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Buy Local Promotion Gets Extension for Back-to-School

Microsoft will extend the current hardware incentive-based iteration of its Buy Local promotion for U.S. System Builders through the back-to-school season, a company executive said this week.

Mule ESB Partner Program Launched

MuleSource Inc. has started a Partner Alliance Program based on Mule, an open source enterprise service bus (ESB) solution. The program enables qualified channel partners to gain access to the Mule customer base.

Windows Server 2008 CTP Released

The CTP release makes it appear increasingly likely that the successor to Windows Server 2003 will be shipped early next year.

Google Takes Enterprise Search Appliances to the Channel

Consumer search giant Google is entering a partnership with Ingram Micro Inc. to distribute the Google Search Appliance and the Google Mini, according to a Google blog entry on Wednesday.

A Change in Climate in Redmond

The Worldwide Partner Group reorganizes for fiscal year 2008.

Microsoft Buys All of Engyro, Part of Dundas

Two Microsoft partners closed deals to join Microsoft or to sell their intellectual property to the software giant.

New Views on Vista

Results of CDW's survey of 753 U.S. IT decision-makers.

UPDATED: Vista Desktop Search Fight Gets Uglier

The Microsoft-Google spitting match over desktop search is getting wetter every day, with Google now claiming that Microsoft's remedies don't go far enough, and Microsoft arguing that Google has a bad case of sour grapes.

Apple iPhone Hype Machine in Overdrive

Even for a company that's mastered the art of product-launch hoopla, Apple Inc. appears to have pulled out all the stops to propel iPhone hysteria into the stratosphere.

Microsoft Product Roadmap Overhauled in Orlando

Updates announced at the show included the names for the next versions of SQL Server and Visual Studio and new details about the next releases of Windows Server.

Masters of Disaster

Partners do their best to help customers survive the worst.

IT Customer Service Tune-Up

CompTIA has launched a new Customer Service Excellence Program (CSEP) for companies with more than 100 IT service representatives.

Terracotta Adds to IBM WebSphere Support

Terracotta has bolstered its clustering infrastructure software for Java applications. The company issued an announcement that its Terracotta 2.4 solution, released in May of this year, now supports IBM's WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (CE), which is an open source enterprise server solution.

Judge Sides With Microsoft in Vista Search Complaint

A federal judge has sided with Microsoft in Google's most recent complaint that Microsoft remedies to open Vista search up to competitors don't go far enough.

Oracle 4Q Profit Surges 23 Percent

Oracle Corp.'s fiscal fourth-quarter profit rose 23 percent as the business software maker harvested more sales from the crop of customers picked up in a $25 billion shopping spree that has buried much of its competition.

Quest Buying ScriptLogic

Database, application and Windows-management solutions provider Quest Software will acquire ScriptLogic, a provider of Windows-based network management solutions, for roughly $90 million in cash.

Tidal Rolls Out SOA Monitoring Solution

Tidal Software has released the latest version of its performance monitoring solution that maps applications, traces business processes and tracks service-level agreements in a service-oriented architecture (SOA).

New Domains in Works at Internet Meeting

New Internet addresses, including those entirely in foreign languages, are under review by a key oversight agency, although meetings this week in Puerto Rico are likely to conclude with more questions.

Novell Enhances Real-Time Linux

Shipping next month, a maintenance update for Novell's SuSE Linux Enterprise Real Time will enhance the operating system's performance, incorporate high-availability storage and processor support, and provide support for the Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) 1.2 server and storage connectivity standard.

Composite Enhances Data Virtualization for SOAs

Composite Software is releasing version 4.5 of its Java-based Composite Information Server (CIS) product. In addition, the company is introducing a new product that works with its server to help scale data service deployments called Composite Active Cluster.