March 18, 2010 5:35 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
IBM,
IT channel products and services,
Jerry York,
Lou GerstnerJerry York, the legendary numbers guy who played key roles at GM, IBM, Apple and other fortune 500 giants, died today. The cause was reported to be an
March 17, 2010 3:29 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Heather Clancy,
IT channel products and services,
mobility,
Motorola,
Motorola PartnerEmpowerEmpowerment is one of those words that gets thrown around a lot these days, but I really love that Motorola has decided to call upon this theme as the name of its expansive new program for folks rallying around their enterprise mobility and communications technologies. It's called, simply,
March 12, 2010 3:30 AM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Heather Clancy,
IT channel products and services,
Symantec channelMost technology vendors talk the talk about why partner-to-partner collaboration is so important for their channel. Symantec continues to encourage it through its referral program, which has now been in place for about a year.
March 11, 2010 4:59 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
ERP,
IT channel products and services,
Microsoft,
NetSuiteThings are getting good in mid-market ERP--a segment that could use some caffeination.
Microsoft is offering NetSuite shops $850 per user in credit to move to its ERP lines. The money goes to end users--presumably the partner benefit would come from implementation work involved in...
March 10, 2010 7:06 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
ERP,
IT channel products and technologies,
Jodi Uecker-Rust,
Microsoft,
Robert Deshaies,
Sage SoftwareEmbarrassing to have missed this one but Robert Deshaies, once a channel exec at Microsoft, is now at Sage Software. Sage competes with Microsoft ERP and CRM...
March 5, 2010 4:28 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Haiti,
IT channel products and technologies,
Oracle,
Salesforce.comOracle wants to raise $1 million for Haiti relief at the upcoming BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif.
The "Hit for Haiti" event will feature tennis greats Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Martina Navratilova, Steffie Graf, Lindsay Davenport, Martina...
March 5, 2010 3:50 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Elliot,
IP,
IT channel products and services,
Novell,
patents,
UnixNovell, trying to calm the roiled waters over an unexpected buyout bid, sought to reassure partners that it's "business as usual."
That was the message in an email sent by Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian...
March 2, 2010 7:34 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Android,
Barbara Darrow,
iPhone,
IT channel products and technologies,
Microsoft,
Windows Mobile,
Windows Phone 7Microsoft has gone back to square one on its mobile phone effort--the new Windows Phone 7 Series bears little resemblance to its predecessor.
That's a good thing. The Windows mobile debacle- which...
February 23, 2010 8:43 PM
Posted by: badarrow
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Adrian Jones,
Barbara Darrow,
HP,
IT channel products and services,
Stephen DiFrancoChannel sources have speculated for months about who will replace Adrian Jones as top channel poobah at HP. In the last week, speculation narrowed down to candidates from IBM, but the winner looks to be...
