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Top officials, 50 jobs axed at Zenith
Zenith Data Systems last week began a reorganization that eliminated 50 jobs and triggered the departure of longtime federal PC marketeers Tom Buchsbaum and Pat Gallagher. In the reorganization ZDS a division of Packard Bell NEC Inc. will focus exclusively on the federal state and local government
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Compaq introduces workgroup product
Compaq Computer Corp. today announced a workgroup server featuring Pentium Pro power and prices starting at less than $3 000. Compaq is positioning its ProLiant 800 as the entrylevel product in its ProLiant server line. While the company's ProLiant 2500 and 5000 servers target departmental and ent
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Raytheon wins auction for Hughes Aircraft
Raytheon Co. last week came away the winner of a $9.5 billion bidding war for Hughes Aircraft Co. a division of Hughes Electronics Corp. In outbidding Northrop Grumman Corp. the sole competing bidder in the last week of negotiations Raytheon will pick up a full cache of federal business even beyond
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Intel chip to speed multimedia apps
Intel Corp. this week rolls out its nextgeneration MMX microprocessor which is designed to speed up multimedia applications on Pentium and Pentium Probased computers. MMX hardware and applications vendors are already poised to infuse the federal market with the new technology. MMX improves the a
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Tektronix debuts dye sublimation printer
Tektronix Inc. today announced the availability of its Phaser 450 dye sublimation printer which the company is aiming at the federal scientific and engineering markets.
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SI Outlook
Nichols Research grows IT business Nichols Research Corp. continued its winning ways last month when it captured one of four information technology services contracts awarded by the Army's Space and Strategic Defense Command.
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INDUSTRY WATCH
Navy awards workstation BPAs for Digital, HP, Sun wares A s expected, late last month the Navy established blanket purchase agreements (BPAs) for workstations and servers from Digital Equipment Corp., HewlettPackard Co. and Sun Microsystems Inc. The Tactical Advanced ComputerJoint Workstation BPA
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HP debuts upgrade to popular machine
HewlettPackard Co. today unveiled its NetServer LD Pro, a model that succeeds its bestselling Intel Corp. based PC server in the federal market.
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FAR interim rule spells out Year 2000 compliance
The General Services Administration last week issued an interim rule that elevates its "recommended" Year 2000 warranty language to the level of a governmentwide regulation. The interim rule is contained in a new Federal Acquisition Regulation Federal Acquisition Circular 45. The interim rule eff
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Product leasing gains ground in fed market
Information technology leasing a popular strategy in the commercial market for many years is emerging as an option for agencies faced with budget constraints and rapidly changing technology. To date IT leasing has been used sparingly if at all in the federal sector. In the commercial market leasing
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Agencies find Year 2000 tools market still growing
Over the last year federal agencies have become acutely aware that the approaching millennium Year 2000 may wreak havoc with software programs and cause untold headaches throughout their organizations. As these agencies scramble to fix Year 2000 problems they will find the tools market is eithe
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IBM offers new gear on SEWP II I BM Corp. recently detailed its offerings on the network data server portion of NASA's Scientific and Engineering Workstation II procurement. In October NASA selected nine contractors for its $1.8 billion SEWP II program the sequel to the popular SEWP contract.
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Asymetrix steps up federal sales with ToolBook II set
Asymetrix Corp. aims to increase its presence in the federal market targeting agencies with tools for creating computerbased training applications. The Bellevue Wash.based company markets ToolBook II a set of software tools for authoring and managing Internetbased training systems.
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Military to consolidate print shops
The Defense Automated Printing Service plans to absorb 190 military printing facilities in a consolidation the Pentagon launched last month. DAPS which was the Defense Printing Service until it was renamed in October is the military's printer.
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Navy to move $850M in services to BPAs
The Naval Information Systems Management Center has recast an $850 million indefinitedelivery indefinitequantity services procurement into what may be the government's largest servicesoriented blanket purchase agreement. NISMC is close to issuing a request for quotation for multiple BPAs accordi
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Intergraph targets feds
Intergraph Corp. is pursuing federal opportunities with a recently recast document management product line designed to improve the organization and distribution of an agency's technical information. Intergraph in September changed the name of its document management suite from DM2 to Asset and Info
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FSS to use Internet as sales reporting tool
The General Services Administration's Federal Supply Service next year will turn to the Internet to smooth the process by which schedule vendors report their quarterly sales.
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Wynd, IDP put wireless e-mail on agency pacts
Wynd Communications Corp. is working with International Data Products Corp. to bring wireless electronic mail technology to portable PC procurements. Wynd late last month announced that its WyndMail wireless email solution is available with the purchase of any IDP portable computer. IDP portables
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CGES expands its thrust into the federal market
Fresh from winning its biggest agency deal Comark Government & Education Sales Inc. is seeking to broaden its business in the federal market. In September CGES captured an estimated $50 million contract with the Census Bureau to supply notebook computers. The pact the largest indefinitedelivery in
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Lotus, Microsoft to lure feds with new 32-bit apps
The new generation of 32bit office application suites from Lotus Development Corp. and Microsoft Corp. featured prominently at the Comdex computer trade show this week will take the federal market by storm according to the vendors and their resellers. Lotus is using Comdex to introduce SmartSuite
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