September 24, 2008 1:27 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Direct reseller channel conflict,
Enterprise applications,
IT channel products and technologies,
Leading technology vendors,
Oracle,
Software as a service (SaaS),
Vendor partner business issues1: Trade shows aren't dead. (Sorry Rivka.) The crowds at Moscone Center ---ALL of Moscone Center -- are bigger than remembered. Of course it's been two years since I covered the event and in that time,...
September 24, 2008 12:08 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
IT channel products and technologies,
Microsoft,
News,
SMB,
Tech BlogsThe RTM version of Microsoft Small Business Server 2008 is posted to Microsoft's TechNet and MSDN for subscribers. Some subscribers that is. A few subsets of that population still cannot...
September 23, 2008 4:07 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Channel,
IT channel products and technologies,
OracleSearchOracle.com's Barney Beal pointed out the big 'X Is Coming' signs that have sprouted up in and around Moscone Center at Oracle OpenWorld today.
In this case, X must equal the game-changing,...
September 22, 2008 10:54 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
IT channel products and technologies,
OracleSpeculation at Oracle OpenWorld continued to swirl around what Larry Ellison will say Wednesday. In the past two earnings calls, the Oracle CEO has hinted (not very subtly) about a
September 22, 2008 1:10 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Collaboration software,
IT channel products and technologies,
News,
Oracle,
Software as a service (SaaS),
VirtualizationIt looks like Oracle is embracing "the cloud."
At Oracle OpenWorld on Monday, the two Chucks -- Oracle president Charles Phillips and executive vice president Chuck Rozwat--said Oracle is making...
September 21, 2008 7:40 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Channel partner programs,
Enterprise applications,
IT channel products and technologies,
Leading technology vendors,
News,
Oracle,
VAR training, certificationThe Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) kick off to Oracle OpenWorld was bigger than ever. And there was some news, other than Ted Bereswill's move from the direct sales side of the house (The dark side? I kid!...
September 21, 2008 1:00 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Channel partner programs,
Enterprise applications,
Leading technology vendors,
News,
Oracle,
Vendor partner business issuesMost Oracle OpenWorld attendees are still shaking the sleep out of their eyes but there's already news.
Ted Bereswill, who had headed up North American technology sales (that is database and...
September 21, 2008 11:58 AM
Posted by: rivkalittle
Application development,
Cisco,
Collaboration software,
Email -- Exchange, Outlook,
Enterprise applications,
IBM,
Microsoft,
Networking technology,
News,
Novell,
Open-source,
Software as a service (SaaS)Cisco Systems has acquired open source instant messaging and presence company Jabber less than a month after it picked up e-mail and calendaring software provider PostPath. The move signifies Cisco’s ongoing moves to reach out of the network and onto the desktop.
Terms of the deal have not yet...
September 19, 2008 2:31 PM
Posted by: rivkalittle
Cisco,
Enterprise applications,
Information technology services,
Networking technology,
Novell,
Open-source,
VoIP over IP (VoIP)I was truly confused Wednesday morning when I jumped off the bus near the Jacob Javits Center in New York for Interop and saw armies of tight skirts and multi-colored stilettos trotting up the ramp to the convention center. This is not IT conference wear. These are not tech rats. No...
