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...threat from upstart software firms that are providing clients with content-management tools to go it alone. Hewlett-Packard, for instance, licenses software from GlobalSight, based in San Jose, Calif., to manage translation for its hp.com websites in 72 countries. And for its multilingual tech-support sites itrc.hp.com) HP uses software from Uniscape, based in Sunnyvale, Calif. HP hires its own free-lance translators for both sites. It retains control of its "translation memory," the database of proprietary language that has already been translated. "Leaving it in the hands of a vendor is a big risk," says Alison Toon...
CHEAP $1,050 HP PAVILION 7935 There are lower-priced machines but not many with this kind of high performance. Hewlett-Packard's best value includes a superfast 1.3-GHz AMD Athlon chip, Polk Audio speakers and a built-in CD burner. Better still, through Jan. 5, a $150 rebate on the PC-and-monitor combo pushes the system price down to a very merry $900. www.hpshopping.com...
...revenue; in the second quarter of 2001 it made up 25%, and it is expected to reach 30% in two years, compared with 50% from hardware. "EMC sets the bar," Duplessie says. "By the time others reach the bar, EMC has already moved somewhere else." Sun Microsystems, HP and IBM, however, believe they are well positioned because they already sell comprehensive packages of hardware, software and services...
...competes with Veritas in data replication, and the two are expected to compete even more as EMC moves into storage-management software. Veritas, which is often sold along with EMC, Sun, IBM or HP systems, runs its programs off storage hardware and the servers that make up enterprises' local-area networks. For that reason and because it does not have a vested interest in selling any hardware of its own, Veritas is compatible with many brands. EMC, on the other hand, already boasts the largest companies as its customers. EMC says its software will eventually manage others' equipment...
...Sept. 25, HP, which has a partnership with cabinetmaker Hitachi, completed its $310 million purchase of StorageApps, a company based in Bridgewater, N.J., that competes with Veritas in making tools that allow companies to pool their storage devices and access unused space. Last month EMC bought Luminate Software of Redwood City, Calif.--its seventh software acquisition in nearly two years...