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And, By Dave Linthicum Oct 20, 2007 2 mins Software Development Citrix and Dell with On-Demand Desktop Streaming Citrix is slowly starting to expand their product line into the virtualization space. First, they announced their acquisition plans for XenSource, next they revealed their channel partner strategy for its go to market plans for the XenSource product, By David Marshall Oct 20, 2007 1 min Software Development The OSS Vendor Market Will Consolidate Also A few days ago I discussed the results of IBM WebSphere's software division as a proxy to measure the much heralded death of traditional software. (Spoiler alert: It's not dying). Matt wrote: "Why is it that proprietary vendors seem to By Savio Rodrigues Oct 19, 2007 3 mins Open Source Unified Communications: an explanation of what it is You will be hearing the phrase unified communications [UC] ad nauseum over the next several years. Therefore, I am taking it upon myself to explain what I think UC is. 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