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marimba: see xylophone xylophone (zī`ləfōn) [Gr. ..... Click the link for more information. . marimbaXylophone with resonators under each bar. The original African instrument uses tuned calabash resonators. In Mexico and Central America, where it was brought by African slaves, the wooden bars may be affixed to a frame supported by legs or hung at the player's waist. The orchestral marimba uses long metal tubes as resonators. Marimba(Marimba, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, www.marimba.com) A software company founded in 1996 by four key members of Sun's original Java development team. In 1996, it introduced Castanet, a family of Java-based delivery systems for publishing and automatically distributing application updates and other published materials via the Internet and intranets. Other Marimba products addressed the key areas of security management, infrastructure management and change and configuration management. marimba a Latin American percussion instrument consisting of a set of hardwood plates placed over tuned metal resonators, played with two soft-headed sticks in each hand How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Using Marimba security patch management, we were able to package, test, and distribute the Microsoft RPC vulnerability patch to all of our global desktop clients in a matter of hours," said Simon Bullers, global platform manager, Windows systems, at Barclays Global Investors. Marimba delivers a powerful enterprise-level solution that brings Mac users efficient and reliable software management capabilities. Marimba's migration solution is tightly integrated with industry standard tools like Symantec Ghost, which Marimba supports and resells, to image a machine and restore its settings and personality for each IT computer system. |
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