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  • 3Com Talks Up Security
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    3Com last week outlined a strategy for integrating security features into its networking product lines and expanded its product portfolio with a new security switch.

  • <I>CRN</I> Interview: Jim Grant, Remedy
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    BMC Software's acquisition of Remedy in 2002 cemented BMC's Business Service Management (BSM) strategy, which aims to help companies manage their IT needs from a business perspective. Remedy's Vice President and General Manager, Jim Grant, recently spoke with CRN Managing Editor Charlene O'Hanlon about the business application vendor's role in BSM and its product and channel plans for the coming year.

  • Linux 2.6, Novell Linux Services 1.0 Debut
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    The Linux market got a major shot in the arm last week, as the Open Source Development Labs announced the completion of the Linux 2.6 production kernel and Novell released its NetWare services on Linux.

  • <I>CRN</I> Interview: Darl McBride & Chris Sontag, SCO Group
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    SCO Group CEO Darl McBride and Senior Vice President Chris Sontag recently met with CRN Industry Editor Barbara Darrow to discuss a variety of topics related to SCO's suit against IBM and an unnamed Enterprise Linux User. The SCO-IBM case IS slated to hit a Utah courtroom in 18 months. Earlier this month, a Utah judge ruled that SCO must show the code at issue in this case within 30 days. Open-source advocates have maintained thet SCO has no case. SCO says IBM violated its contract.

  • CRN Interview: Janet Perna & Brett MacIntyre, IBM Software
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    Janet Perna, general manager of IBM Software's Data Management group, and Brett MacIntyre, vice president of content management for IBM Software, spoke with CRN Industry Editor Barbara Darrow on Thursday, a day after IBM announced its acquisition of Green Pasture Software, a Corvallis, Ore.-based provider of document management applications. The deal marked the third content management-related acquisition within a year for IBM Software.

  • NEC Demos Single Optical Head HD DVD
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    NEC Corp. said it has developed prototypes of the HD DVD disk system that maintains compatibility with current DVD disks with just a single optical head.

  • i2 Telecom Seeks New VARs For VoIP
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    VoIP provider i2 Telecom continues its drive into the IT enterprise area by signing VARs, aiming to install Web-telephoning capabilities in small businesses without replacing existing telecommunications infrastructures.

  • DoCoMo To Fund Advanced-Handset Development
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    NTT DoCoMo tipped its hand on future offerings Friday, when it announced it will award $344 million to handset developers to work on a generation of handsets based on the Linux and Symbian operating systems.

  • Sun Bets On High-Performance Computing For A Volume Market
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    Sun Microsystems executives working on a military-funding supercomputing research project say they're developing a new, Java-like programming language and run-time environment that could simplify programming high-performance computing applications.

  • Fujitsu Says Only Two Companies Making Money In Enterprise PCs
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    It's the start of a new regime at Fujitsu, and with it will come changes that will affect you and your business -- as well as the rest of the channel. Toshio Morohoshi, president and CEO of the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Fujitsu Computer Systems, and Dennis Mull, senior vice president of sales and marketing, sat down recently with the editors of VARBusiness to give us their thoughts on the direction and strategies of the newly created company.

  • Citrix Acquires Expertcity In $225 Million Deal
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    In its largest acquisition to date, Citrix Systems Thursday inked a definitive agreement to acquire Expertcity, a leader in providing Web-based desktop access and help desk services, for $225 million in cash and stock.