The CRN.com News Quiz -- March 2011
Yo, Adrian! Former HP channel chief Adrian Jones is reuniting with an old boss at what new company?
IBM
Juniper
Oracle
Salesforce
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Microsoft, that spunky underdog, came to this month's XChange Solution Provider looking for new partners to challenge the market leader in what technology?
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Business Management Software
Databases
Operating Systems
Virtualization
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Western Digital announced plans to acquire what vendor, reducing to two the number of big hard drive manufacturers?
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EMC
Hitachi Global Storage
Quantum
Seagate
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For sale: one security and content filtering company, slightly used. Who is reportedly looking for a buyer?
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Panda Security
Raritan
Trend Micro
Websense
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Internet Explorer 9 launched at the South by Southwest tech show this month. Where is South by Southwest held, anyway?
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Albuquerque, New Mexico
Austin, Texas
Las Vegas, Nevada
Phoenix, Arizona
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They say unemployment's coming down. Who snapped up James Gosling, the 'Father of Java', formerly of Sun (and briefly, Oracle)?
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Apple
Google
HP
IBM
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He's virtually thrilled! What retailer's tech manager is blogging about how successful Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines have been for his business?
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Home Depot
Macy's
Target
Wal Mart
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HP is reaching out to partners to lobby Oracle against dropping support of what technology?
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Itanium
Java
MySQL
WebOS
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I'll be your best friend, for a billion dollars... Microsoft is paying what manufacturer to develop Windows Phone 7-based handsets?
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HTC
LG
Motorola
Nokia
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I guess they got tired of the commercials. AT&T announced plans to acquire what other wireless carrier?
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Alltell
Sprint
T-Mobile
Verizon
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For more on the stories in this quiz, see the following articles:
Former HP Channel Chief Takes Senior Executive Post At Oracle
Microsoft Takes Aim At VMware In Virtualization Throw-Down
Western Digital Plans $4.3B Buy Of Hitachi GST
Microsoft Set To Launch Internet Explorer 9 Monday At SxSW
Google Grabs Gosling, Father Of Java
Target Says It's Hitting On All Cylinders With Microsoft Hyper-V
HP Asks Partners To Help Change Oracle's Mind On Itanium
Report: Microsoft Paying Nokia $1 Billion For Windows Phone 7 Alliance