March 25, 2010 5:17 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Android,
Barbara Darrow,
Cisco,
Droid,
DVI,
Google,
iPhone,
IT channel products and services,
Microsoft,
SearchITChannel.com advisory board,
Virtualization
While many VARs may not agree with the now-approved healthcare legislation, those with a healthcare bent see it as a potential goldmine. This according to one member of the SearchITChannel.com Advisory board. Here are the top five takeways from yesterday's quarterly advisory board...
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 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 15, 2010 4:49 PM
Posted by: NicoleH
Hyper-V,
IT channel products and services,
Microsoft,
Nicole Harding,
SearchSystemsChannel,
server virt,
Virtualization,
VMware,
vSphereI recently read an article titled, “Nine reasons why the whole Hyper-V vs....
February 4, 2010 7:44 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Azure,
Barbara Darrow,
Bill Veghte,
cloud computing,
Dick Brass,
IT channel products and services,
Microsoft,
Mike Nash,
Ray Ozzie,
Steven SinofskyWhile it may not be facing a Toyota-like crisis of confidence, Microsoft's got big problems.
Today, Dick Brass, a former exec who headed up Microsoft's ill-fated tablet PC efforts, turned a spotlight on the company's "Issues", in a brutal New York Times Op Ed...
January 12, 2010 1:50 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
i4i,
IT channel products and services,
IT channel products and technologies,
Microsoft,
Microsoft Office,
Office 2007,
patent infringement,
Word 2007So, remember when Microsoft said it could pull the copies of Word 2007 and Office 2007 that ran afoul of a legal ruling and replace them with non-offending versions in time for a...
January 4, 2010 5:45 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Apple,
Barbara Darrow,
dotcom bust,
Google,
HP,
IBM,
iPhone,
IT channel products and services,
Microsoft,
Open-source,
Vista,
y2k bugFace it, the first decade of the 21st century was a bummer. As it closes, it's time for the obligatory look at the major IT stories of the aughts. Based on a completely unscientific survey of VARs and colleagues, here are the biggest stories of the that painful decade.
1: The fizz (and...