7 Biggest Stories of the Week, Sept. 7-11
September 11, 2015
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Welcome to the end of another week! Sometimes it seems as though the short weeks are the toughest. We're ready to relax, but not before we offer up The VAR Guy's seven biggest stories for the week ending Sept. 11.
In the next move to capture an enterprise audience for Surface, Microsoft (MSFT) this week launched its Surface Enterprise initiative with a deal in which Dell, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) and IT consultant Accenture and its joint venture Avanade will resell the Surface Pro in varying capacities to business customers in North America.
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Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) is considering selling its TippingPoint network security business for up to $300 million, in another move to divest itself of lines of business that don’t fit into either of its two, soon-to-be separate corporate entities.
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The MATE Desktop Environment, which began as an effort to save GNOME 2 from oblivion, continues to evolve. Now, the open source interface for Linux operating systems is adding novel features of its own, a sign that it has come far since its humble beginnings.
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Security infrastructure developer Skyport Systems has appointed former Hewlett-Packard executive Art Gilliland as CEO, responsible for leading the fledgling company following its latest round of funding and the implementation of its new Global Channel Partner Program.
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Signaling a major shift in how IBM (IBM) plans to go about both building and integrating applications, IBM today announced it has acquired StrongLoop, a provider of application development framework based on Node.js that makes use of JavaScript running on both the client and server to execute code.
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Signaling a major shift in how IBM (IBM) plans to go about both building and integrating applications, IBM today announced it has acquired StrongLoop, a provider of application development framework based on Node.js that makes use of JavaScript running on both the client and server to execute code.
Read the story here.
Welcome to the end of another week! Sometimes it seems as though the short weeks are the toughest. We're ready to relax, but not before we offer up The VAR Guy's seven biggest stories for the week ending Sept. 11.
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