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 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 18, 2008 11:56 AM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Channel partner programs,
Direct reseller channel conflict,
News,
Software as a service (SaaS),
Vendor partner business issuesAs with any divorce, there are a number of factors behind the imminent split between NetSuite and Skyytek, one of the largest, if not the largest,
September 16, 2008 9:14 PM
Posted by: badarrow
NewsYou think you've had a bad week? You should talk to Sam Haffar.
Haffar is the president and co-CEO of Computex, Inc., a Houston-based solution provider specializing. Yes. Houston. And he, like everyone there, is digging out after Hurricane...
September 16, 2008 6:14 PM
Posted by: Bcournoyer
Microsoft,
News,
Novell,
Virtualization,
VMwareLAS VEGAS -- I just left a Q&A session with VMware CEO Paul Maritz, where I asked him about the "poker chip" guerrilla marketing campaign that Microsoft launched this morning at...
September 16, 2008 5:25 PM
Posted by: Bcournoyer
News,
Virtualization,
VMwareLAS VEGAS -- VMware's cruel summer lent a bit of intrigue to this morning's keynote address at VMworld: What, if anything, would new CEO Paul Maritz say about the departure of co-founders Diane Greene and Mendel Rosenblum?
As you'll recall, back in July, EMC CEO Joe Tucci fired Greene in front of...
