Systemax saves CompUSA from knacker's yard
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Cherry-picks 16 stores Systemax is buying the CompUSA brand name, its ecommerce operations and up to 16 stores in the great CompUSA close-out sale. The big US computer reseller hails CompUSA as a "strong complementary" business to its own retail TigerDirect brand and is paying up to $30m for its new baby, depending on how many stores it actually buys.â¦
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Surprise! The KVM open-source virtualization software is at the foundation of a desktop virtualization software start-up's business.
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Plain kit, sweet file system Rackable Systems this week made an unusual acquisition for a no nonsense server vendor. It bought flashy storage software maker Terrascale for $38m in cash.â¦
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Precise set free for a fee Five years and thousands of broken dreams ago, Veritas ate application performance management software maker Precise for $609m. And now Symantec is offloading the pricey baggage.â¦
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A software patch to protect your system is available from Microsoft.
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Sanmina-SCI sells business to Foxconn and Lenovo Sanmina-SCI, the US electronics contract manufacturing company, has sold its PC business to Foxconn, a major Taiwanese competitor, for between $80m-$90m. It is also selling its Mexican PC plant to Lenovo, for an undisclosed sum.â¦
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A suite of diskless Folding At Home utilities. http://reilly.homeip.net/folding   Download from http://reilly.homeip.net/folding/  Moved source and bug / feature tracking to SourceForge. Fixed a couple of issues in the SMP hang check - now supports multiple SMP instances (if you have more than 4 processors) and still does the kill if the Autosend text happens after the hang. Also added a check that the download from Stanford didn't error and if it did print troubleshooting suggestions and stop there.
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Passive-Aggressive behavior Network Appliance is suing Sun Microsystems in an intellectual property spat over - you guessed it - file systems.â¦
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A soft IT market is weighing on the storage company.
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Microsoft is applying for a patent for an operating system that starts out crippled.  You must pay to do things like take the throttle off network speed, disk access, install drivers, install software, and more.  Trust me, I rarely even visit Groklaw, even if this is my second consecutive blog entry with a link to a Groklaw article. My VarLinux.org readers posted the article, A Brave New Modular World, and I had to share it.
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Officials at Computer Associates International Inc. are trying to upgrade their image in the storage market with a bundled solution that contains many applications that were previously available individually
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TechWeb - The project taps into a designated game console's unused compute power to contribute to a distributed computing network.
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CommVault has announced extended backup and recovery support for Novell NetWare and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9. CommVault Galaxy Backup and Recovery is part of the company's QiNetix product suite, which provides solutions for data protection including integrated backup/recovery, migration, archiving, replication, and storage management. CommVault Galaxy Backup and Recovery protects heterogeneous environments including Linux file systems and clustered file systems. Support for Novell Open Enterprise Server will be available later this year.
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Blog: Long-running dispute between the server and software company and the smaller Java hardware maker ends with an undisclosed settlement, and both sides say they're content.
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Systemax Inc. (NYSE:SYX), a leading distributor and manufacturer of PC hardware, related computer products and industrial products in North America and Europe, today announced the appointment of Thomas Axmacher as Vice President and Controller of the Company effective October 2, 2006. Mr.
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The PC maker's founder shows commitment to the company he built.
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The European Union's antitrust actions against Microsoft have freed up server software documentation for use in a major open-source project--for a fee.