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IDC: Microsoft ISVs Outperforming Peers
ISVs participating in Microsoft’s competency program are more successful than their peers, even those building on Microsoft but outside the program, according to an IDC report released in October. Microsoft ISV/Software Solutions Competency partners outperform ISVs building on alternative operating systems and those Microsoft shops working outside the program in 10 of 11 of key…
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Bundling Technology
Microsoft plans to deliver a set of new software tools designed to remove some of the pain enterprises experience when deploying and managing desktops and applications. The company is bundling four of the technologies it has acquired over the past few months into an offering known as the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance.…
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Microsoft Opens Access to Its Sender ID Spec
Microsoft has made the Sender ID framework specification for e-mail authentication available to users at no cost and with the guarantee that it will never take legal action against them. The Sender ID specification will now be available to anybody wanting to use it under Microsoft’s Open Specification Promise. The Redmond, Wash.-based software maker issued…
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Reinventing the Channel Chief
With razor-thin margins eating away at the relationship between solution providers and hardware vendors, one of the interesting questions facing the industry is: What is the future role of channel chiefs within their organization? For all intents and purposes, falling product margins have turned far too many channel chiefs into custodians whose main job is…
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Oracle Unveils Enhanced Partner Solutions Catalog
Oracle unveiled a more robust and thorough partner solutions catalog Oct. 23, enhancing and streamlining the process for customers and partners searching the software maker’s growing list of ISV solutions. The Oracle PartnerNetwork Solutions Catalog, unveiled at Oracle’s OpenWorld user conference enables searches based on specific attributes such as vertical expertise, solution type, product, customer…
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It’s Technology Fall Fashion Time
When I saw in September the first Halloween decorations in neighborhood yards, I snickered at the zealous celebrants for jumping the gun. A month later, it feels like I just saw those decorations for the first time yesterday and I am ready to concede those early celebrants were on to something: Time flies, and it’s…
