Recent Articles
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Vista Reality Check
When Microsoft launched Windows Vista, many analysts predicted modest adoption, but not this slow. The operating system has failed every measure of success except one—the number of license shipments. At the close of Microsoft’s fiscal-2008 first quarter Sept. 30, Vista license shipments topped 88 million. But licenses shipped aren’t licenses deployed by enterprises or sold…
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An IT Friend in Need
One of the numerous highlights of a recent eWEEK survey of solution providers’ business practices was that when it comes to winning new business, many prefer to target the executive management team of a prospective client rather than the IT department. This makes sense on two levels. Sometimes there is no real IT department to…
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Scanners, OCR Make Good ROI Sense for Small Biz
There is still a lot of paper in business—forms, contracts and templates to correspondence and even e-mail—especially for small businesses who find the investments in a paperless office hard to swallow. But the potential savings from converting much of the hard copies to digital copies can make a clear case for adding a scanner and…
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Novell’s Linux Income Increases
After an unexpected delay of eight days, Novell finally announced its financial results for its fourth fiscal quarter and 2007 fiscal year, which ended Oct. 31, 2007. Novell reported net revenue for the overall year of $932 million, a loss of $26 million or 8 cents per share, although the company also reported 69 percent…
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Marketing Programs Vary Widely Among VARs
While many solution providers believe that increased market share and new customers will be important drivers for their growth next year, many observers say that VARs don’t do as good a job as they think they do or that they could do with marketing. That may be because of shifting and differing goals between what…
