Recent Articles
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Vista/SUSE Smackdown
In one corner, we have the champ—Windows. Come January, it will come out swinging with what Microsoft tells us is the latest and greatest version ever—Vista. In the other corner, we have the challenger—OpenSUSE 10.1, the latest shipping version of Novell/SUSE’s community Linux. Sometime this summer, its commercial version, SUSE Linux Enterprise 10, will come…
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N-able Reporting Reminds MSP Clients What They’ve Bought
N-able Technologies’ new N-Compass reporting tool delivers customizable reports, so managed service providers can demonstrate why they no longer feel the pain of downtime or service calls. The reporting tool and similar means from N-able’s competitors are crucial to MSPs trying to remind clients who no longer see their VAR’s engineers tinkering in the server…
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What Retailers Don’t Tell Consumers
Theory: The Web is the great equalizer and, given the opportunity to access comprehensive, accurate and unbiased information about products they want to buy, consumers will choose to buy the products that are best for them, given price, features and various other details. But is that really the case? It’s clear that the larger retailers…
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Solution Provider Helps Marines Prepare for Overseas Missions
They train for weeks, learning combat and disarmament skills, educating themselves in psychological and physical warfare—as well as foreign languages and cultures. In fact, while they are the few and the proud, even the Marines can need help when it comes to assimilating and operating in a foreign land, dealing with different languages and ways…
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Dell Is No Apple
PC maker Dell’s decision to open two inventory-less retail stores this summer reminds me of a scene in the recent hit comedy “The 40-Year-Old Virgin.” The protagonist’s love interest runs a store that does nothing but sell items on eBay. When a potential customer comes in trying to buy something, the owner has a hard…
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Analyst: Lenovo Struggles in the Channel
Part of Lenovo’s North American sales slump can be blamed on a failure to engage the channel, said Leslie Fiering, a global computing and notebook computer analyst at Gartner. “The company is not selling enough product, that’s the bottom line,” Fiering said. “They haven’t demonstrated that they know how to use the channel. They recognize…
