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SAP Plans RFID Roadmap for SMBs
Enterprise resource planning giant SAP AG has begun collaborating with RFID (radio-frequency identification) IP holder Intermec Technologies on new offerings meant to help companies with fewer than 100 employees meet RFID mandates from Wal-Mart, Ford Motor Company, the U.S. Department of Defense and other huge trading partners. In April, Intermec expects to ship EasyADC (Automatic…
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Microsoft Expected to Launch Small-Business Effort
Microsoft Corp. is developing a channel program targeting some of the smallest companies in the SMB (small and midsize business) space. The vendor is not going into the details of the program at this point, but a spokeswoman said an announcement is planned for Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in July in Minneapolis. The program will…
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EMC Deal Points To Downmarket Push
EMC Corp. and MTI Technology have pulled together an e-mail storage solution for a commercial real estate firm, a deal EMC cited as a model for its new and medium-sized enterprise and small business push. MTI, a storage systems integrator, installed a series of EMC products for Hartz Mountain Industries Inc. The solution is designed…
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Specialize Your Way to Success
No service provider can be all things to all customers. And certainly any service provider that stretches its technical services across too many areas usually finds itself coming up short on all fronts. Trying to be all things to all companies is a recipe for disaster for any channel company, and one designed to ultimately…
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Microsoft MVPs Say They Want Old VB Back
Microsoft Corp. is facing a revolt from some of its favored developers over the company’s support for what the developers are calling classic Visual Basic, also known as VB6 (Visual Basic 6). More than 100 Microsoft MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals) have signed an online petition calling for the company to continue to support VB6. At…
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Project Green Might Allow ASPs to offer Microsoft Apps-on-Demand
SAN DIEGO—As Project Green, the multiyear—and multiwave—plan to revamp Microsoft’s business applications around a services-oriented architecture and unified code base, takes shape, it may be only a matter of time before Microsoft enters the hosted applications services space. That possibility was discussed by Microsoft Corp. executives at the Microsoft Business Solutions Convergence show here this…
