Recent Articles
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HP’s PartnerOne Has the Right Stuff
Boy, what a difference a year makes. Make that six months, rather. It wasn’t that long ago—end of last summer, as a matter of fact—that I was harshly criticizing Hewlett-Packard for strong-arm tactics when dealing with its channel partners and giving them what appeared at the time to be ultimatums regarding committing more business to…
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Microsoft Issues New Partner-Hosted CRM Version
DALLAS—At its Convergence 2006 conference here, Microsoft has made few earth-shattering announcements around Software as a Service—thought by many to be a big topic at this customer-focused, business applications-based event. That said, Microsoft gave a distinct nod to on demand software with the announcement March 27 of the next version of Dynamics CRM 3.0. The…
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IBM Unearths Anti-worm Tools
IBM introduced a new intrusion detection technology dubbed Billy Goat that claims to be highly effective in battling worm viruses and other types of malicious IT threats, and in eliminating false security alarms. According to the company, Billy Goat offers organizations improved threat detection capabilities by duping outsiders into believing that it is an unprotected…
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IE Under Attack: Microsoft Ponders Emergency Patch
Malicious hackers are using hijacked Web servers and compromised sites to launch a wave of zero-day attacks against an unpatched flaw in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser. The first wave of drive-by downloads was spotted on March 25, and security experts tracking the attack say the threat is growing at a rate of 10 new malicious…
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Nvidia Seeds Businesses, Channel With Logo Program
Nvidia, in a partnership with AMD, has set out to oust Intel from the SMB channel. Nvidia has quietly contacted many of the top channel vendors and tier-2 and tier-3 system builders, attempting to put in place an Nvidia Business Platform that will certify new machines and put in place a stable image process that…
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What We Need Is More Vista Delays
Remember Windows 95? Unless you were vacationing on Pluto, you must. It was, to my recollection, the most celebrated software release of the personal computing age. The hype surrounding the release rivaled a CD release by U2 or Bruce Springsteen at the height of their popularity. Buyers lined up outside Staples and CompUSA stores at…
