Channel Marker
May 2009
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Survey: SMBs poised to rebound when economy turns
28 May 2009 -
Neutron Jack to headline Microsoft partner event
- TechTarget 27 May 2009 -
OS choice for netbooks expands
- TechTarget 26 May 2009
Small-business owners are a remarkably resilient breed. Even though the federal government sometimes seems to be out to get them (an extra week of vacation anyone?), a new study that was conducted ...
Former General Electric poohbah, author, and Red Sox fan Jack Welch will take center stage at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans. In July. First question: Will celeb wife and ...
First there was news that Hewlett-Packard, Dell and possibly other hardware makers would consider slapping Google Android on netbooks. Last week, Intel said it's jumping into the netbook OS market ...
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Channel advocate looking for others to help preach the cause
22 May 2009 -
Top five lessons from TechEd
- TechTarget 17 May 2009 -
Google fails; panic ensues
- TechTarget 14 May 2009 -
SharePoint 2010 to join 64-bit only club
- TechTarget 12 May 2009 -
Vista who???
- TechTarget 11 May 2009 -
Can you claim the title of trusted partner?
06 May 2009 -
Ballmer's white board magic
- TechTarget 06 May 2009
Pat Taylor, a former system builder who has been a member of Intel's Premier Partner Board of Advisors for years who also has been its president for three years, wants the channel to stand up for ...
The pallid economy took its toll on TechEd 2009 attendance. But there were still lessons to be learned or reinforced. My top five: 1: Microsoft burns with Silverlight fever. This is not a good ...
The reporters in my row are agog as the Google news outage continues. Folks wanted to know which alternative search engine to use. The consensus winner was Ask.com, although Altavista and Yahoo ...
The next release of Microsoft SharePoint will leave 32-bitness behind. Microsoft dropped the news that SharePoint 2010 will be 64-bit only in its blog and at a TechEd 2009 session. The new ...
The most interesting thing--and there were several interesting things--in today's TechEd 09 keynote was Bill Veghte's words of wisdom to current Windows shops. "If you're deploying Windows Vista ...
One moniker that gets bandied about plenty in the channel, especially in times like these when everyone is trying to define their "value," is the idea that an IT solution provider should be ...
Last month, the New York Times brilliantly reproduced Steve Ballmer's white boarded vision of the company's cloud services plan. It depicts the company's "software plus services" vision with Azure ...
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Mountain to Mohammed: Oracle waives some support fees
- TechTarget 06 May 2009 -
EMC fights Donatelli departure tooth and nail
- TechTarget 05 May 2009 -
Microsoft layoffs: More shoes dropping
- TechTarget 05 May 2009 -
Will SAP maintenance move move Oracle?
- TechTarget 04 May 2009 -
Signs of life? CDW spending index shows IT growth potential
30 Apr 2009
How did this not get more ink? Oracle is waiving maintenance fees on some of its software products for up to two years. This is a baby step, granted. But it is, in fact, movement. For one thing, ...
EMC isn't taking the defection of David Donatelli to Hewlett Packard lying down. In fact it's suing to put the kibosh on the move and a Masschusetts (homer!) judge has granted a preliminary ...
TechFlash's Todd Bishop has the Steve Ballmer memo to the troops outlining the latest round of Microsoft layoffs. The cuts have been widely expected given a: the economy in general and b: ...
SAP, the ERP leader, recently decided to defer maintenance fee increases until it proves to customers that the fees are worth the money. The first question that comes to mind is if Oracle will ...
The new edition of the CDW IT Monitor, which is the national reseller's ongoing poll of IT decision makers from small and midsize companies, shows some glimpses of improvement for the second half ...