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Microsoft Wants More from Its ISV Channel for Vista
The 80-20 rule doesn’t work out exactly in Microsoft’s ISV channel. The fabled maxim of vendor channels that states 80 percent of revenue is typically driven by 20 percent of partners is stumped when it gets to Redmond, Wash., where the Microsoft ISV channel squeezes 80 percent of its revenue out of less than 3…
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OnForce’s Gilroy to Step Down by January
Kevin Gilroy, CEO of OnForce announced on Oct. 23 that he will leave the company at the end of December, barely a year into his tenure. Gilroy will remain a shareholder and a “strategic advisor” to the company, which operates an online marketplace for IT services, the company said in a prepared statement. Gilroy joined…
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Open-Source Firms Reward Developers with Xboxes
What does it take to get an open-source developer to write a piece of software code or perhaps find and fix bugs in a company’s existing code? A Microsoft Xbox, it appears. Just ask Stormy Peters, an original founder of Hewlett-Packard’s Open Source Program Office and currently the director of project management at OpenLogic, which…
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Microsoft Finally Reveals Plans for Upgrades to Vista
Microsoft has finally revealed the much anticipated details of its program to let customers who buy a PC that is Windows Vista capable over the holiday season upgrade to the new operating system. Microsoft officials have said they are on track for a release of Vista to volume license business customers in November, and to…
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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.…
