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Jim Manico, OWASP Global Board Member

March 19, 2008

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Sun Microsystems wants to better serve the SMB market, with plans to use CDW as its preferred vehicle to do so.The Santa Clara, Calif.-based vendor is making available to businesses of up to 1,000 employees a wide portfolio of its server, storage and software products. Those include its entry-level SPARC processor-based servers and StorageTek arrays; operating systems including Solaris 10, Windows and Linux; and its MySQL open-source database.

SMBs can purchase directly from Sun or any value-added reseller -- some of whom expressed dismay that Sun is recommending CDW to customers to fulfill their purchases. That said, Sun has added an online partner locator feature on its Web site to help potential customers find any of the vendor's local channel partners.ChannelWeb

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About the Author

Jim Manico

OWASP Global Board Member

Jim Manico is a Global Board Member for the OWASP foundation where he helps drive the strategic vision for the organization. OWASP's mission is to make software security visible, so that individuals and organizations worldwide can make informed decisions about true software security risks. OWASP's AppSecUSA<https://2015.appsecusa.org/c/> conferences represent the nonprofit's largest outreach efforts to advance its mission of spreading security knowledge, for more information and to register, see here<https://2015.appsecusa.org/c/?page_id=534>. Jim is also the founder of Manicode Security where he trains software developers on secure coding and security engineering. He has a 18 year history building software as a developer and architect. Jim is a frequent speaker on secure software practices and is a member of the JavaOne rockstar speaker community. He is the author of Iron-Clad Java: Building Secure Web Applications<http://www.amazon.com/Iron-Clad-Java-Building-Secure-Applications/dp/0071835881> from McGraw-Hill and founder of Brakeman Pro. Investor/Advisor for Signal Sciences.

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