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Yahoo! cuts workforce by 14% in major business restructure
Yahoo! yesterday confirmed that it is to shed 2,000 jobs as part of reshaping the company for the future, writes Linda Endersby. The company, which will announce its quarterly results on 17 April,currentlyexpects to realise approximately $375m (&poun... News | 05 Apr 2012
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FAST, Trading Standards piracy campaign heads for South East
The Federation Against Software Theft (FAST)and Trading Standards areto bringtheir anti-software piracycampaignto London and the South East, writes Linda Endersby The 'Software - Stay Legal' programme for the region mirrors initiatives in northern En... News | 05 Apr 2012
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Resellers credited with input into IBM big data product launch
In conjunction with business partners IBM has developed software specifically designed to tap into the growing demand for big data solutions. Big Blue's DB2 and InfoSphere Warehouse applications have been four years in the making and involved input ... News | 03 Apr 2012
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Red Hat breaks through $1bn revenue barrier
Open source specialist Red Hat has broken through the $1bn revenue mark with the channel a key factor in the firm's success. The results for the full fiscal year ended 29 February saw the firm reach $1.13bn, a 25% year-on-year increase, and net inco... News | 29 Mar 2012
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Channel braced for Microsoft volume licensing price changes
Microsoft's plans to unify its volume licensing pricing policy across the European Union will leave resellers passing on potential price increases to customers. The vendor has made the decision to unify pricing from 1 July and there are expectations... News | 29 Mar 2012
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Sage highlighted as takeover prospect
City watchers have raised expectations that Sage could be the target of a takeover stoking interest in the software firm. The vendor has been linked with M&A deals in the past, often with an expectation Sage will be involved, but the latest spec... News | 29 Mar 2012
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Atlantis hunts Citrix partners for XenApp virtualisation push
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) specialist Atlantis Computing is taking its first steps into the world of server virtualisation to coincide with the imminent migration off Citrix XenApp 4.5 servers running Windows 2003, and is looking to the Cit... News | 27 Mar 2012
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Power firm caught out by BSA
The Business Software Alliance has struck again in its ongoing battle to punish those that fail to pay for using software landing a £8,000 settlement with power conversion specialist Coverteam. The payment breaks down to include a settlement p... News | 26 Mar 2012
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Software license growth buoys Oracle
Decent levels of software license sales managed to keep things looking positive at Oracle despite the vendor's ongoing weakness on the hardware side of the business. The vendor revealed that new software license revenue was up by 7% for the three mon... News | 21 Mar 2012
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SAP sets sights on database market dominance
SAP is set to make a major announcement next month as it outlines ambitions to become a major player in the database market. The vendor has set 10 April as the date it plans to reveal its strategy in a move that many are seeing as one that will heig... News | 16 Mar 2012