Channel Marker
June 2010
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Oracle to VARs: Specialize
- TechTarget 29 Jun 2010 -
Inspiration for tech legal eagles
29 Jun 2010 -
Helping Sun hardware VARs take the Oracle leap
- TechTarget 29 Jun 2010
So, if you're an Oracle VAR (or a Sun VAR wanting to become an Oracle VAR) here's what you gotta do: Specialize. That word came down from on high Tuesday afternoon at an Oracle Partner Network web ...
If you have never thought about targeting law firms as a potential customer segment, you might want to take a look at a new survey conducted by CompTIA, the self-billed non-profit trade association ...
Arrow ECS yesterday unveiled a Fast Track program to help Sun hardware VARs move into the Oracle Partner Network (OPN). This is no easy task, since no one outside of Oracle appears to know ...
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Symantec Survey: Security is biggest SMB tech worry, mobility bigger factor
25 Jun 2010 -
Oracle turns the screw on Sun hardware support
- TechTarget 25 Jun 2010 -
Allison Watson leaves partner role at Microsoft
- TechTarget 24 Jun 2010 -
Oracle nixes HP Solaris contract
- TechTarget 18 Jun 2010 -
Quick video refresher on new Microsoft competencies
09 Jun 2010 -
Whoops! Oracle/Sun not looking so profitable after all
- TechTarget 08 Jun 2010 -
Oracle Sun hardware support policies already wearing thin
- TechTarget 07 Jun 2010
What, me worry? In stark contrast to just 15 months ago, the 2010 Global SMB Information Protection Survey from Symantec finds that small and midsize businesses rank "protecting their information" ...
News from the field is that as of Monday, Oracle will no longer accept any purchase orders on Sun (er Oracle) hardware that do not include support. This shouldn't come as a surprise given the Sun ...
Two Microsoft corporate VPs are swapping places. Allison Watson, who has been the worldwide partner chief at Microsoft for eight years, is moving into a new marketing role at the software giant. ...
You had to see this one coming. The Register reports that Oracle has deep-sixed Hewlett-Packard's ability to sell/support Solaris running on X-64-based HP hardware. Given that Oracle has said it ...
OK, so probably many of you have made your arrangement to fly to Washington, D.C., for the annual Microsoft worldwide partner conference. Last year, the company announced a whole set of new ...
Remember when Larry Ellison chastised analysts and reporters for forecasting that Oracle would decimate Sun Microsystems headcount? Oracle was hiring, not firing, he said. And, remember Ellison ...
Hewlett-Packard, IBM and yes--even Cisco Systems--hope to make hay out of Oracle's decision to boost support price on Sun hardware. And there's no shortage of Sun VARs who claim--off the ...
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Cloud computing craze could oust certain VARs
- TechTarget 03 Jun 2010 -
Autodesk: Partner ranks growing because of clean-tech activities
01 Jun 2010
A few months ago, I wrote about the bright future of cloud computing services. Many experts agreed that the demand for cloud computing platforms and applications would continue to increase, and ...
I have covered the technology and channel programs of Autodesk, the giant design, modeling and visualization software company, for what feels like a very, very long time. In my personal opinion, ...