7 Biggest Stories of the Week, June 1-5
It's the moment you've been waiting for: Friday afternoon and the unveiling of The VAR Guy's seven biggest stories for the week ending June 5. So without further ado, let's get the weekend started.
June 5, 2015
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It's the moment you've been waiting for: Friday afternoon and the unveiling of The VAR Guy's seven biggest stories for the week ending June 5. So without further ado, let's get the weekend started.
Day two of HP Discover 2015 kicked off on a fun note, with Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) CEO Meg Whitman announcing the company has signed a five-year agreement with 20th Century Fox and James Cameron-owned production company Lightstorm Entertainment to integrate HP’s technology into the AVATAR movie franchise.
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Microsoft (MSFT) is hosting its annual Worldwide Partner Conference July 12-16 in Orlando, and the company has already begun previewing what attendees can expect. Hint: Remember the Mobile First, Cloud First mantra espoused by then-new CEO Satya Nadella? There’ll be more of that. But this year it’s an idea more mature and more grounded than last year.
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Here's food for interesting thought: What if the Free Software Movement had built a replacement for what became Microsoft (MSFT) Windows, rather than an operating system that eventually became the one open source fans know today as GNU/Linux? Would Bill Gates still have ended up a billionaire, and Microsoft have imposed a monopoly on the PC world?
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Now that NetApp (NTAP) has executed a change at the top–replacing ex-chairman and chief executive Tom Georgens with George Kurian, the company’s product operations executive vice president–and decided to lay off some 500 workers and hire a new channel chief, what now for the beleaguered storage platform provider?
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Intel’s (INTC) rumored takeover of Altera (ALTR), a San Jose, California-based fabless $13.4 billion maker of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), finally came to fruition on Monday after months of price haggling as the chip giant confirmed the blockbuster $16.7 billion all-cash deal.
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It's the moment you've been waiting for: Friday afternoon and the unveiling of The VAR Guy's seven biggest stories for the week ending June 5. So without further ado, let's get the weekend started.
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