March, 2008

Seven Autodesk partners celebrate silver-anniversary milestone

Heather Clancy Profile: Heather Clancy

How many high-tech vendors can still claim great channel relationships with some of their original VARs? Ones that have been with them since the very beginning of their channel program. Well, Autodesk just feted seven resellers that each recently celebrated their 25th year of doing business with...

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Microsoft in Eclipse? It could happen

Barbara Darrow Profile: badarrow

Given all of the apparent love flowing from Microsoft to its new-found open source allies and given that Microsoft's go-to open soruce guy Sam Ramji keynoted at the recent EclipseCon 2008 conference, the obvious question is: Will Microsoft join The Eclipse Foundation? Ramji listened politely and...

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Partner: VMware is ‘challenging,’ Hyper-V is coming on strong

Brendan Cournoyer Profile: Bcournoyer

This morning I spoke with David Lynch, vice president of marketing for Embotics, a VMware partner in Ottawa. I'd been trying to interview him for two recent stories on 0 Comments     RSS Feed     Email a friend

Buh-bye CRM Live

Barbara Darrow Profile: badarrow

Microsoft is about to change the branding of CRM Live before CRM Live is officially out the gate, sources say. Word is when the Microsoft-hosted customer relationship management goes fully -- um --...

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Virtual VARs

Barbara Darrow Profile: badarrow

Are you a citizen of Second Life? Does it make sense to build a business establishment in a fake world? Unclear, but some VARs, including Ira Chandler, president of Curbstone Corp.,  are aboard. Here he is. Or rather,...

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Oracle wants to be BI’s big boy

Barbara Darrow Profile: badarrow

Oracle bought Hyperion and now it wants to sell it. Direct. Through partners. Just sell it.

Hyperion's business intelligence (BI) products give the database giant a weapon to use against 0 Comments     RSS Feed     Email a friend

Could open source ISVs outprepare Microsoft stack players?

Barbara Darrow Profile: badarrow

Here's an interesting juxtaposition. On Tuesday, Microsoft's  Sam Ramji talked up the company's progress wooing open-source ISVs to 1 Comment     RSS Feed     Email a friend

Sun gets grant to develop “laser” technology

Brendan Cournoyer Profile: Bcournoyer

  "You know, Sun Microsystems has one simple request. And that is to have microchips with frickin' laser beams!"

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Dude, you’re migratin’ to Vista

Brendan Cournoyer Profile: Bcournoyer

Dell has announced its own Windows Vista migration tool, joining a growing list of vendors looking to capitalize on the complexity of deploying the...

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Does Vista need an exorcist?

Brendan Cournoyer Profile: Bcournoyer

Microsoft resellers had been looking forward to the release of Windows Vista SP1, hoping it would spur more customers to upgrade from XP. But now, just a week after SP1 debuted, that doesn't...

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