Channel Marker
August 2009
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Partnerpedia merges community, PRM features
27 Aug 2009 -
Next for Oracle: Red Hat?
- TechTarget 24 Aug 2009 -
NetSuite gives new meaning to 'cash for clunkers' program
23 Aug 2009
A company called Constructive has created a sort of hybrid between traditional high-tech partner relationship management (PRM) systems and partner community portals. Its free open platform, called ...
Everytime you think Oracle has had its fill of M&A, Larry Ellison whips out the corporate checkbook and buys something new. So why not Red Hat? Among the company's big-ticket purchases, Siebel ...
Never one to miss a good marketing opportunity, NetSuite has stolen a page from the U.S. federal government's "Cash for Clunkers" incentive initiative. Only NetSuite's target is out-of-date ...
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Sun-Oracle deal moves closer to fruition
- TechTarget 22 Aug 2009 -
Symantec ties new extended financing to SMB skills
20 Aug 2009 -
VARs laud Microsoft ARC pilot
- TechTarget 19 Aug 2009 -
Even if you don't think much of Web 2.0, it's good to know the security ramifications
19 Aug 2009 -
It's raining Microsoft previews
- TechTarget 18 Aug 2009 -
More on Office 2010 timeline
- TechTarget 13 Aug 2009 -
What's the dealio behind Exchange 2007 snafu?
- TechTarget 13 Aug 2009
It would have been great to go to Avnet Technology Solutions' annual Sun confab last week, especially given what's going on with Oracle's $7.4 acquisition bid for Sun. According to ITbusiness, ...
High-tech vendors have been pretty creative this year about establishing new financing options for partners that have been hit hard by the credit crunch. Now, Symantec has started up a new ...
Vendor partner programs are very big on training VARs on the latest-and-greatest vendor technologies--where they fall short is in helping partners with their overall business strategy. A Microsoft ...
This has been a very social summer. While many (it will soon be just "some," I hope) VARs still pooh-pooh the notion that social media or social networks will mean all that much to their business, ...
Microsoft posted a raft of software previews today, including the CTPs or community technology previews for SQL Server Azure Database bits and SQL Server StreamInsight. The latter will be a ...
It looks like Office 2010 is on track for its first-half of 2010 delivery. According to documents shared with some TAP participants, milestones are slated for the end of each month from November ...
So why didn't Microsoft prioritize Exchange Server 2007 to run on Windows Server 2008 R2? Is it the inherent PowerShell incompatibilities? A conspiracy? What??? Here are some thoughts.
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Microsoft fires up CTP generator with latest SQL Server
- TechTarget 10 Aug 2009 -
Rivals eye Sun partners, customers
- TechTarget 04 Aug 2009
The CTP of SQL Server 2008 R2 is now available Community Technical Previews have become an inevitable, incremental step in the Microsoft trudge towards availability. VARs can download the CTP and ...
To say that competitors are circling Sun Microsystems' customers and partners like vultures is probably overstating the case. But not by much. Two very large Sun Microsystems' rivals are actively ...