August 25, 2009 12:56 AM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
BEA Systems,
IT channel products and technologies,
JBoss,
Oracle,
PeopleSoft,
Red HatEverytime 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? Continued »
August 24, 2009 1:11 AM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Channel,
high-tech channel,
incentive,
IT Channel,
NetSuite,
SaaSNever 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 Only NetSuite's target is out-of-date hardware and software that businesses may be running on site.
August 20, 2009 9:48 AM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
extended terms,
financing,
Randy Cochran,
SymantecHigh-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 short-term program that is intended for partners that have made the effort to earn its
August 20, 2009 3:23 AM
Posted by: badarrow
analyst relations,
ARC program,
Barbara Darrow,
IT channel products and technologies,
Microsoft,
partner programVendor 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...
August 19, 2009 8:34 AM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
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, there is one very tangible way that technology solution providers can participate in the dialogue...
August 18, 2009 4:18 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
CTPs,
Exchange Server 2010,
IT channel products and technologies,
Microsoft,
SQL Azure database,
SQL Server 2008 R2Microsoft 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 component of SQL Server 2008 R2,...
August 13, 2009 3:19 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
IT channel products and technologies,
Microsoft,
Office 2010It 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 through...
August 13, 2009 2:20 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
IT channel products and technologies,
Windows Server 2008 R2So 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...
