recent survey of more than 100 IoT executives found that many of them face issues when it comes to scalability, implementation, connectivity and security of IoT deployments, pointing to potential opportunities for solution providers.
	5 Things You Should Know About Cisco's Decision To Fold Spark Into Webex Cisco has announced that the former Spark platform will be known as Webex Teams, and it comes along with the launch of a new Webex Meetings application, as well as a new Webex Assistant and a Webex Share device.
	CRN Interview: Atos North America CEO On U.S. Expansion, M&A Strategy And Why Labor Arbitrage Is Dying "The world of offshoring everything to India or the Philippines is gone because customers want people next to them," said Atos North America CEO Patrick Adiba, in an interview with CRN.